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Science News
August 9, 2003 |
TimeLine: August 5, 1933 A million years of man... Universe began expanding few billion years ago... Floating lands called poor explanation of ice ages   |
Science News
July 17, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Waring Experiments The different ways of expressing whole numbers as sums of parts has long fascinated both professional and amateur mathematicians. |
Science News
April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Science News
December 7, 2002 |
TimeLine: December 3, 1932 New scientific high-speed photography can take 13 "frames" of motion pictures in a fortieth of a second... Super-radium supplied energy for rapid cosmic evolution... Neutron, element zero, may gain place in periodic table |
Science News
July 21, 2007 |
Timeline: From the July 17, 1937, issue Tung trees in America... Oil shortage may hit U.S. During next twenty years... New principle of nature about to be discovered... |
Science News
April 14, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Euler's Beautiful Equation Leonhard Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, was born 300 years ago on April 15, 1707. He discovered the equation e ip = -1. |
Wired
December 2002
Gregg Easterbrook |
The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians. |
Science News
May 11, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Song-and-Dance Fermat Fermat's Last Tango, a musical based on the story of Fermat's last theorem and the quest to prove it, is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavor... |
Science News
January 26, 2002 |
TimeLine: January 23, 1932 Floodlights illuminate London's Tower Bridge... Anemia treated by injection of liver extract into vein... New speed record established by distant part of the universe... |
Scientific American
April 2006
Jim Holt |
Beyond the Standard Model Book Reviews: Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall... The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind... etc. |
Science News
February 10, 2007 |
Timeline: From the February 6, 1937, issue Real flood cause lay off the Southeast coast... Bending of light may help scientists find remote objects... |
Science News
October 13, 2001 |
TimeLine: October 10, 1931 X-rays find new beauties for students of flowers... Scientist says universe is actually exploding... Harmless chemical proving effective as cleansing agent... |
Science News
November 29, 2003 |
TimeLine: November 25, 1933 Steel towers go up and down to speed survey of country... Cosmic collapses held cause of birth of spiral nebulae... Long-known chemical found to be most versatile solvent... |
Scientific American
September 2006
George Johnson |
The Inelegant Universe Two new books argue that it is time for string theory to give way: The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin... Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit... |
Reason
April 2002
Gregory Benford |
Leaping the Abyss Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe... |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
David Appell |
Math = beauty + truth / (really hard) Explaining what the winners of the world's top awards in mathematics actually do isn't as easy as adding 2+2. But we'll give it a try. |
Science News
May 10, 1930 |
TimeLine: May 10, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Cannon-Ball Tree... New Picture of Universe Painted... Chemical Action in Brain Studied... |
Scientific American
July 2005
George Musser |
Flaw of Averages Is ordinary matter causing the cosmos to accelerate? |
Science News
January 27, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 24, 1931 Einstein discusses revolution he caused in scientific thought... Women remember pleasant events, men unpleasant... |
Wired
September 2006
Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
