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Dr. Patricia Rankin - ​Chair, Department of Physics, Arizona State University

"I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses." -Leonard Susskind

HowStuffWorks profiles five famous female mathematicians including Karen Uhlenbeck and Katherine Johnson.

“The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I’ve known for 40 or 50 years, and they’re old. And I suddenly realize I’m old. It comes as an enormous shock to me. ” -Polly Bergen

Today Quanta published an explainer I wrote on the subject of resonance. Regular readers of this irregularly maintained blog will know that resonance is among my favorite topics in physics.

If the invisible matter does not appear in experiments or particle colliders, we may have to find it in space

When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.

A look at the "God particle" — its theoretical origins, its discovery in 2012, and its continuing significance.

Seventh grader Ayeza Shehzad takes home $200 for her project on tsunamis.

This is how a black hole can exist in both two dimensions and three dimensions at the same time.