The National Climate Assessment released today by the White House is a masterful piece of science and risk communication Susan Joy Hassol, Senior Science Writer, who turned massive contributions […]
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Every prediction it’s ever made has been verified, except for one. “These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we’re about to see the birth of an entirely […]
Kirk Johnson: It was an amazing discovery that we’re all related, but it was not obvious. It’s not obvious that I’m related to a strawberry.
THE European missions to Asia consisted of very few highly specialized individuals trained in theology and the sciences. Their destination countries – India, Japan, China, and Indochina – were the […]
The secret to cultivating internal energy is to relax the nervous and muscuskeletal system simultaneously. Chi animates the body and makes it alive.
So Cheney Lavonia has a job for me. In Thailand. Could I email her back? The message is spam and the name is fake, but the pseudonym is both mellifluous […]
The FAA has lifted regulations restricting the use of certain electronic devices during flight. However, it’s leaving it up to the airlines to prove how well their planes can tolerate the extra interference.
Last week, game developer Rovio launched Angry Birds Playground, an educational curriculum based on the Finnish national model and targeted towards kindergartners.
Working with Caltech and MinecraftEdu, Google has released a mod for the popular world-building game that provides insights into quantum behavior.
It is truly appalling for people who lead cosseted lives, neglecting their sworn duty to defend the US Constitution, to sneer at those who defend it for free, or at great personal cost.
A three-year project conducted by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds found that only one in five kids had a “realistic and achievable” connection with nature. Unsurprisingly, adults’ attitudes may be to blame.
When people say that an art movement or school “died out,” they usually don’t mean it literally. In the case of the Italian Futurists, however, you can specify the day […]
It was the most promising idea for where new physics might lie. Now that the LHC data is in, is it dead? “The revolution is not an apple that falls when […]
When things don’t add up, it’s a great sign that something amazing is right around the corner. Every Thursday, we take an older post from the Starts With A Bang archives […]
PIPELINES!!!!! Evil! Dangerous! Huge threats to the environment! MUST BE OPPOSED! Could there be a clearer example of how naïve and simplistic we’ve become about the harms of modern […]
We as a culture have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even though we don’t know what these words are and what they mean.
As technology and media continue to evolve at an exponential rate, marketers and consumers alike have started to adopt new practices and behaviors to ensure that they keep pace.
A recent study showed that people who spend most of their days under some form of artificial light can reset their internal clocks to match the sun’s cycle after only a week out in nature.
The area historically believed to be the home of Adam and Eve has been restored to its original marshland, 20 years after Saddam Hussein’s infrastructure projects turned it into a desert.
According to a news report, local officials are promoting them throughout the region because they say they are better at protecting homes and property than dogs.
Possibly hundreds of them are flying right now in a variety of commercial applications. Besides the illegality surrounding their taking pictures, officials are worried about their endangering people, property, or other aircraft.
A victory for common sense, a setback for sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll
Any theory worth its salt, or any law worthy of the name, should welcome challenge.
The image above depicts the body of an albatross that was found on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Extremely lightweight materials allow developers to program a robot to do almost anything a real bird can do, from dives to back flips.
In a previous post, we set American Walt Whitman against Frenchman Arthur Rimbaud. Based on your feedback, Rimbaud won the first set narrowly. So now on to set #2: war.
A plastic pollution survey of the Great Lakes revealed that three of the five contain dangerously high concentrations of “perfectly spherical plastic balls” of the type found in face and body scrubs.
We’re bopping around like little birds on a wire looking at anything that pops up.
As of this weekend, Google has begun testing Project Loon, in which solar-powered balloons flying 12 miles above the Earth to provide Internet to participating locations in New Zealand.