Modern Science

I'm not a big fan of politics, but part of the story about North Korea's second nuclear bomb test caught my eye. North Korea announ...

So you know how you learned in high school about carbon dating be a super reliable way of measuring the age of things, since the amount of C...

I heard someone's cellphone go off, so it's time for a pop quiz. Or if you prefer, think of it as a thought experiment. It's t...

Made by the Aussies, it's a greenhouse gas calculator - it determines how much CO_2 you produce in a year (3 tonnes per year per person...

I know there's a few readers of this blog who believe differently from how I do on "hot topic" issues such as global warming, ...

Spitzer (the "IR Hubble") scientists have recently put out an interesting paper implying that the majority of Sun-like stars may f...

Summary: We can't ever know for sure what the future holds. What we can know is the worst case scenario. If that scenario is bad enoug...

In case the title doesn't say it all, here's a little quote: Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. Y...

In case you haven't heard, a spate of earthquakes have hit the Sumatra region of Indonesia in the last 24 hours - more than 60 of them a...