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World Cancer Day.Cancer is a complex disease in different dimensions, pure research (causes and evolution at genetic level or Carcinogenesis), Clinical research (diagnosis, therapies, prognosis, palliative care, psychology…), epidemiology, social impact, etc…This implies a great transversality that involves the collaboration of multidisciplinary teams: doctors, chemists, physicists, engineers, etc…When you read the word “multidisciplinary” you can be sure that Physics has a major role in those teams.And in therapy research, Particle Physics (in combination with Applied Physics) has much to say, and of course CERN is the main front.Below are some of their lines of research, initiatives, resources and outcomes already...

Is it just me, or does autumn seem like the hottest new holiday season? — because it feels like the latest and greatest, most bustling time of year to me. It’s almost like the powers that be know ALL. THE. THINGS on my to-do list right now, including… Traipsing through piles of autumn leaves (no, seriously, Connor has preschool homework this week that involves gathering fallen leaves!) Driving the coywolf to and from various toddler events, of which, surprisingly, there are many Researching lighting fixtures for a half-bathroom remodel (who knew there were so many different types of lighting fixtures?)...

A delicious reading by Professor Lawrence M. Krauss. How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe? Nautilus Art by Jackie Ferrentino for Nautilus Is theoretical physics able to deal with philosophical fields as Metaphysics (just as it already did with other areas of philosophy such as Cosmology, Epistemology, or even Ontology)? You won’t get a response in this essay, however you will have some good sips of philosophy as it’s viewed by modern cosmology, i.e. a mixture of various fields of physics such as quantum mechanics, relativity, particle physics, physical cosmology, astrophysics, thermodynamics…A highly recommended reading.“If other universes are...

Current dilemmas du jour? What to do with the five pounds of lemons Rosie’s former foster mom gave me (she has a tree in her yard that produces a RIDICULOUS amount of lemons). What’s some festive and colorful holiday makeup that won’t take me till Valentine’s Day to finish? (I’m only half-kidding.) As of yet, I still have no clue what to do with the lemons (ugh, lemon bars and lemonade? Maybe some kind of lemon marinade?), I figured out a trick to flying through different colorful looks. And here it is… Play with your winged liner. THERE ARE SO...

A variation of Dyson sphere.This and other futuristic ideas by cosmologist Max Tegmark (known for his Mathematical universe hypothesis - Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality) in this interesting Discover article (extracted from his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence) that I just stumbled upon: Our Next Billion Years Thirteen point eight billion years after its birth, our universe has awoken and become aware of itself. From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, repeatedly discovering that everything...