(CNN) – After a year of tumultuous weather and global change, it should not be surprising that 2012 proved to …
NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
This new global view and animation of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi …
What YOU Need To Know About Iron Fertilization
You’ve likely seen the story already: A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons …
Energy Perception And Policy Reality
As the election nears, energy policy remains a regular topic on the campaign trail. Controversial subjects like arctic drilling and …
On Balancing A Blog, Career, and Motherhood
Lately a lot of readers have been asking why I’m not posting here as often. The truth is, a lot …
No Slate, Romney Did Not “School” The President On Science Policy
As a founding member of ScienceDebate, I must politely disagree with Laura Helmuth’s well-circulated Slate piece entitled, “Romney Out-Debates Obama: …
Obama And Romney Answer Top American Science Questions
In 2007, friends and I launched ScienceDebate – a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative to get presidential candidates to address science and …
No Longer Science Fiction: Data Encoded In DNA
Game-changing research just published in Science.. Geneticists at Harvard have encoded an entire book into DNA: Biology’s databank, DNA has …
After Fukushima, Generations of Abnormal Butterflies In Japan
A sad, but fascinating scientific report in the journal Nature describes the physiological and genetic damage observed in generations of …
Culture of Science
Some curious stipulations lead me to say goodbye to Wired. Three other communities have graciously offered invitations, but after touring …