• How High Is Up?

• Ants In Your Pants

Seems like ants are everywhere, right? They are! Ants and termites, along with thier close relatives bees and wasps, make up fully 3/4s of t...

• Why Science Matters

Briane Green writes: A couple of years ago I received a letter from an American soldier in Iraq. The letter began by saying that, as we'...

• Flying Carpets Burn Oil

Original post 2/11/07 (see update below) Luxurious flying palaces based on Boeing airliners are enjoyed by private and business customers in...

• Time to Take Stock. Oops, too late.

• The US share of the world’s leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing capacity dropped from 36% to 11% in the past 7 years. • Chemical comp...

• Taking It Slow

Did you ever wonder if rocks could think and talk? If you watch them very, very closely for a long time they don't seem to move. But may...

• Evolution isn't the only thing Creationists are wrong about

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has been recording data for 5 years on heat in the form of microwaves created by the Big B...

There's Tar In Them Thar Hills

Is the 21st century's equivalent of the '49s Gold Rush in our future, say in 2049? Think Tom Corbet and Gabby Hays, tanker rockets a...

Blah, blah, blah . . . WACKO!

So you start reading what looks like a typical scientific journal article—lotsa names, unusual terms, not very clear what it's all abou...

Water on Mars

Mars is a cold desert planet with no liquid water on its surface, but discoveries announced in 2000 by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) u...

New Year's Irresolution

New Year's Day is the one when, briefly, millions of people delude themselves into thinking that firm resolutions will bring happiness. ...