I overhead an exasperated parent the other day: “The kid just won’t stop asking ‘why’ all the time. Everything I say, she challenges. She’s driving …
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Three years before he died, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, one of my favorite popularizers of science, published a book called Rocks of Ages: Science and …
My research focuses on how magnets behave when you make them very, very small. (The broad answer is: really interestingly and often unpredictably.) Like many people who study the physical world, it is much easier to get at the basic nature of a material if you cool the material to very low temperatures. Cooling literally “freezes out” many effects, making the system simpler to understand.
What does an airplane have to fear from 2 mm particles? It’s not like a duck or a goose flying into an engine, after all.
Millions of Americans were glued to their TV sets Wednesday night watching the State of the Union address, but let's face it, President Obama was …
Okay, so pretty much all the bloggers at the Cocktail Party suck of late when it comes to keeping things current. We're trying. But life …
I've been back from China for about a month and I'm still processing the experience, but I thought I'd tell you all a little …
Color me boggled! I was all set to write about ionizing radiation from your CRT (still in the works, I promise) and then I got …
Yes, that's a deliberately provocative headline. I chose it because that's what the media would like you to think your choices are. You can vaccinate …
One surefire way to panic the heck out of people is to mention nuclear bombs and radical Islam in the same sentence. I dunno about …
