At Jonathan Rosenberg's excellent "Scenes From A Multiverse" ... Get ripped in defiance of conventional physics: Dark Energy brand energy drink replaces 74% of your muscles with Dark Muscles. …

At Jonathan Rosenberg's excellent "Scenes From A Multiverse" ... Get ripped in defiance of conventional physics: Dark Energy brand energy drink replaces 74% of your muscles with Dark Muscles. …

If you can withstand a two hour wait in the queue (on Sunday the 18th July) to purchase the ticket costing Euro 25 for the Palace and gardens there is no other place as beautiful as the garden of the…

It used to be filled with water.

Bridges That Build Themselves The two oldest types of bridge are the arch bridge and the corbel bridge.  It takes a lot of time and effort to build them, but they can last for thousands of years…

I  don't get why science writers don't cover science education. They cover whatever cool science is the flavor of the moment, they cover disasters and the science behind them, they cover…

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist? It isn't just pageview-whoring…

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist? It isn't just pageview-whoring…

Big news, school lunch eaters - your rectangle-shaped pizza will soon be burned and served up cold1 with less sodium! Schwan's Food Service, based in the lovely state of Minnesota, is ahead of…

I expect most of you have heard this song, with its sad words.  It’s full of letters sad and blue, a photograph or two, roses, tokens …. Not for me!  But as I am clearing out our chemical…

Scienceblogs.com stalwart Bora Zivkovic has bid farewell to that site, the latest in a series of defections they hyper-dramatize as a 'diaspora' due to recent events, but he says it isn't about…

I was relaxing out back, watching fireflies flash, when a buddy, dad to boy and girl 11 year old twins, called to catch up with news and relate a funny (still unfinished) story. Growing crankier by…

I am playing with Coq and Isabelle now :) Formalizing the following: fun p(a) = if (p(a) % 2 = 0) then (p(a div 2)) else (a).The greatest divisor of a, which is power of two = p(a). I want to show…

Jakobshavn Glacier Second Calving ?The calving front of Jakobshavn glacier has retreated dramatically since about 1850, to the point that the two main outflow ice streams can be seen as separate…

Most of us are good at one thing; sports or science - Josh Witten is an exception but he may have found his match in Sweden's Elin Ekblom-Bak, who jacks up goals for a professional women's football…

Most of us are good at one thing; sports or science - Josh Witten is an exception but he may have found his match in Sweden's Elin Ekblom-Bak, who jacks up goals for a professional women's football…

Strange creatures have been inhabiting London’s construction sites. Artist Zara Gaze knows more about their nocturnal origins. Artist Zara Gaze calls the installations “sandalism” - I call it…

Strange creatures have been inhabiting London’s construction sites. Artist Zara Gaze knows more about their nocturnal origins. Artist Zara Gaze calls the installations “sandalism” - I call it…