I'm not one of the "we have 12 years to save the planet" doomsayers. But it does...
Astronomy
I really hope to live long enough to discover that we aren't completely alone, even if the...
If Musk's full system comes on line, the simple fact is that no one has done the...
Even with three nuclear disasters, the number of casualties is tiny. And it is especially tiny when...
Scientists need our own version of Rule 34: if it exists, someone is studying it.
Black holes were first theorized in the 18th century. But because they are...you know...black...we couldn't image them...
This entire nontroversy is a result of two things colliding: one good and one bad. The bad...
Here's the thing though: even if vaccines did cause autism, even if they caused other injuries, it...
So today is February 28. Since it's 2019, there will be no leap year.
The only thing Malthusian predictions have had in common is being completely wrong
Saturn is losing its rings. The shepherd moons are keeping it together but the ice is slowing...
One thing that annoys me is people conflating the far side of the moon with the "dark...
On a personal note, we spent the weekend in Flagstaff, and Bug got to see Mars through...
Does men's dominance of Scrabble prove there's no sexism in science? Eh, not quite.
Want to hear me discussing astronomy in a bar?
No, a quarter of millennials are not experiencing PTSD because of the election. A few months...
But can we ever see the Big Bang? Because that'd be like looking at yourself 13.8 billion...
