Stories by George Musser

New orbiter begins to listen for venusquakes

Cuts may be more than a mere monetary speed bump

Does the money immigrants send home do any good?

Physicists can't seem to find the time--literally. Can philosophers help?

An ancient, watery Mars was not always an acid bath

Photovoltaic advances make the ever lagging technology more of a competitor

Tempel 1 proves to be a ball of fluff

Demographically and economically, our era is unique in human history. Depending on how we manage the next few decades, we could usher in environmental sustainability--or collapse

Is ordinary matter causing the cosmos to accelerate?

Dark energy chills our galactic neighborhood

Unlike nearly all his contemporaries, Albert Einstein thought quantum mechanics would give way to a classical theory. Some researchers nowadays are inclined to agree

In a 1950 Scientific American article, Einstein outlined his unified theory of physics. Too bad it was wrong

Could a single dark matter particle be light-years wide?

Old, massive galaxies where none should be

NASA's rover fights the curse of the Angry Red Planet