The Giant Ocean Tank folks at the New England Aquarium aren't letting Halloween go by without getting some SCUBA attention.    There's a jack-o-lantern underwater: and A Wicked Witch…

The Giant Ocean Tank folks at the New England Aquarium aren't letting Halloween go by without getting some SCUBA attention.    There's a jack-o-lantern underwater: and A Wicked Witch…

Despite my recent obsession with cetaceans, it's important to remember they're not the only cephalopod predators out there. Pretty much anything that can catch a squid will happily chow down on it,…

News from the LHC: the integrated proton-proton luminosity at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy has generously passed the mark of 40 inverse picobarns yesterday. The CMS experiment alone has integrated…

Are you traumatized by terror flicks? Maybe more than you know. Scary  movies actually create a light version of post-traumatic stress disorder. This is what causes bad dreams and irrational…

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts. Henry Blaha

1950s horror movies were primarily irradiated monsters but they also contained a bit of a cultural slam - the heroes were often scientists but they were battling other scientists who were often not…

Dracula orchids tempt flies by masquerading as mushrooms. Goblin spiders lurk unseen in the world's leaf litter. The natural world is often just as haunting as the macabre costumes worn on city…

Biogeochemists say new evidence linking glacial events during the "Snowball Earth" period to the rise of early animals.  The controversial Snowball Earth hypothesis, which originated in 1964 due…

After watching "Five Million Years To Earth", a terrific mix of science, horror and anthropology, it's no crime to associate British horror cinema with Hammer Films, even though that was not one…

Home schoolers will tell you they knew this (and results bear them out) found that the effect on a child's educational attainment was, in order; 1) parents' effort is more important than the school…

Home schoolers will tell you they knew this (and results bear them out) found that the effect on a child's educational attainment was, in order; 1) parents' effort is more important than the school…

Artist and astrophotographer Alan Friedman talked to Wired blogger Lisa Grossman about he got an incredible photo of the Sun in his downtown Buffalo, NY backyard - and you can too. He hooked his…

Artist and astrophotographer Alan Friedman talked to Wired blogger Lisa Grossman about he got an incredible photo of the Sun in his downtown Buffalo, NY backyard - and you can too. He hooked his…

This week I agree to give an invited talk at the AGU, soldered some more of my satellite, advised a student, gave several short lectures, and edited some papers.  All of these are things…

Here we have two words, one in Arabic and one in Hebrew, which scholars of those languages will have no difficulty in recognizing as descending from the same ancient Semitic source. In Arabic the…

It's bad enough that San Francisco football fans are ridiculed, what with drinking white wine spritzers in the stands and all that.   Now baseball fans are becoming famous for being stoners.…

It's bad enough that San Francisco football fans are ridiculed, what with drinking white wine spritzers in the stands and all that.   Now baseball fans are becoming famous for being stoners.…

The debate on biofuel vs. food is more of less like the suggestion of a person when we were taking plantion in a park area near our home some 25 years ago. We planted 400 trees almost at the…

It's impossible that some in science protest anti-science thinking in defiance of evidence yet continue to regard "Silent Spring" as an accurate waypoint regarding science policy.    A…