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(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a proton look like? The common answer to this question is that protons are much too small to scatter light, and since light is necessary for us to see things, protons do not “look” like anything. But in a new study, physicists have gathered sufficient evidence to show that, at least at very high energies, the proton is a black disk – sort of an elongated hockey puck.

Last week, the Foundation Questions Institute announced the winners of its third essay contest , which Scientific American co-sponsored. (I helped to decide on the question, judge the essays and hand out the awards at the World Science Festival in New York City.) The essay question was, "Is Reality Digital or Analog?" Is nature, at root, continuous or discretized

Mr. Jacob Stauffer, a naturalist from Lancaster, PA, sent in this drawing of a five legged frog that was captured in Conestoga, PA (near Lancaster). The extra leg seemed to be a fusion of two hind legs rather than a full-grown independent limb

The internet helps me find a lot of things I’m looking for, like a nearby restaurant or where to renew my driver’s license.