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28 January 2016 /files/sw43254timpalmersliderpng Professor Tim Palmer says work on numerical weather prediction (NWP) carried out by his group at the University of Oxford can help ECMWF achieve “more accuracy with less precision”. The eminent scientist...

On this day in history… December 27 1825 – 1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington 1831 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America 1871 – World’s first cat show (Crystal Palace...

Pseudoscience has been rapidly gaining ground in the past few decades. Dietary supplements and homeopathic preparations, advertised by the disgraced Dr. Oz and his ilk, now constitute a multi-billion-dollar industry. Major universities house centers...

When people aren't understanding certain issues in physics and when they're asking questions, e.g. at the Physics Stack Exchange, they understandably seem unhappy about something. When something seems strange or something doesn't make sense, it's sensible...

A scientist has created a black hole made of sound waves that has probably proved the Hawking Radiation theory – if this is confirmed and replicated by other physicists, Prof. Stephen Hawking may finally be awarded the Nobel Prize. For decades, while...