Stories by Philip and Phylis Morrison

The Needy Porcupine

Philip and Phylis Morrison explore the salty chemistry and nutrition of sodium and potassium

The Big Bang: Wit or Wisdom?

Philip and Phylis Morrison review the way the universe came into existence and how it continues to evolve.

Information Technology, 2500 B.C.

Philip and Phylis Morrison ponder the daily lives of those who first developed the written word some five millennia back.

Gleaning Nuggets

Philip and Phylis Morrison offer their perspective on the enduring nobility of native metals

Anniversary of Needles

Philip and Phylis Morrison celebrate 400 years of magnetic understanding

Hybrid Vigor!

Philip and Phylis Morrison go for a ride in a practical car that guzzles less gasoline

Laws of Calorie Counting

What is the bottom line on the energy we take in? Philip & Phylis Morrison recount the heroic, decade-long effort to find out

Time Exposures

All photography needs time to collect an image, muse Philip & Phylis Morrison, and over very long times, nearly invisible marvels can appear

The Internet as Hardware

Philip & Phylis Morrison take a cyber-pinging journey among Web sites near and far

Netting the Deep Sky

Philip & Phylis Morrison explain how astronomers fix the stars with amazingly fine accuracy, using units from the Babylonians

The Lion Emperors

Once Los Angeles was a match for the present plains of the Serengeti, declare Philip & Phylis Morrison

Sun-Stains

Time Travelers in the Field

Roll Back Malaria

From Prototools to Language

Technology is by no means a recent invention. Philip & Phylis Morrison trace its origins back through our prehistoric ancestry

Books, January 1982

A Christmas survey of books about science for children young and old