Nonsense paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference

New Zealand professor asked to present his work at US event on nuclear physics despite it containing gibberish all through the copy. A nonsensical academic paper on nuclear physics written only by iOS autocomplete has been accepted for a scientific conference. Christoph Bartneck, an associate professor at the Human Interface Technology laboratory at the University […]

Could the Higgs boson have been discovered by accident?

A theorist says no. I say yes. See what you think. We have a tendency to oversimplify complicated issues. Sometimes this gives useful clarity, but more frequently it gives a distorted impression of what I am stubborn enough to call the truth. Clarity can be seductive, but is disastrously misleading if it neglects important facts. […]

Milky weigh: our galaxy has the mass of 700bn suns, say scientists

Most accurate measurement so far has estimated the collective mass of the Milky Ways stars, black holes, dust, dark matter – and unidentified flying objects Our galaxy has a collective mass 700 billion times that of the sun, according to the most accurate measurement yet by scientists. The estimate covers the mass of all the […]

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