Physics Phrontiers
If it doesn’t give you blisters or frostbite it’s not modern physics – stories of scientists who go to the ends of the earth to answer the question “why does the universe exist?”
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If it doesn’t give you blisters or frostbite it’s not modern physics – stories of scientists who go to the ends of the earth to answer the question “why does the universe exist?”
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Arctic ice is melting, atmospheric temperatures are climbing – yet the science is under attack – find out what factors are contributing to climate change skepticism.
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From hagfish slime to alien Slime Worlds to the threat of gray goo – get ready to be slimed!
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It’s goodnight moon from President Obama, as he calls for canceling the program that would return astronauts to the moon by 2020 – we consider the future of space exploration, look at rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun in a new, harsher light, and ask whether you can really buy property on the moon.
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Find out why spiders are cannibalistic, dolphins are the friskiest of mammals, whether E.T. would have sex, and why sexual reproduction evolved in the first place.
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From Avatar’s fictional Pandora to our very real exoplanet discoveries – how to treat new worlds: explore or exploit?
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All you need is love, and all love needs is basic chemistry: from the love potions of field mice to researchers cracking the science of kissing.
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From the birth of galaxies to the earliest human to awarding patents – what it means to be “first” in scientific research, invention, and discovery.
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New Yorker writer Michael Specter argues how our anti-science bias endangers our future, and we look back at the scientists who pooh-poohed the existence of plate tectonics, meteors, and quantum physics.
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From DNA to the expansion of the universe, scientific discoveries continue to amaze us – find out what it takes to make a breakthrough.
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