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. ...

Black Swans

Science can't prove anything. No watter how much evidence may exist that something is so, it only takes one counter example to show t...

The Claus That Refreshes

Really, St. Nicholas didn't celebrate Christmas and probably never saw, or knew about, reindeer because he lived in what's now Turke...

A Different Angle on A Solar Eclipse

NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (aka STEREO) has a pair of satellites in orbit that can take pictures of the Sun simultan...

You lose most body heat through your head

A well known clothing manufacturer (can't tell you their name, but their initials are REI) claims that you lose 75% of your body heat th...

Unbelievable

In a recent survey respondents said they thought NASA gets about 25% of the total U.S. budget. It really is about half of one percent! Amer...