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?”

Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor

Arctic ice is melting, atmospheric temperatures are climbing – yet the science is under attack – find out what factors are contributing to climate change skepticism.

You’ve Been Slimed!

From hagfish slime to alien Slime Worlds to the threat of gray goo – get ready to be slimed!

Space Race 2.0

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.

Sex and the SETI

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.

Pave New Worlds

From Avatar’s fictional Pandora to our very real exoplanet discoveries – how to treat new worlds: explore or exploit?

It’s the Science, Cupid!

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.

Who’s on First?

From the birth of galaxies to the earliest human to awarding patents – what it means to be “first” in scientific research, invention, and discovery.

Skeptic Check: Swimming in Denial

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.

Eureka!

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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