Geek of the Week profiles the characters of Pacific Northwest tech, science, games, innovation and more. See the Geek of the Week archive for more. by Todd Bishop on Apr 20, 2012 at 2:32 pm April 20, ...

This is a preemptive review of my new book Geek Physics: Surprising Answers to the Planet's Most Interesting Questions. Yes, there is a new book coming out. Are you excited? For this book review, I ...

Rhett Allain is the author of Geek Physics and an associate physics professor at Southeastern Louisiana University. He also writes WIRED’s Dot Physics blog. This website uses cookies to improve your ...

If you’re a film buff — and even if you’re not — you’ll no doubt be interested to learn that a website called Online Engineering Degree has posted a list of its “top 25 movies for physics geeks”. Top ...

I wonder when it comes to physics geeks if their dream in life is to prove one of Einstein's theories as correct or incorrect. A group of physicists at a CERN lab near Geneva announced to the world ...

The word “geek” used to be a bit of insult, but to be labelled a geek these days isn’t such a bad thing after all. I think a lot of that’s due to the sheer power and pervasiveness of smartphones, ...

It could be the perfect Christmas gift for physics geeks: a table-top particle accelerator. Injecting laser beams into a plasma can create huge electric fields that accelerate the plasma’s ...