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Entropy Can Lead to Order, Paving Route to Nanostructures
Researchers trying to herd tiny particles into useful ordered formations have found an unlikely ally: entropy, a tendency generally...
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Dance as Algorithm: What Happens When an Animated GIF Comes to Life
To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to … the Internet. Blogs comment on blogs commenting on...
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U.S. Federal Court Says Stem Cell Treatments Are Drugs
A U.S. federal court has found that a stem cell therapy offered by a Colorado clinic meets the definition...
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Candidates Pushed to Ensure U.S. Science Leadership
A quest to get more discussion about science and scientific issues in the run-up to this year’s presidential election...
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Planetary Science: The Time Machine
Dating features on the Moon and Mars is guesswork. Scott Anderson is building a tool to change that.
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Genetic Data, Fossil Evidence Tell Differing Tales of Human Origins
After decades of digging, paleoanthropologists looking for fossilized human bones have established a reasonably clear picture: Modern humans arose...
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Why Do We Keep Going Back to Mars?
The huge NASA rover speeding toward an August landing on Mars may be the most capable and complex Red...
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Brain Is Biased When Learning New Information
Your brain may be more likely to recognize new things as new when the unknown is already on your...
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Evolving Towards Murder: The Hare, the Tortoise, and the Aurora Madman
From David Barash’s post, The Hare, the Tortoise, and the Aurora Madman, in reaction to the tragedy in Colorado,...
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Actinobacteria as the Base of the Evolutionary Tree
Ever since Darwin first published The Origin of the Species, scientists have been striving to identify a last universal...