The Blog of Phyz

If you're not signed up for Arbor Scientific's CoolStuff newsletter , you might have missed this. The newly-opened Volgograd Bridg...

The 2010 STAR scores are now live. The high-flying Physics CST scores continue to climb. Here's the statewide skinny: 72,766 student...

Keep a browser tab refreshed at the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) website . I'll post an update when the 2010 results are up...

I never liked those Scientific Method posters. Or the equivalent lists that occupied Chapter One of so many science textbooks. They seemed t...

My brother, his wife, and I were hiking the strenuous and perilous Angel's Landing trail in Zion National Park earlier this week. Ph...

The AAPT's 2010 Summer Meeting in Portland was another sip from the fire hose. Much more to see and do than can be fit into the brief wi...

A prominent string theory physicist says so.

When it comes to closely held beliefs, facts often don't matter. At all. Research from The University of Michigan suggests that people ...

The Amazing Meeting 8 is coalescing. Attendees are arriving at the South Point. The Del Mar is filling with skeptics from around the world. ...

From Britain's Orange : A bus company in China has launched a new 'drive safely' campaign - by hanging big bowls of water next t...