Space & PhysicsMay 21, 2012
SpaceX Trying Again Early Tuesday to Reach International Space Station
Stories by John Matson
John Matson is a former reporter and editor for Scientific American who has written extensively about astronomy and physics.
EvolutionMay 16, 2012
Animal Tracks: Music about Unusual Creatures Features Some Unusual Instruments [Video]
EnvironmentMay 11, 2012
Earth-Facing Sunspots Could Erupt This Weekend
The SciencesMay 10, 2012
Israel's Science Minister on Space Technology-for Peaceful and Militaristic Aims
The SciencesMay 10, 2012
Ancient Time: Earliest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Unearthed in Guatemala Ruins
The ninth-century wall paintings predate existing Mayan astronomical records by hundreds of years
Space & PhysicsMay 2, 2012
Big Gulp: Flaring Galaxy Marks the Messy Demise of a Star in a Supermassive Black Hole
A close look at a distant cataclysm indicates that the black hole's victim was a red giant star
EnvironmentMay 1, 2012
Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry
Where fresh foods are scarce, so is good health
Space & PhysicsApril 29, 2012
Mars and Mercury Star at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The annual Texas gathering of planetary scientists featured new research from across the solar system, as well as a good deal of anger directed at politicians looking to cut back on planetary exploration
Space & PhysicsApril 27, 2012
Space Shuttle Enterprise Graces New York City with a Flyby
Space & PhysicsApril 18, 2012
When It Comes to Solar Storms, We Don t Even Know How Bad It Might Get
The SciencesApril 11, 2012
Bits of the Future: First Universal Quantum Network Prototype Links 2 Separate Labs
Physicists demonstrate a scalable quantum network that ought to be adaptable for all manner of long-distance quantum communication
The SciencesApril 5, 2012
Nanorama: Graphene Bubbles Showcase Liquids with Atomic-Scale Resolution
Ultrathin carbon sheets can shield fluids from the vacuum conditions inside electron microscopes, offering an innovative way of viewing specimens in solution
TechnologyApril 5, 2012
Ship-Safe Seas: Could the Titanic Disaster Happen Again?
Better technology and vigilant monitoring have made the oceans safer, but fatal accidents continue to occur
Space & PhysicsApril 1, 2012
Space Age Wasteland: Debris in Orbit Is Here to Stay
Even without future launches, low Earth orbit will remain polluted
Space & PhysicsApril 1, 2012
New Data Suggest Mars Once Held an Ocean
The Red Planet may have once been home to an ocean
Space & PhysicsMarch 28, 2012
Amazon s Jeff Bezos Says He Has Located Apollo 11 Rocket Engines Lost at Sea
Space & PhysicsMarch 28, 2012
New Maps of Mercury Show Icy Looking Craters on the Solar System's Innermost Planet
A NASA spacecraft bolsters the case that ice lines the inside of polar craters on Mercury
The SciencesMarch 23, 2012
Evidence for Flowing Water on Mars Grows Stronger
Liquid remains the leading explanation for newly discovered streaks on Martian slopes
Space & PhysicsMarch 20, 2012
Mars Attacked: Planetary Scientists Vent Frustrations over Proposed Budget Cuts
The SciencesMarch 16, 2012
Not So Fast: Independent Measurement Shows Neutrinos Don t Exceed Speed of Light
The SciencesMarch 16, 2012
Message Encoded in Neutrino Beam Transmitted through Solid Rock
Space & PhysicsMarch 14, 2012
Where Did the Sun Come from? The Search Continues
The SciencesMarch 12, 2012
A Bit of Progress: Diamonds Shatter Quantum Information Storage Record
Researchers show how to store quantum bits at room temperature using a less complex process for seconds at a time
The SciencesMarch 8, 2012
Flavor of the Ray: Neutrino Measurement May Help Solve Mystery of Matter's Domination over Antimatter
In less than two months of operation, an experiment at a Chinese nuclear power plant has measured one of the missing parameters that describes neutrino behavior