Science

No, the world is not going to end this week. That belief is too unfounded to be even worth a rebuttal.

The reality of disembodied souls would necessarily overturn everything we know about physics. Any scientist would be itching to find evidence for the supernatural—evidence that never seems to turn up, despite the most adamant and most confident protestations of believers.

Senator Tito Sotto responded to allegations of plagiarism by denying them on national TV. In case comparing his speech with the...

Hello, my name is Curiosity. I am the rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) program. I know I am animate only in the broadest sense and that my artificial intelligence is comparable to that of a fly, but allow me this conceit of having conscious thought, if only to tell the story of my mission in Mars. It is, after all, also the story of my cousins, Spirit andOpportunity. It is also the story of Mars. Ultimately, it is also the story of life on Earth. My story is your story, too.

The Filipino Freethinkers, alongside hundreds of other organizations across the globe, sign The Declaration of Internet Freedom.

As a non-hipster science fan, I find it heartwarming that a scientific discovery made in the French-Swiss underground scene is finally making it into the mainstream. However, I noticed that many people are at a loss when it comes to comprehending the excitement surrounding this Higgs thingy. After all, where in the big picture of science does this so-called “God particle” fit in?

After around 50 years since the Higgs boson’s existence was proposed in the 1960's, scientists at CERN have now confirmed at a 4.9 sigma significance level (more than 99.9999% confidence) that a particle that looks like the Higgs boson exists.

...up here in the world of familiar objects -- bouncing basketballs, falling apples, orbiting planets -- the laws that govern our universe make it tick like clockwork. Down in the world of Amber the electron, things can seem very different. We must use a different set of rules to explain the behavior of Amber the electron and similarly small objects like protons, neutrinos, and positrons. These are the rules of quantum mechanics, and objects governed by these rules can be called “quantum objects”.

Meet Amber. She is an electron... Where’s Amber? Also, how fast is she going and where is she headed? Where can we find her later? Well, answering these questions is not as easy as it sounds. This is because Amber’s behavior is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, which are quite different from the rules that govern the behavior of familiar objects like falling apples, swinging pendulums or flying cannon balls.