Computer scientists develop model for studying arrangements of t...

Harvard Physicist Christopher Stubbs to Give Two...
Christopher Stubbs, Chair of the Physics Department at Harvard University, will give two George B. Pegram Lectures — April 12 and 13 — both at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall at Brookhaven Lab.

Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor...
(University of Washington) A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as the systems become widespread in...

Scientists Find Signs of "Snowball Earth" Amidst...
Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a "snowball Earth" event long suspected to have taken place...

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness
In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum...

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to...
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we...