Stories by Steve Nadis

Ten items or more? Gleaning insights from daily tasks

The ocean's tiniest inhabitants, notes biological oceanographer Sallie W. Chisholm, hold the key to understanding the biosphere--and what happens when humans disturb it

With a shoestring budget, asteroid and comet watcher Brian Marsden looks out for Armageddon from the skies--and not without controversy

Yucca Mountain is set to become the nation's prime nuclear waste site, but geologist Rodney C. Ewing thinks that federal enthusiasm for it has outstripped the science

X-ray tests show how to deflect an incoming asteroid

Funnyman Marc Abrahams tackles an improbable role and an Ig Nobel cause

A firm wants to add nutrients to the ocean to create fisheries and soak up carbon dioxide