"Relative to the témoins and to the national standards, Le Grand K has been losing weight — or, by the definition of mass under the metric system, the rest of the universe has been getting fatter."

"The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum. Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth surface and the ionosphere." from Wikipedia.

A new device tests the limits of Schrödinger's cat. from Scientific American.

"...physicists have been accelerating gold nuclei around a 2.4-mile underground ring to 99.995 percent of the speed of light and then colliding them in an effort to melt protons and neutrons and free their constituents — quarks and gluons. The goal has been a state of matter called a quark-gluon plasma, which theorists believe existed when the universe was only a microsecond old." from NYT.

The plan is to test a controversial theory: the possibility that gravity drops slightly during a total eclipse.

quantum computation and entangled qubits. from technology review.

the deepest and most interesting unsolved problem in solid state theory. from nyt.

the search for a theory of quantum gravity. from scientific american.

the enigma of dark energy, explained.

panpsychism and consciousness.