TheSkyNet, a community computing project dedicated to astronomy that was initiated by the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, Western Australia,  is…

The world has plenty of water but not where people actually live. Arid regions lack both water and the energy to make water potable. Ironically, the energy needed to make water potable or ship it to…

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong" H.L. Mencken

I'm selling two of my guitars and an anecdote about one of them typifies the difference between a sane hippie and the anti-science kind. In 2002 I bought a 1968 D-35 12 string guitar (D-12-35 is…

The circular stone enclosures known as the temple at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey remain the oldest of its kind, dating back to around the 10th millennium B.C.  But Göbekli Tepe may also…

If you have confidence in the future of science, you might be inclined to believe that a technology solution decades from now could make CO2 clean-up cheaper and more effective than what is available…

Astronomers have provided the best three-dimensional map yet of the central parts of the Milky Way. It shows that the inner regions take on a peanut-like appearance from some angles. This odd shape…

Cilantro, a favorite ingredient in spicy cuisine, may also be an inexpensive new way of purifying drinking water, according to research done by undergraduate students at Ivy Tech Community College.…

A 20 year effort to allow avocados from Hawaii has paid off - the USDA lifted a ban that's been in place since 1992, after fruit fly larvae was found in a Sharwil avocados packing house in Hawaii.…

Moore's Law, originating in 1965 [1], is an observation of transistor density on a single CPU core increasing exponentially with time. Futurists such as Ray Kurzweil [2] extend this to the claim that…