Physics and Astronomy News Archive: June 2011

Life after Snowball Earth
Source: MIT Posted: 6/14/11
New fossils suggest rapid recovery of life after global freeze.

The Physics of Animation
Source: NSF Posted: 6/14/11
Learn how the best animators take laws of physics into account when creating fantastical and imaginary worlds.

'A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.'

Paul Dirac
(1902-1984)