Is geekness important in your choice of a Republican candidate? Maybe to the five Republicans who still read Scientific American it is - and progressive scribe Chris Mims is here to outline the…

Is geekness important in your choice of a Republican candidate? Maybe to the five Republicans who still read Scientific American it is - and progressive scribe Chris Mims is here to outline the…

  Over in print media today, New Scientist's cover article was on a "new" idea for what dark matter is. Apparently, dark matter should be composed of Dark Atoms, in a theory introduced by…

Through my colleague Marco Cirelli I got to know about the effort of 36 high-school student of Charlottesville (VA), who are fund-raising for a trip to CERN this spring. I thus visited their home…

Photo: Michele Pokrandt Orchidaceae get their name from the Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), which literally means "testicle", a nod to the naughty nub shape of their roots. In Greek mythology, Orchis was…

Dragonflies, from the order Odonata, have been around for over 250 million years.  I've seen fossil dragonflies from the Eocene some 50 million years ago that would have been exquisite monsters…

Time to ring in a new year with pressure waves.  We can see, but not, hear true sonic waves generated from stars, as the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope is finding.  We also get to…

For the last two days we have had our BBC television naturalist Chris Packham presenting us with “Nature’s Weirdest Events”. Here are my three favourites from this session. Exploding toads In…

Welcome to the world's slowest clock. The 'argon-argon clock' works by measuring the ratio of the amount of radioactive potassium in a sample of rock to the amount of its decay product, argon. As…

It's not correlation/causation (though less and less is, since science has learned that causation is now teaching us less and less about how to actually fix things) but some in the social fields are…

One of the most effective arguments for science solutions to agriculture issues is the misuse of pesticides.  It's one area where activists and scientists agree. Brown planthoppers are one of a…

Precognition is under scientific investigation, though often with the aim to obtain null-results in order to discredit such ideas. In fact, “extra-sensory perception” (ESP) and “precognition”, “…

A latest report on the Internet shows that the number of internet subscriptions in Kenya reached 4.7 million in the quarter from October to December 2010, as compared to 3.2 million at the end…

If you have not already read the hysterical Texts from Cephalopods, you must do so. Preferably somewhere that it is acceptable to shriek or snort with laughter. However, beforehand, you must prepare…

Existing methods for removing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and other sources, including the atmosphere, are energy intensive, don't work well and have other drawbacks but solid materials based on…

Existing methods for removing carbon dioxide from smokestacks and other sources, including the atmosphere, are energy intensive, don't work well and have other drawbacks but solid materials based on…

MANY TIMES I THOUGHT THAT WHAT IS THE MOST FASTEST MODE OF DATA COMMUNICATION.IS IT THE ONLY WAY TO COMMUNICATE IN BINARY UNIT. NO. FASTEST MODE OF COMMUNICATION IS TIME INTERVAL SO I AM  DOING…

Squid Drop is an iPhone game* based on the premise that squid are negatively buoyant. Any serious iGamers must ask themselves: is it true? Barring the application of any external forces, would a…

Here's a bet: Can you revive an old laptop computer thrown in the garbage, not by repairing its internal components but by using augmented reality, thus transforming this inert, rain-soaked…

Here's a bet: Can you revive an old laptop computer thrown in the garbage, not by repairing its internal components but by using augmented reality, thus transforming this inert, rain-soaked…