Dean W. Armstrong

"The magic numbers, as we know them now are : 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126 and most importantly, they are the same for neutrons and proton...

In my high school days I had a part-time job at a professional photo lab / studio called "Phillips' Photo Lab". I was hired a...

Cosmic Variance has a rumor about a supposed dark matter detection at the CDMS .

I created this project originally for the Sights and Sounds of Science contest which was sponsored by the Chicago Materials Research Center ...

I built Charles Wenzel's simple ion chamber . It creates an electric field inside the can via a battery. A wire in the center of the ...

Robert Merkel does the calculations on the leaks from the nuclear power plant in Japan and makes the point most media missed: the leak of w...

bwhahaha. A good one. Seen at SciAm Blog .