When I was a kid, energy was fun. I used to write to utility companies asking for their brochures on nuclear power and then sit and study the cutaway diagrams of reactors.
The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA
A second cosmic background radiation permeates the sky
Researchers sifting through extragalactic radio emissions may have found a secondary background radiation
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—One of the oddities of the universe revealed over the past decade is that galaxies and the giant black holes at their hubs fit together as if they were made for each other...
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—You might think that the universe 11.5 billion years ago was in a more primitive state than it is today. Barely two billion years had passed since the big bang, our Milky Way galaxy was still taking shape, and billions more years would pass before the sun pulled itself together...
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—One of the unnerving aspects of astronomy as a science is how astronomers continue to argue over measurements you’d have thought they settled long ago.
Quantum particles continue to behave in ways traditional particles do not
The director of The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan, talks about his scientific and environmental inspirations
A celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures
The World Science Festival—a celebration that seeks to reunite the Two Cultures
Missing in action: ultraenergetic cosmic rays from the Virgo cluster
Apparently, the engineers and scientists who launched America's first satellite partied as hard as they worked. They dressed up as outhouses for the masquerade ball and rolled on the floor with their bop...
Last week, I talked about results from the American Astronomical Society conference early this month. For me, the biggest news from the meeting wasn't something that gets headlines.
The February issue of Wired has a cover story on my favorite topic, "Why Things Suck." It's a thing of beauty. Wired, I bow down before you, bow down before you.
Printers squirt out silicon chips, and the spin of electrons is used in computer logic
