Michael Reilly's posts

What do you get when you mix a frizzy-haired, grandfatherly chemist with his younger, cackling, explosion-loving…

Your desire to lie around the house isn't because you're a slacker: it's in your genes. New research from…

For a while there in 2004, the newly-discovered asteroid 99942 Apophis looked like it had Earth's number. Then…

Click to viewKnown for spewing liquid rock, ash clouds, and noxious gases into the atmosphere, volcanoes seem…

Whales have given us a reliable source of energy for centuries: oil for our lamps, wax for our candles, and of…

We can't officially call the program Google Disease(tm). But that's essentially what HealthMap is. Developed by…

There is an organism living on this planet who can travel through space without a suit. Cute, unassuming little…

For his new project "Life in Space," artist Nasser Azam plans to paint aboard a "vomit comet"-style airplane ride…

Using animals to grow human body parts has been done, but how about using a live sheep for dialysis? The idea comes…

Click to viewEver since the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet (does it even deserve a…

Imagine waking up one morning and being unable to speak. Your mind still churns away, trying to form words, but no…

Far from just a few hours of psychedelia, a trip on magic mushrooms could stay with you your whole life - in a good…

Donald Olson, an astrophysicist at Texas State University has a habit of taking well-known historical facts and…

One hundred years ago today, June 30th, 1908, a great explosion rained Hell over Siberia, flattening 830 square…

One of the most terrifying, destructive forces in nature may help keep your lights on. Louis Michaud, a retired…

For a small planet, Mars sure knows how to go big. It's about half as large as Earth, but it's got the hugest…

When it comes to regneration, the salamander is nature's gold standard. Scientists have studied the animals for…

With all the space rocks zipping by Earth these days, we're pretty much cruising for an interplanetary bruising.…

One of the most well-respected climatologists in the world, James Hansen was pissed off about global warming way…

When it comes to comet impacts, the denizens of Earth may be living on borrowed time. Of course, comets are only…