A drought has left the OC Fisher Reservoir in San Angelo State Park of West Texas almost empty, except for stagnant, dead fish that have made the water a deep red. Credit: Texas Parks and…

A piece of debris from NASA's space shuttle Columbia has been discovered in Texas, eight years after the 2003 disaster that destroyed the spacecraft and killed its seven-astronaut crew during re-…

With several articles recently appearing that were based on various aspects of evolutionary psychology, I thought it would be worth taking a closer look. One of the ironies in examining evolutionary…

My wife and I once saw a rainbow and we discussed how it happened. She listened somewhat patiently for the first few sentences and then told me I was spoiling the magic of the rainbow, like it was…

A new non-deformed energy storage phase change material (PCM) can retain and release heat according to specific temperature requirements - a breakthrough that might make a significant difference to…

The future of networking may mean streaming high-definition movies at blazing fast speeds and the routers are the lights in the room. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,…

Where are we humans going, as a species? If science fiction is any guide, we will genetically evolve like in X-Men, become genetically engineered as in Gattaca, or become cybernetically enhanced like…

What do you get when you mix Mad Men styling, IKEA how-to, and NASA high tech?  In an incredibly terse 1 minute and 28 seconds, with no sound needed, NASA asks "So, You Want to Build a Satellite…

"Particle Accelerators Full of Spin and Fury, Signifying Something" Standard stuff written well. I particularly liked the end: After some 70 trillion collisions, the Large Hadron Collider has seen no…

What is Bedwetting? The medical name for not being able to control urination is Enuresis (pronounced: en-yuh-ree-sis). It is sometimes also called involuntary urination. Nocturnal enuresis is…