First you read about Nome, Alaska. It’s had such tough weather, a Russian tanker and a US Coast Guard icebreaker are painstakingly trying to deliver [...]

Is not running out of oil. This headline today is not good news: Does shale oil boom mean U.S. energy independence is near? Neither is [...]

People discuss obesity as an epidemic, but the solution somehow remains individual action. That doesn’t work for real epidemics. You can’t, for instance, not catch [...]

I just saw this, and I’m so excited I can barely contain myself. This is like being there at the discovery of penicillin. MIT researchers [...]

Genetically modified food was declared too safe to label years ago. Greenpeace has been fighting to have Monsanto’s original data released. Their RoundUp resistant crops [...]

Really. That would be the general color of the night sky if the universe wasn’t expanding. You’ve probably never wondered why the night sky is [...]

History shows that . . . [CO2] Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels [...]

Few things are more worth celebrating than bilbies, and the second Sunday in September is their day. It’s now nearly 7 AM on Sunday in [...]

The last couple of weeks, the world in all of Greater Los Angeles has looked like this: I’m 70 miles further west. The skyscrapers would [...]

Okay, I give up. Dealing with the media’s breathless messes when reporting on science feels like an endless game of whack-a-mole, and I’d decided life [...]

With the continuing flap over Caster Semenya, it may be interesting to get some background on the biology involved. A recent article I saw mentions [...]

As a person who can only do one thing at a time (if that), all I have to say is: HA! BBC | Multitaskers bad [...]

Not with a financial collapse. Not with death by insurance company. Those are all just human disasters. We hear them loud and clear, but they [...]

Not only have I told you so, repeatedly, but so did everybody else who’s capable of coming up with four when adding two plus two, [...]

I haven’t got much done these last few days. I’ve been too busy watching the Nasa TV live feed from the Hubble servicing mission. Click [...]

Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before. The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited scope [...]