Taking Things Seriously

I was greatly saddened to read today that the Arecibo radio telescope is going to be dismantled . The telescope has been suffering from main...

For those of us who are space-program tragics, ten years of watching and waiting comes down to today, as New Horizons arrives at Pluto. It ...

Ross Douthat, the younger of the resident conservative commentators at the New York Times, has posted an excellent reflection on Persecution...

A fine series of posts — 1 , 2 , and 3 — by the husband of a physicist, reprinted over at BioLogos.

Since late 2010 I've had the privilege of working with a very good research student, Cameron Cuthbert, on “hidden-beauty” states at the ...

The LHCb experiment at CERN has observed two new baryons — particles like the protons and neutrons that form the nuclei of normal matter — ...

Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish ...

The Times' junior resident conservative, Ross Douthat, can be infuriatingly uneven — sometimes clear-eyed, sometimes self-serving, and s...

There is a lovely animation of the exoplanetary systems discovered by Kepler , and an accompanying article on a recent system with two possi...

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, “Curiosity”, has safely landed on the surface of the Red Planet after what sounded like a trouble...

I was interviewed on physics and faith six weeks ago as part of the Melbourne City Bible Forum's Reason for Faith Festival — a kind of...

The NYT this weekend includes a glowing memoir on the Franciscan Sisters of Mary , on the occasion of Sister Mary Jean Ryan's retirement...