Multiversality

Frank Wilczek's take on the current state of affairs.

Champion of Change

Congrats to Paul Ginsparg.

Press

A good discussion on possible observing strategies by Fermi. 

Closing in on the Fermi line

Cristoph has posted a White Paper on a possible change in Fermi's observing strategy (arXiv:1305.4710).

Neutrinophilic Dark Matter

Good read (arXiv:1305.1936) by Ian Shoemaker

The Four Pillars of Dark Matter Detection

Good paper by Bauer et al. (arXiv:1305.1605).

9 GeV?

Dark matter murmurs around 9 GeV. 

Positron fraction

Beautiful positron fraction plot from AMS. The guessing game begins: gradual or extreme dropoff?. Press release is here. PRL in two days. Positrons to at least  600 GeV.

I Guess That's Why They Call it the Higgs

CERN has issued a press release stating that they feel comfortable calling the new particle a Higgs boson.

The anatomy of science rumors

The spread of the Higgs. Geographic rumorology.

Vanilla

SM-like Higgs or moving in that direction. 

Desperately seeking SUSY

Rumors about the latest LHC findings in Kyoto. Appears to be in line with SM predictions.

Gone with the Limb

Two preprints cast doubt on the reality of the 130-GeV gamma-ray excess found by Fermi. Most likely the signature is connected to Earth limb photons (arXiv:1209.4548)  and (arXiv:1209.4562)

Top 10^500 Reasons

Tom Banks easily wins best title of the week.

Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with CTA

We have just posted a new preprint (arXiv:1208.5356).

Independence Higgs

A Higgs has been found. Mass 125.3 +/- 0.6 Gev at 4.9 sigma, coming in at 0.8 +/- 0.2 SM.

Higgs Hunt

News on the CERN Higgs search are expected on July 4th.

We need to talk about keVins

Recent paper gets the price for best particle name since quarks (arXiv:1205.0551).  Remains to be seen if Warm Dark Matter "keVins" can save the day.

ICARUS

The latest results from ICARUS seem to put to rest the superluminal neutrino claim from OPERA.

Fastest no longer

Rumors that the faster-than-light measurements by OPERA might have been flawed. There is a lesson here: if you are going to unravel physics be extra careful.