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Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands looks peaceful now. Undersea surveys have found a 400 cubic km landslide, the debris of a prehis...

A new article from “Inside Science” suggests that ‘constants’ like the speed of light could change. It also suggests that LIGO the gravitat...

On October 2, 2018 Donna Strickland became only the third woman in history to share the Nobel Prize in physics. That same day her Wikipedia...

Another article has appeared in the DAILY EXPRESS, the other big UK paper, about my work on black holes. Former NASA scientist claims there...

I am subject of an article in UK DAILY STAR, one of the biggest newspapers. NASA Scientist Claims Speed of Light Is Changing

I am back in the papers. It started with an article in SCIENCE TRENDS: Atomic Clock in Space to Test Changing Speed of Light

From time to time I have reported on the idea that the Universe is 2/3 filled with a repulsive "dark" energy. Like the Emperor...

In 1998 Adam Riess was first author on a paper claiming evidence that the universe was accelerating. In 2011 he shared 1/4 of a Nobel Prize...

Professor Subir Sarkar of Oxford has long been a skeptic of "dark energy". The idea of an accelerating universe was first propose...

Science has long tried to put the Universe on a T-shirt. Using science and light, I've done that. The project has only been on Kic...

Ridley Scott Returns to Space Ridley Scott's first commercial hit, coming after little-seen The Duellists, was 1979's Alien. Sin...

Yesterday at Johnson Space Center we were treated to a screening of THE MARTIAN along with members of the cast. Full review and photos comi...

Hello from Nevada! Peter Woit at Not Even Wrong reports on the SUSY2015 conference here, where physicists report on the complete lack of ev...

Today is the 127th birthday of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, as the day's Google doodle reminds us. Lehmann studied at Cambridge a ...

Astronomers have found an enormous "void" in space 1.8 billion light-years across, the largest structure yet found in the universe...

Happy 25th Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope! Type Ia supernovae were once thought to all have the same brightness. Using these expl...

The newest project on Kickstarter is an updated Solar System poster, including new photos of Ceres and Pluto. What is different? Most depi...

More and more physicists are willing to consider that the speed of light may be changing, as predicted. From phys.org: Physicists propose...

Funding is always an issue with science, especially in a time of darkness. The new book project, THE YEAR OF LIGHT, is tantalizingly close ...

Publisher Biomed Central has been forced to retract a large number of papers due to abuses of the "peer review" system. From the ...

Here is one excerpt from the new book, THE YEAR OF LIGHT, March 2014 and the BICEP2 announcement: Albert Einstein's birthday, March 14...

(From Waikiki, 2006) Duke Kahanamoku was an Olympic swimming champion and a hero to us islanders. He popularised our Hawaiian sport of sur...

2 minute 40 second video of the Moon's history. According to the most popular theory, the Moon was created when a Mars-sized planet str...

Here I am with the Apollo 13 crew! The Apollo Mission Control room in Building 30 is kept as much as possible in its historic state. The s...

What a year has gone by! In May 2014 THE SPEED OF LIGHT was published, and is still selling briskly. On March 17, 2014 the BICEP2 team an...

2015 is the International Year of Light, as proclaimed by UNESCO along with the International Astronomical Union and other organizations. I...

February 20 was another book talk on THE SPEED OF LIGHT, this time for the Fort Bend Astronomy Club in Stafford, Texas. The audience was ve...

For 35 years the paradigm of "inflation" has dominated studies of the universe. In 1979 Alan Guth and others first speculated th...

The latest results from the PLANCK satellite will be released next week, and BICEP2 was wrong, wrong about detecting gravitational waves fro...

In response to some evocative comments, here is an old post from October 1, 2007! The Planck units point to a quantum nature of space and t...