Once a decade, I buy a pair of good sunglasses. I didn't know I was doing that, it wasn't intentional, I only realized it when I bought a pair of Persol sunglasses in 2005 that my wife mentioned it…

Once a decade, I buy a pair of good sunglasses. I didn't know I was doing that, it wasn't intentional, I only realized it when I bought a pair of Persol sunglasses in 2005 that my wife mentioned it…

More than 60% of traffic collisions at intersections involve left turns. Some U.S. cities – including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Birmingham, Alabama – are restricting left turns. Dr. Vikash…

The year is 2028. After Congress voted that he need not heed Supreme Court decisions, Donald J. Trump declared himself king. After denouncing as fake news the perfectly true fact that he…

People dedicated to the art of grilling often choose lump charcoal – actual pieces of wood that have been turned into charcoal – over briquettes, which are compressed charcoal dust with other…

In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of…

Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't get more pro-science by becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services, he instead acts like his beliefs in The…

In less than a week, France is implementing a ban on cigarettes in some public spaces, like near schools or on beaches. While this may not be a public health win right away, any more than boycotting…

In less than a week, France is implementing a ban on cigarettes in some public spaces, like near schools or on beaches. While this may not be a public health win right away, any more than boycotting…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing. Many of the grant…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released the first image using the largest camera in the world. The 3200-megapixel resolution wide field of view Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released the first image using the largest camera in the world. The 3200-megapixel resolution wide field of view Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera…

Let’s bury the dangerous, lazy, and politically convenient idea that there exists a distinct species of person called a "nuclear scientist." There is no such thing. There are physicists. Some…

In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill' - a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return - wanted to…

Scholars have developed a method to encode binary and Morse code messages in ice. A 'message in a bubble' has limited practical utility, information storage in Antarctica and the Arctic is…

The discovery of the Denisovans 15 years ago set off a chain of evolutionary research into how they contributed to modern East Asians and Oceanians. A new study adds evidence. Researchers have…

In the Cradles of Civilization, there are entire cities covered in sand that were once thriving places. The climate shifted and humans did with it. One of our greatest cultural achievements has been…

Over 40 years ago, President Ronald Reagan, the most pro-science president of the 20th century, proposed a lot of bold initiatives. A Superconducting Super Collider was one goal, a big boost for…

Screen time is a concern for parents and mental health advocates but looking at screen time may be treating the symptom rather than the disease. What is a true harbinger for risk of mental health…

   I learned a lot last week by listening to the New Mexico Tech Talks https://www.linkedin.com/company/nm-tech-talks/, and by participating in a related podcast https://lnkd.in/gP8mciQS.…