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n nA big hat tip to the Soviet military-industrial-space complex: on April 19, 1971 — exactly 36 years ago today — the Soviets launched the first-ever operational space station, known […]

The situation at Fukushima has stabilized—if your conception of stable is hanging off a cliff by your fingernails. 

There has long been a desire to prove a connection between Earth’s geological activity and the gravitational resonance of the moon and the sun. Is there any truth to this claim?

We’ve all been floored by the footage and information about the Mw8.9 earthquake in Japan (video) and the tsunami that followed. Some of the footage is stunning – like nothing I’ve […]

The next time you take in a movie, you may be getting a lesson in cutting-edge physics without even knowing it. Many special effects would be impossible without fluid dynamics.

First of all, let me say that I love Cirque Du Soleil and I’ve been to one of their shows in New York City and one of their shows in […]

The extent to which massive growth in commercial fishing is depleting the sea’s biodiversity has become source of a heated debate within the world of marine fisheries science.

I had a fun time last night speaking to the Licking County Rock and Mineral Club – lots of talk about volcanoes and we spent some time talking about our […]

The massive droughts in China underscore the fact that we’re simply running out of the freshwater needed to sustain the earth’s nearly 7 billion people. How can we fix this problem? 

If the eruption at Kirishima wasn’t enough to keep us occupied, Bromo in the Tengger Caldera has ramped up its activity significantly. Last fall, the volcano had a few explosive […]

Want to get a some more volcano news from aspiring bloggers in my First Year class? Check out their first posts on the blog for the class – we’ll be […]

Last week, I introduced a course I am teaching this semester on “Science, Environment, and the Media,” and asked students as well as readers to describe in the comment sections […]

Regular readers may recall some of my despatches from the Maldives in the Indian Ocean last year. I had been asked to go there in order to meet with President […]

There are plenty of places on Earth that seem alien to us. The deep sea is a perfect example: it’s been said that we know more about Mars than we do about the bottom of the ocean.

About 27 percent of all gene families that exist today were born between 3.3 billion and 2.8 billion years ago, two researchers from MIT have reported in Nature.

Ocean pollution has been a topic of increasing concern lately and its devastating aftermath for marine life has been grimly documented. To raise awareness about the issue, Electrolux has introduced […]

Space pioneer Elon Musk hopes to put his name in the history books once again next week, with the planned launch and recovery of the first commercially-operated spacecraft from orbit.

A firestorm of speculation has been generated by a notice from NASA announcing a major discovery in the field of astrobiology, to be released today at 2 p.m. According to […]

As science shows our planet could warm by as much as seven degrees, researchers predict what problems that could cause. Discovery News reports on current warming targets.

Richard Thaler of the U of Chicago catalogs wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods of time, the flat earth and geocentric world among them.

One of the major strategic communication battles that took place during the debate over cap and trade legislation was the advertising war between the Clean Coal Coalition and Al Gore’s […]

I spent most of the weekend with some sort of cold/flu/virus, so I’m only now catching up with all the goings-on that I missed over the weekend (not that my […]

If you read as much about art as I do, things that seem unrelated on the surface tend to pool together in the eddies of my consciousness. Two unrelated concepts […]

Airbus engineer Yelken Octuri has designed a spaceship especially for honeymooners. Once in orbit, the craft releases honeymoon pods with a view of space and big, round bed.

To save the auto industry, Washington needed a group with financial and restructuring skills–and somebody who had a sense of Washington even if they hadn’t worked in the government.

Here it is, the answers to your volcanic questions for Dr. Clive Oppenheimer. His new book, Eruptions that Shook the World, comes out this week and I’ll have a review […]

Research into the possibility of engineering a better climate is progressing at an impressive rate—and meeting strong opposition. The Economist reports.

“Self-driving cars, a windmill farm in the middle of the ocean—what is the search giant up to? As with its once-baffling investments in the likes of YouTube, Android and Wave, we’ll see.”

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLE Richard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, […]

An inventor believes he has solved the riddle of how to get humans exploring serious ocean depths previously too dangerous to investigate—by getting us to breathe liquid like fish.