Bill Nye "the Science Guy" and Emmy award winner,  is opening a 'climate lab' at the Chabot Space&Science Center in Oakland.  It is designed for 10-year-olds but, really, isn't all…

Burt Rutan, who designed the first private manned rocket to reach space, has announced he will retire next year.    Though everyone in aviation knew him well (including this blogger's…

You've all heard of global warming but global dimming has gotten less attention - because it can be confusing that cooling would be bad when warming is bad. Global dimming is when fossil fuel burning…

Concerned about rising political attacks regarding climate change research, 700 members of the American Geophysical Union are going to wade further into the political muck and campaign against…

It seems not everyone is in love with The Steve. Inon Beracha is the CEO of PrimeSense, the company that created the hardware fueling Microsoft's Kinect device and Apple was the first he wanted to…

"Far from being conservative, the Republican stance on global warming shows a stunning appetite for risk", writes Bracken Hendricks in the Washington Post.    First, of course, is the error…

If you are reading this site, you already know "Battlestar Galactica" is the greatest science-fiction show of all time.  Yes, yes, "Farscape" was terrific and "Star Trek" set the standard but…

Can plasma be beautiful?   Surely, anything can, but physicists are luckier than most because when they probe the mysteries of plasma, the fourth state of matter, they often discover phenomena…

The big knock on huge wind or solar farms in developed countries is whose back yard the new power lines will run through.   Off-shore wind farms or solar farms in remote deserts may be a…

MELBOURNE, Australia, November 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited , today announced that its United States associate company, Angioblast Systems, has been…