The Science Salon

Do you ever have an 'aha' moment when someone describes to you very well how something works? Sometimes that happens to me. “I get ...

My science writing mentor at UCR has raved about the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop, and now I'm in Santa Fe to experience it for my...

When learning physics, you pick up math skills. But there's a problem when students only learn how to choose equations and plug in the r...

Here is a great dark energy FAQ from Sean Carroll, a physicist at CalTech. Einstein's greatest blunder (?) In 1917 Einstein added a...

*picture from NASA Three American-born physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday. Thirteen years ago they first made the startl...

Do studies predict the worst? In Nature’s Trend Watch last week the prevalence of obesity in the US and the UK is projected to grow from 32...

I'm very excited: an opinion article I wrote about why we need more exposure early on for science and math education is published in the...