Stories by Christopher Mims

Last year there were two trillion stalks of corn in Iowa, and a lot of it went to corn syrup

UK declares Al Gore made 9 errors in An Inconvenient Truth; Germany rushes to his defense

Nobel committee to climate change deniers: "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries."*

New image of Saturn's moon Iapetus... as a desktop image.

Our nation's history is littered with shameful secrets, such as sexist chemistry sets

Scientists ask Congress to fund $50 billion science thing

Will the web finally make the dream of a universal human language a reality?

Frightening new maps of U.S. coastal areas to be inundated by global warming

Eating plants gathered from the wild... in New York City

SciAm editor discusses male lactation on drive-time radio

Do patients have the right to demand experimental medications?

Humans turn out to be as genetically different from one another as it was previously thought they were different from chimps

Busted: PR Flacks who ran afoul of the science blogosphere, including a brand new flack for Stuart Pivar who showed up right here on this blog

WIRED scoops Scientific American on SciAm's own birthday -- happy 162nd to us!

This week in censoring scientific discourse via the legal system, Harun Yahya edition

PZ Myers, ScienceBlogs.com's lead blogger, is being sued for libel

A critique of our article on racial medicine from Roger Masters of Dartmouth

New 'Mind' exhibit at San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum proves interesting

Weaponized BlackBerry

Who knew the Bible could predict the size of the universe?

Men average more sexual partners than women, right? Wrong.

TurtleNet - Connecting turtles wirelessly

Are Transgenic Crops Safe to Grow and Eat?

Kids prefer carrots that come out of McDonald's bags... even though McDonald's doesn't sell carrots