By: Peggy Nelson

In space, nobody can hear you screen

By: Peggy Nelson

Playing the appropriation game.

By: Peggy Nelson

Climate change: all the facts aren’t in? Help gather more!

By: Matthew Battles

VENETIA PHAIR (née Burney), who named the planet Pluto, died on April 30 in Banstead, Surrey. She was 90. In March 1930, Eleven-year old Venetia was talking to her grandfather, Falconer Madan, about the discovery […]

By: Matthew Battles

FREE­LANCERS, GIVE UP your paltry hopes of making a killing by cooking up a killer iPhone app. The Google Lunar X Prize — $30 million to the first private enterprise that lands a rover on […]

By: Matthew Battles

Here’s a quick post pointing to Hulu’s Cosmos channel, where Carl Sagan’s entire groundbreaking PBS series may be streamed for free. Sagan’s series introduced a generation to a universe that was both comprehensible and mystical–an […]

By: Matthew Battles

Among the radio transmissions winging its way to other galaxies from Earth is “Are We Alone,” a program hosted by Seth Shostak of the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life) Project. Recent topics include “The Emergence […]