The Science of Things

My first thought on hearing of the swine flu outbreak was that society continues to go 1970's retro. Last I heard of it was around 1976...

The National Zoo is celebrating the arrival of 2 clouded leopard cubs. All of a half pound each, the cats were born on March 24. This is t...

DNA analysis almost 100 years after the crime solves the mystery. In 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the members of the Roma...

I always think of math as this rigid subject. 2+2=4, etc. Can't change that. That's why I absolutely love the term "irratio...

The turning of the calendar leads us to the first whiff of spring, and in my book spring means BASEBALL! Now, you ask. What does ba...

Now they've sequenced the woolly mammoth! How awesome is that?! Not only have they sequenced about 80% of its genome, but they've ...

I've been too busy to post much lately, if anyone has noticed. But I heard this story recently on NPR that was just so cool that I had ...