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  • "The Physics of Impossible Things" at Perimeter Institute Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 9:17AMProf. Ben Schumacher of Kenyon College will speak on "The Physics of Impossible Things" December 3rd at Perimeter Institute.
  • Highlights From Akari Infrared Space Telescope Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 6:33PMby Staff Writers Paris, France (ESA) Nov 20, 2008 The Akari infrared surveyor, a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission with ESA participation, has returned a host of new results.
  • Ethnographic jewelry in the Baltic States Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 3:33PMWithout many other exports to speak of, the jewelry industry is one of the few that the Baltic States are well known for internationally. As such, jewelry – and especially amber from Latvia and Lithuania – has long been a point of pride for the Baltics.
  • Introduction to new age religions Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 12:24PMTraditional religions may have the most adherents worldwide, but alternative beliefs and practices are on the rise. There are numerous alternative religions that exist in our world today. Many of these belief systems are an accumulation of beliefs from all over the world.
  • Templeton Foundation among medal winners Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 2:49AMThe Bush administration yesterday named the John Templeton Foundation of West Conshohocken and 10 other parties winners of the National Humanities Medal for 2008.
  • Planck Satellite Mission Set to Explore Cosmic Secrets Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 11:16PM In a fitting irony, the static that once bothered scientists trying to tune in to the universe has turned out to be an incredibly rich source of information about it. Probing these signals over the past 40 years--known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation--scientists have dug out cosmological secrets that have revolutionized the field. Next, European scientists will spy on the ...
  • Needs a Headline Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 6:05AM Science education has become a culture war issue in the United States. The battle is over the controversial evolutionary hypothesis that all life is descended f ...
  • Leading figures weigh up the pros and cons of university Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 7:44AMFrom Benjamin Zephaniah to Alain de Botton, leading figures weigh up university
  • Grip River and Austin fever Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 8:08PMWhoa, I’ve got many miles to cover in this month’s Art Capades, intrepid readers, so I’ll step lively. First stop: Artpace
  • Pope Appoints Scientists to Academy Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 2:34PMVATICAN CITY, NOV. 11, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Benedict XVI appointed two people to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Govind Swarup, Indian professor of astrophysics, and Stanislas Dehaene, French professor of evolutionary psychology.
  • Gift To Fund New Array At South Pole Monday, November 10, 2008 @ 6:18PMby Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2008 The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2.3 million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to fund the Keck Array--a suite of three microwave polarimeters at the South Pole--and the corresponding research initiative, "Imaging the Beginning of Time: A Search for the Signature of Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background."
  • The search for dark matter might soon end Monday, November 10, 2008 @ 12:05PM MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A German-led consortium of scientists says the search for the mysterious substance known as dark matter could soon end.
  • Area news digest Sunday, November 9, 2008 @ 11:34PMRegional transportation system subject of Wednesday meeting
  • Faith groups search for a common voice on global challenges Sunday, November 9, 2008 @ 3:20AMChristians and Muslims with come together this week to explore how they can use a common voice to speak out on world issues
  • Giving social mobility a smart push Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 5:01PMA new report from the Cabinet Office claims that social mobility in Britain may be improving at last. Such stories cheer everyone up, even if on closer examination the report actually concedes: “Broadly social mobility is no greater or less since 1970.”
  • God and evolution: One evangelical minister says the two go hand in hand Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 11:26PMAs a conservative, evangelical Christian, the Rev. Michael Dowd once was furious when he heard evolution discussed by his peers.
  • At last, light is shed on secrets of dark matter Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 6:24PM It is one of the biggest mysteries in science which has baffled scholars for more than 75 years, but now a team of cosmologists believes it has found a way of discovering what the universe is made of. About 85 per cent is neither stars nor planets but some form of mysterious matter. It cannot be seen or detected by conventional scientific instruments, which is why the precise nature of this ...
  • Templeton Prize winner to lecture in Ottawa Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 2:43PMScience and religion are commonly thought be opposed, but Ottawans will have the opportunity today to hear why they aren’t.
  • Templeton Prize winner to lecture in Ottawa Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 2:43PMScience and religion are commonly thought be opposed, but Ottawans will have the opportunity today to hear why they aren’t.
  • Coast Lines: Nov. 6, 2008 Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 11:26AMSanta Cruz Feds open disaster loan office The Small Business Administration has opened a Disaster Loan Outreach Center at the Santa Cruz American Red Cross.
  • Coast Lines: Nov. 6, 2008 Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 11:26AMSanta Cruz Feds open disaster loan office The Small Business Administration has opened a Disaster Loan Outreach Center at the Santa Cruz American Red Cross.
  • Are We Close to Finding Dark Matter? Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 10:12AMScientists say he search for the mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end. A massive computer simulation was used to show the evolution of a galaxy like the Milky Way, and analysts were able to "see" gamma-rays given off by dark matter. Dark matter is believed [...]
  • Are We Close to Finding Dark Matter? Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 10:12AMScientists say he search for the mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end. A massive computer simulation was used to show the evolution of a galaxy like the Milky Way, and analysts were able to "see" gamma-rays given off by dark matter. Dark matter is believed [...]
  • Giant Simulation Could Solve Mystery Of Dark Matter Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 7:18PMby Staff Writers Durham, UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2008 The search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end, according to new research.
  • Gravity waves could hold key to supersymmetry Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 11:54AM(PhysOrg.com) -- "In Geneva," Anupam Mazumdar tells PhysOrg.com, "there is a big effort to discover supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider. But that is not the only way to find these particles. We should also be able to see supersymmetry in the sky through the observation of gravitational waves."
  • Bhutan celebrates coronation of young new king Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 11:39AM(By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer) The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan crowned its fifth king Thursday after a two-year wait for the precise moment deemed most favorable by court astrologers for a successful reign. At exactly 8:31 a.m. local time King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, placed the Raven Crown on the head of his son, 28-year old Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, giving him the ...
  • Science and faith discussion Tuesday Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 3:02AMThe public is invited to a free presentation and dialogue on science and faith Tuesday at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
  • Pope to Pontifical Science Academy Friday, October 31, 2008 @ 4:35PMVATICAN CITY, OCT. 31, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the address Benedict XVI gave today upon receiving in audience participants in the plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
  • Meteor Shower Could Spur Bright Fireballs Friday, October 31, 2008 @ 12:35PMNov. 5 to 12 will likely be the best time to look for Taurid meteors this year.
  • Debating The Foundations Of Our Moral Instinct At The 2008 Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 11:17AMAre human beings "blank slates" that are molded by the cultures into which they are born? Or are our values and predispositions genetically based, shaped solely by evolution? The controversy around evolution and human behaviour has been a hot topic of scientific research since Charles Darwin reframed the debate about the origin of our species 150 years ago. On Nov.
  • Artists beginning with I Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 2:21AMThe Dong-Son culture, who lived in northern Vietnam, were distinguished by their fine bronze craftsmanship. This drum, known colloquially as the Moon of Bali, is thought to be the earliest example.
  • Jerome Shestack and Thomas Buergenthal, Two Renowned Advocates of Human Rights and Justice Through Law, Receiving ... Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 11:22AMHarold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School, will lead a panel discussion featuring two giants of international justice as they are honored with the 2008 Justice Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. Dean Koh will deliver a brief talk entitled "Human Rights in the Post-Post-Post Cold War World," after which the 2008 Gruber Justice Prize recipients Judge Thomas Buergenthal and Jerome ...
  • Jerome Shestack and Thomas Buergenthal, Two Renowned Advocates of Human Rights and Justice Through Law, Receiving ... Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 11:00AM WASHINGTON & PHILADELPHIA----Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale Law School, will lead a panel discussion featuring two giants of international justice as they are honored with the 2008 Justice Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.
  • Making Secular Art Out of Religious Imagery Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 3:36AM?NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,? at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, is a quiet, meditative, spare-to-the-point-of-thin-looking exhibition.
  • Principal rues loss of honour courses Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 12:07AMTHE principal of the top selective school in the state fears the Higher School Certificate will be dumbed down when distinction courses for elite students are phased out from next year.
  • The Great Cosmic Challenge Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 11:24PMToday cosmologists are challenging the world to solve a compelling statistical problem, to bring us closer to understanding the nature of dark matter and energy which makes up 95 per cent of the ‘missing’ universe.
  • Making secular art out of religious imagery Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 9:41PMIn the "NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith" exhibition at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, all the work is secular, but some of it draws heavily on religious imagery. More photos |
  • The great cosmic challenge Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 3:54PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Today cosmologists are challenging the world to solve a compelling statistical problem, to bring us closer to understanding the nature of dark matter and energy which makes up 95 per cent of the ‘missing` universe. The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) PASCAL Challenge is being set by 38 scientists across 19 international institutions, with the aim of ...
  • WRAP-UP: SWBTS adds 5 to faculty Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 2:30PMFORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary elected five new faculty members during their fall meeting at the Fort Worth, Texas, campus.
  • Hawking to Retire, But Not Quit Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 9:04PMCosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his post at Cambridge University next year, but he still intends to continue his exploration of time and space. University policy is that officeholders must retire at the end of the academic year in which they become 67. Hawking will reach that age on Jan. 8, 2009. Hawking [...]
  • UCSB Physicist Receives Einstein Prize Saturday, October 25, 2008 @ 8:02AMHonored for achievements relating to theory of relativity.
  • Oakland Museum hosts Dia de los Muertos celebration noon to 5 p.m. today Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 11:17PMDay of the Dead festivities in the Fruitvale District 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
  • Hawking will quit esteemed position Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 11:05PMCAMBRIDGE, England
  • ANATHEM Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 6:57PMANATHEM, Neal Stephenson’s new novel, centers on a young man named Fraa Erasmas, a monk, of sorts, residing within the walls of the Concent of Saunt Edhar. There, he and his fellow residents/students devote their lives to the understanding of math, science, cosmology, metaphysics and more.
  • Remembering the First Rangzen Marcher – Jamyang Norbu Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 1:35PMLate one night in October 1988 I was woken by a telephone call from the United States. I was living in Japan then, teaching English and writing the occasional book review for the Japan Times . My twenty year work stint in exile Tibetan society had ended a few years earlier when I had been dismissed (with the aid of a violent McLeod Ganj mob) from my post as director of the Tibetan Institute of ...
  • Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking Retires From Post Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 10:46AMHawking leaves behind his official position but will continue to explore space and time.
  • Stephen Hawking to Retire From Cambridge Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 10:15AMThe famed scientist will retire from his prominent post at Cambridge University.
  • Stephen Hawking to retire from post at Cambridge Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 9:43AMFamed cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space.
  • Hawking to leave Cambridge post Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 9:15AMFamed cosmologist to continue exploration of time and space as emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
  • Thor: Norse Mythology’s Main Character Wednesday, October 22, 2008 @ 9:54AMIn Norse mythology, one of the most well known figures is Thor—typically represented with flowing red hair, wielding his mighty hammer Mjolnir.