How Kilauea’s Lava Invades Neighborhoods
Once again Kilauea volcano’s lava has intruded into human territory in Hawaii. Scientists are trying …
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Mars Lander Will Peer Inside the Red Planet
The InSight Mission will look at Mars’s seismic activity and latent heat to find out …
The "Clips" Camera Just Might Be the Weirdest Product Ever
Google’s Clips camera is a tiny sliver of a camera, the size of two Wheat …
The Best Social Anxiety Hacks for Any Occasion
We’ve all been there: alone in the elevator with your boss, walking into a …
Sniffing and Peeking at Mars
Although it arrived at Mars back in October 2016, the ESA/Roscosmos mission called ExoMars Trace …
Eberth and Evans’s Hadrosaurs, a Book Review, Part 1
Surely the best known of (non-bird) dinosaurs are the hadrosaurs or hadrosaurids, that Cretaceous, mostly …
Global Tourism Has a Bigger Share of Carbon Emissions Than Thought
International tourism accounts for 8 percent of all carbon emissions worldwide—about three times more than …
Eberth and Evans’s Hadrosaurs, a Book Review, Part 2
Here’s the second part of my review of the Indiana University Press 2014 book Hadrosaurs, …
The Metonymy of Matrices
I was enchanted with the words metonymy and synecdoche when I learned them in a …
Darwin, the Galápagos and the Evolution of Basalt
That whole biological evolution thing that Charles Darwin figured out quite often makes people ignore …
A Super-Simple, Non-Quantum Theory of Eternal Consciousness
Which is more fundamental, mind or matter? You would think, in our ultra-materialistic era, that …
Plants Can Sense Animal Attack Coming
Tomato plants detected snail slime in soil near them and mounted preemptive defenses, even though …
U.S. Cities Lose Tree Cover Just When They Need It Most
Scientific evidence that trees and green spaces are crucial to the well-being of people in …
Rethinking the Narrative of Diversity in Science
Esteban Burchard is Latino. He grew up in poverty, raised by a single mother, and …
Particle Physicists Turn to AI to Cope with CERN’s Collision Deluge
Physicists at the world’s leading atom smasher are calling for help. In the next decade, …
Who Speaks Up in the Face of Uncivil Behavior?
Have you ever been out in public and seen someone do something outrageous? Maybe you …
The Belly Fat Battle
Among the indignities of aging is a creeping tendency to put on weight, as our …
People Who Understand Evolution Are More Likely to Accept It
Science denialism can seem intractable, and studies on the topic are seldom encouraging. For example, …