Sometimes, even the great, pivotal figures in science don't get their due. In today's very special "Ask a…
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It may seem as though every new day brings an announcement of a scientific breakthrough of the highest order. Should…
Robert Frost famously noted that,"Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice." Lucky us! We're pretty…
I've spent the last three years writing the "Ask a Physicist" column in which you folks have sent me some great…
Despite our successes at describing the inner workings of the universe (Higgs, anyone?), there are still some gaping…
Black holes have a justifiably terrifying reputation. If you drop your keys in there, forget them, because they…
The day is finally here! My new book, The Universe in the Rearview Mirror, is being released today! Many of the…
The Standard Model of particle physics is a triumph of science. It's a collection of 17 particles, and four forces.…
In Einstein's universe, spacetime is supposed to be some crazy rubber sheet full of folds and bends. But the idea…
Do you find our galaxy too confining? Do you long for the vast expanses of extragalactic space? Now, you can make…
Except for the occasional earthquake or volcano eruption, the Earth seems like a fairly stable place. But if you…
Good news, everyone! On July 11, Dutton will be releasing my new book, The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How…
One day, our own galaxy will collide with Andromeda — and when that happens, poor defenseless Earth will be smashed…
Antimatter is mysterious, dangerous, and rare. In fiction, it's at the core of Isaac Asimov's positronic brains, the…
There's overwhelming evidence that the universe is accelerating. This means that the future is going to be a…
This week, the Planck Satellite team announced major findings from over a year of observations of the Cosmic…
The headline discovery out of the LHC was, of course, the Higgs Boson. But the LHC is no one-trick pony. The search…
What is Absolute Zero, and does it really exist anywhere in the universe? Could we ever reach Absolute Zero in real…
We spend a lot of time thinking about futurism, but the past is pretty interesting, too. In this week's "Ask a…