People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about...
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup, will fly so close to Earth, that it will dip below the altitude of our communication sate...
The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extr...
The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled or...
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad d...
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made...
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
You know that passage in the Bible that says, And the meek shall inherit the Earth? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, And the geek shall inherit the Earth.
When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilenc...
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothin...
For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhe...
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.