This is a reblog of the article in Nautilus by Natalie Wolchover. See the original here. A team in Paris has made the most precise measurement yet of the fine-structure constant, killing hopes for a… Read More »Sci-Advent – Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
Quantum magic squares In a new paper in the Journal of Mathematical Physics, Tim Netzer and Tom Drescher from the Department of Mathematics and Gemma De las Cuevas from the Department of Theoretical Physics have… Read More »Quantum magic squares
I was pleasently surprised and bewildered about this article in the New York Times reporting on a recent paper in the journal Mammalia about fluorescence being observed in platypuses when shining ultraviolet light on them…… Read More »Fluorescent Platypuses (??)
I had intended to post this much ealier on, and certainly closer to the actual announcement of the Nobel Prizes in early October. It has however been a very busy period. Better late than never,… Read More »2020 Nobel Prize in Physics – Black holes
This year, 2020, the word Nightingale has acquired new connotations. It is no longer just a word to refer to a passerine bird with beautiful and powerful birdsong, it is the name that NHS England… Read More »Let there be light: Florence Nightingale
With all that is happening with Covid-19, perhaps relevant to remind ourselves about exponential growth.
The two videos below were made a few years ago to support a Science Communication and Group Project module at the School of Physics Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire. The work was supported by the Institute of Physics and… Read More »Science Communication – Technical Writing and Presentation Advice
The videos below were made a few years ago to support a Science Communication and Group Project module at the School of Physics Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire. The work was supported… Read More »Screencasting with Macs and PCs
This is a video I made a few years ago to encourage my students to use better tools to write dissertations, thesis and reports that include the use of mathematics. The principles stand, although the… Read More »Structured Documents in LaTeX
This is a video I made a few years ago to encourage my students to use better tools to write dissertations, thesis and reports that include the use of mathematics. The principles stand, although the… Read More »LaTeX for writing mathematics – An introduction