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Alan Guth, the discoverer of cosmic inflation, gave a talk at MIT on November 1, which convinced me, a natural skeptic about these issues, that the multiverse may very well exist. Two routes to the multiverse were never to my liking. One is "Many Worl ...

Article - Amir D. Aczel - Nov 5 2012 - 9:19pm - 0 attachments

Three reasons why government can look less efficient than it really is: 1. Cherry-picking in privatization. Let’s suppose we could rank government agencies or services in descending order of productivity: 1, 2, 3, and so on, with agency 1 being t ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Oct 21 2012 - 12:25am - 0 attachments

... dinosaurs as "walking pulp mills," said, "We were stunned to find that the mechanical properties of the teeth were preserved ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2012 - 4:54pm - 0 attachments

Could the big split among anti-science hippies occur over a cute little cat? PETA loves animals.  Greenpeace hates genetic modification and science in general because changes are only 'natural' if high-energy cosmic rays mutate things at random. W ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2012 - 9:20am - 0 attachments

As the story was told to me, the realization that my eyes were “different” wasn’t discovered until I’d been home from the hospital for a couple weeks. You know how it is - newborns sleep a lot, and eye contact is a bit limited when you’ve got a little one ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Sep 7 2009 - 12:28am - 0 attachments

Our bodies sense painful stimuli through certain receptors located in the skin, in joints and many internal organs. Specialized nerve fibers relay these signals coming from the periphery to the brain, where pain becomes conscious. “The spinal cord is pl ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2008 - 5:43pm - 0 attachments

... if one or more of my horses should become infected. I was stunned to learn that not a lot is known about HeV and more scientific research ...

Blog Post - Helen Barratt - Aug 5 2011 - 3:24am - 0 attachments

It never fails--I take some time off, and a giant squid shows up! A few years ago, it was a half-eaten carcass found floating in Monterey Bay. Every teuthologist dreams of a giant squid sighting in her backyard, but Fate's wicked sense of humor had me ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jul 5 2011 - 6:10pm - 0 attachments

Both in her recent appearance on KQED’s Forum talk show and in her blog , Stanford University’s Joan Roughgarden continues her campaign to discredit me and my book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. Roughgarden’s rate of false accusations per ...

Article - Michael Bailey - Sep 5 2007 - 11:33am - 0 attachments

Ettore Majorana was maybe the most brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, and an outstanding physicist. He disappeared on March 25th 1938 at the age of 32 years, under mysterious circumstances and leaving no trace behind. The hypothesis that he committed suic ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 8 2011 - 3:41pm - 0 attachments