November 7, 2011
Life's Journey: 5 Tiny Organisms Hitch a Ride on Mission to a Martian Moon [Slide Show]
The Russian sample-return spacecraft will carry a zoo of microbes to Phobos and back to test whether life can survive the interplanetary journey
Stories by George Musser
George Musser is a contributing editor at Scientific American and author of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation (2023) and Spooky Action at a Distance (2015), both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Follow him on Mastodon @gmusser@mastodon.social, Bluesky @gmusser.bsky.social and Threads @georgemusserjr@threads.net
EnvironmentSeptember 29, 2011
My Electric Bill Was WHAT?!? Analyze Your Power Use with These Three Websites
The SciencesSeptember 26, 2011
What the World Looks Like, If You Move Backward in Time [Video]
EvolutionSeptember 23, 2011
How Life Arose on Earth, and How a Singularity Might Bring It Down
The SciencesSeptember 21, 2011
Quantum Cheshire Cat: Even Weirder Than Schrödinger's
The SciencesSeptember 19, 2011
Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin
Mind & BrainSeptember 16, 2011
Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception
September 2, 2011
Do Physicists Make the World a Better Place?
This past week, I’ve been attending the Foundational Questions Institute conference on the nature of time, and in the coming weeks, I hope to share with you some of the mind-blowing things I’ve found out.
EnvironmentAugust 22, 2011
Can You Really Get Solar Panels Installed for Free?
EnvironmentAugust 18, 2011
How Optical Illusions Can Build a Better Bulb
EnvironmentAugust 11, 2011
Could Hackers Break into Your Electric Meter?
August 4, 2011
Can scientists really do anything to reform education?
Biologist and biology educator Joanne Manaster has a thought-provoking guest blog post today on what, if anything, scientists can do to help K-12 science education.
The SciencesAugust 2, 2011
The Unreasonable Beauty of Mathematics [Slide Show]
Mathematical structures both natural and man-made dazzle the eye
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2011
20 Solar Apps for Your iPhone
The SciencesJuly 28, 2011
Physicists Simulate the End of Time in a Maryland Lab
Space & PhysicsJuly 6, 2011
Beasts of the Stellar Zoo [Slide Show]
From yellow dwarfs to blue supergiants, stars continue to challenge astronomers' understanding of the universe
EnvironmentJune 23, 2011
Phasebook? My(Green)Space? Can Social Networking Be Harnessed for Energy Conservation?
June 14, 2011
Is Reality Digital or Analog? Read the Essays and Cast your Vote
The SciencesJune 14, 2011
Is Reality Digital or Analog? Read the Essays and Cast your Vote
Space & PhysicsJune 9, 2011
What Would Happen If Earth and Mars Switched Places?
EvolutionJune 1, 2011
A Mystery Wrapped in a Crystal
Scientists have shed new light on how these structures melt
May 18, 2011
More Information on Quantum Entanglement
See what scientists are doing to try to understand the deepest mystery of quantum physics
Space & PhysicsMay 17, 2011
Space Is an Elaborate Illusion
Space & PhysicsMay 16, 2011
Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches Successfully on Its Final Mission