Solar panels are supposed to be a set-and-forget technology. Mine have performed just as advertised. All the installer said I need to do is look them over a couple of times a year and rinse off any dirt buildup...
If you've been meaning to enter the Foundational Questions Institute essay contest, on the question "Is Reality Digital or Analog?", then you'd better cancel your Valentine's Day date and brew some coffee for an all-nighter this weekend, because the deadline is Tuesday the 15th...
The New York Times recently ran an article on how solar power is getting all caught up in red tape—specifically, local building codes and permitting requirements.
Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar).
SEATTLE—The most exhilarating science conference I've ever been to took place in San Antonio 15 years ago this week, when planet hunters Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler announced they had found two planets orbiting sunlike stars beyond our solar system...
My wife has first dibs on our New Yorker each week, so I only just got around to reading Jonah Lehrer’s piece on the scientific method in last week's issue, which has been getting so much attention from my fellow science writers...
Could electrical transformers have a gravitational analogue?
The Foundational Questions Institute announced this week its latest essay contest, "Is Reality Digital or Analog?", and if it's anything like the past two contests, we're in for a real treat: the contest should draw entrants from some of the deepest thinkers of our time...
PASADENA—They say that null results never get published, either in science or in journalism. Well, I'm about to break that rule. Some of the most interesting results to come out of the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting this week concern non-discoveries...
PASADENA—This week I'm here at the annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Much as I enjoy Pasadena, it's rather a comedown from last year's meeting place in Puerto Rico.
Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser has been chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar).
For time to end seems both impossible and inevitable. Recent work in physics suggests a resolution to the paradox
Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar).
Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar).
Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar).
Claiming that something can move faster than light is a good conversation-stopper in physics. People edge away from you in cocktail parties; friends never return phone calls.
A simple twist of fate: An old idea from Roger Penrose excites string theorists
One thing that's both disconcerting and exhilarating about physics is how many seemingly simple questions remain unanswered. When you hear the questions that physicists struggle with, you sometimes say to yourself, Wait, you mean they don't even know that?...
Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar).
