What Color Is An Orange ? A question like that, here at science20.com, just has to be a trick question. It is possible, by the application of common sense arguments, to prove to a scientific level of…

You may not know this, but Twitter is actually not that great.   The website itself is clunky. Add-ons are what made it successful.   Sometimes Twitter has acquired them, like with…

As I wrote on facebook (for the sign of a professional writer is 'reuse words often'): It's official! As of today I am Professor Antunes, an aerospace engineering assistant professor at Capitol…

    My right middle finger clicks the button to wake my mind. Greensboro (NC), 4:30 AM, Sunday morning, Holiday Inn balcony. Complimentary Styrofoam cup of warm coffee and a…

   Object: a book         Location: high shelf, exact location unknown   Agent: Swarmanoid, robot swarm consisting out of three types of robot.…

As of today, I am one year on Science2.0. A year ago, I wrote “Welcome to my first blog entry ever!”; since then, I have written almost 120 articles, which made me about a dollar each – a great way…

If you've read Science 2.0 for any length of time, you've seen Bayes' Theorem - mostly in sports.  We use it to predict who will win the baseball playoffs, for example.   Bayes’s theorem,…

As I said in our earlier piece outlining how perhaps SETI had outlived its usefulness given modern knowledge, the success metric was that a civilization more than 400 years away - because we know…

One of the earliest lessons science students learn is that a beam of light travels in a straight line and fan out, or diffract, as they travel. Recently it was discovered that light rays can travel…

Assuming you don't have the space for a smelly compost heap but want to be as environmentally responsible as possible, what’s the most responsible way to dispose of a banana peel, or any other food…