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The Future of Population Control in China
When you think of the booming population of China, it is easy to focus on China’s megacities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, but according to research by global consultants McKinsey, by the...
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What’s all the Buzz about Pollinators?
It’s been in all the headlines: monarch butterflies are in decline, honey bees are experiencing colony collapse disorder (CCD), and our future food supply appears to be in peril. The importance of...
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How OLEDs work: the science behind OLED technology
The days of tube televisions already feels like a distant memory. In the 21st century, glorious high-definition units have replaced them. These marvels of technology possess a fraction of the weight...
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Sure We Need Scientists, But We Also Need Scientific Literacy
As long as there are questions, humans will seek answers, as well as better means by which to seek and validate them. Science as a process for knowing will undoubtedly remain a vitally important part...
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What Effect Will Legalizing Marijuana Have on Addiction and Treatment?
Is Legal Pot a Good Thing?
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Tracing the Transformation of Bird Watching to a Mainstream Pastime
Allan Cruickshank was a renowned National Audubon Society lecturer, photographer and author who co-published several books and field guides with his wife, Helen. Along with his cohorts--most notably...
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The Crocodilian Revolution
Virtually every popular or scientific description of crocodilians, from Herodotus two thousand years ago to school textbooks of the 1990s, calls crocodilians not just lazy, but stupid (even if more...
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Intelligent design without a creator? Why evolution may be smarter than we...
The exciting implication of this is that evolution can evolve to get better at evolving in exactly the same way that a neural network can learn to be a better problem solver with experience.
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Mysterious chimpanzee behaviour may be evidence of ‘sacred’ rituals
"Nothing like this had been seen before and it gave me goose bumps."
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How Antiquated Accounting Costs American Science Millions a Year
The arbitrary $5000 lower limit for defined equipment purchases in the U.S. results in millions of dollars of lost science funding per year.
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How astronomers could find the ‘real’ planet Krypton
Since the very earliest Superman comic strips, it has been depicted as a rocky planet similar to Earth, but much older.
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Of Elephants and Extinction: Reflecting Back 220 Years
This is a guest post by Julie Tolman Thompson, Associate Professor, School of STEM at American Military University. April 4 commemorates a significant date in the history of science. On this day in...
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How to launch a rocket into space … and then land it on a ship at sea
On Friday 8 April 2016, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a mission to deliver a spacecraft called Dragon with its payload of supplies and experiments into a trajectory towards the International Space...
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Pseudoscience and conspiracy theory are not victimless crimes against science
Astronomer Carl Sagan once said: "In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and...
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Richard Warke, others confident in new mining tech, green initiatives
Earlier this year, the province of Ontario celebrated an illustrious milestone: the most populated Canadian province became the first jurisdiction in North America to completely eliminate the use of...
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The Age Of Data Is Paradise For Hackers
Remember what they said during World War II: “Loose lips sink ships.” If the data is out there, it could come back and haunt you down the line.
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Celebrating the 55th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s Suborbital Flight
A guest post by Steven B. Newman, Ph.D., Faculty Member, School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math at American Public University Ask most Americans which three astronauts they remember most,...
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Checking Your Sources: Reliable Third Party Research Groups
Many companies, organizations, and even government agencies rely on solid scientific research from trusted third-party researchers. Below, I will introduce some of the most reliable and well-known...
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What makes a mathematical genius?
The story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an exceptionally talented, self-taught Indian mathematician, seems to suggest that mathematical ability is something at least partly innate. But what does the evidence...
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Louis Pasteur, Spontaneous Generation, and Germ Theory
“For I have kept from them, and am still keeping from them, that one thing which is above the power of man to make; I have kept from them the germs that float in the air, I have kept them from life.” -...
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