Physics Archive

The Forgotten Political Genius of Philip Roth

newsonthego | June 2, 2018

American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands full in trying to understand, and then describe, and then make credible much of the American

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How the Trump Show Gets Old

newsonthego | April 26, 2018

On September 20, 2004, the director of the Museum of Television & Radio in Los Angeles welcomed a packed crowd to an evening discussion “featuring the two people

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Trump, Macron call for new nuclear deal with Iran

newsonthego | April 25, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron and his American counterpart Donald Trump called jointly Tuesday for a new nuclear deal with Iran, after the US leader denounced the three-year-old accord

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Trump hurls more barbs at Comey

newsonthego | April 22, 2018

President Trump took up his smartphone Saturday to fire fresh salvos at former FBI director James Comey, whose secret memos about his 2017 meetings with Trump were released

Inside the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector, at the top and bottom of the detector, arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) can detect a single photon of light inside. These faint signals of light can tell physicists whether they have detected the unique signature of a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle or WIMP.

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Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness

newsonthego | August 31, 2016

Physics has missed a long-scheduled appointment with its future—again. The latest, most sensitive searches for the particles thought to make up dark matter—the invisible stuff that may comprise

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World’s Smartest Physicist Thinks Science Can’t Crack Consciousness

newsonthego | August 23, 2016

Some mind-ponderers, notably philosopher Colin McGinn, argue that consciousness is unsolvable. Philosopher Owen Flanagan calls these pessimists “mysterians,” after the 60’s-era rock group “Question Mark and the Mysterians.”