Yesterday was, for many physicists (and physics students), as a friend put it, "a bit like Christmas", and I think it is safe to bet that quite a few at CERN woke up today with a very Christmassy hangover. But, now that the party is over, a question arises (as...

In a couple of days, the final results on the search for the Higgs boson at CERN will be publicised, so in the meantime, I would like to dwell a bit on what comes after. Indeed, if the Higgs is found, this will only have confirmed, once more, that the...

In the recent economic crisis, many of the failures of the system have been attributed to the systematic trading of increasingly elaborate "derivatives"(which are sorts of bets on the future value of an asset), a practise which is made possible by the use of complex mathematical tools, such as the...

Since the Large Hadron Collider has been closed for a while, and experiments concerning the search for the Higg's and other hot topics such as the "faster than light neutrinos" (there is still no firm evidence as to the validity of the results, hence the quotes) are not due to...

Octopuses, however surprising it may seem, can do all kinds of interesting things (although arguably maybe not, as some have claimed, predict the results of a football game): they can evolve with perfect ease in their environment (if, as I do, you struggle coordinating four limbs, imagine what it must...