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Promoting the LHC with a New Age video

Last Friday I received an e-mail entitled “LHC video by Bob Dylan’s son.” When I clicked on the link inside, I thought the link was out of date. What appeared on my screen was not the Large Hadron...

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The life and fate of a Soviet physicist

On 10 November 1937 during the Great Purge, Joseph Stalin’s secret police executed Lev Shubnikov on trumped-up charges of treason. Although he was only 36 at the time, Shubnikov had already made...

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What’s in a name?

Juliet answered her famous rhetorical question with: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo, her besotted interlocutor, promptly agreed. But the recent kerfuffle over...

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Waves, whales, and cosmic neutrinos

Waves appear early in most university physics courses. Richard Feynman introduced them halfway through the first volume of his Lectures on Physics. And if I remember correctly, my first term at...

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The ingenuity of experimenters

The forerunner of the steam engine was the pressure cooker—or steam digester, as its inventor Denis Papin (1647–1712) called it. By keeping water in its liquid state at temperatures higher than its...

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Fashionable physics

One of my favorite physicist bloggers, Doug Natelson of Rice University, once observed with mock exasperation: I used to think that I was the only condensed matter physicist not working on graphene....

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Zapping zircons

Fans of Physics Today's Facebook page occasionally send me messages, most of which are requests for more information about something to do with physics. The one I received on Monday was no exception. A...

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The case of the radioactive tuna

Earlier this week, a friend of mine posted a link on Facebook to a blog post entitled “Radioactive bluefin tuna caught off California coast.” As a keen consumer of sushi, she was alarmed. As a...

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