A 'crazy dorky scientist' and Miley fan just couldn't resist making this 'Wrecking Ball' parody. Full lyrics are here.
How not to report science on TV.
NASA reconstructs five billiion years of the history of Mars in a breathtaking animation. There were once lakes and blue skies.
Most scientific fields have been made over with a revolutionary theory at least once in recent centuries. Such makeovers, or paradigm shifts, reorder old knowledge into a new framework. Revolutionary theories succeed when the new framework makes it possible to solve problems that stymied the previous intellectual regime. Here are my favorite revolutions. I’m hoping for more before I die.
Brains of babies who heard melody before birth react more strongly to tune after birth and at four months, scientists say
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Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data - and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions.
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