
Stories by George Musser

George Musser is a contributing editor at Scientific American and author of Spooky Action at a Distance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) and The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Alpha, 2008). Follow him on Mastodon @gmusser@mastodon.social Credit: Nick Higgins


Early steps: Size matters when you're installing solar

Introducing 60-Second Solar: A family installs panels on its roof

Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA
The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA

Background Radiation: Glow in the Dark
A second cosmic background radiation permeates the sky

Mystery Cosmic Static May Cast Light on Formation of First Stars
Researchers sifting through extragalactic radio emissions may have found a secondary background radiation

Which came first--galaxies or black holes?

Did the universe mature at an early age?

The Milky Weigh Galaxy

New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs
Quantum particles continue to behave in ways traditional particles do not

Is M. Night Shyamalan anti-scientific?

I See Doomed People
The director of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan, talks about his scientific and environmental inspirations

A Science Fête
A celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures

A Science Fête Project: A Q&A with Brian Greene
The World Science Festival—a celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures

The big bang in musical form

Relativity theory to the tune of "Yellow Submarine"

Catching No Rays
Missing in action: ultraenergetic cosmic rays from the Virgo cluster

Explorer 1 at 50

Is That a Bulge in Your Galaxy?
