The Science Salon

There is a whole world to explore within a pinhead. Consider that an atom is roughly seven orders of magnitude smaller than a pinhead, somet...

Richard Feynman was that rare combination of genius and accessibility to the non-physicist. If there was one thing he was confident in it wa...

This week the LA Convention Center was filled with poster boards and precocious students for the Intel International Science and Engineering...

Yesterday I went to a talk held at UCR as part of a science lecture series open to the public. Cheryl Hayashi, a biology professor at UCR, g...

In our continuing adventures with the unnamed pirate, he encounters tigers and treehouses in puzzle number 3. See if you can help the pirate...

In Japan they call it "Tokai", and here in California we call it the "Big One". It's that massive earthquake that...

At my house the TV is tuned to the Japanese channel for NHK’s coverage of the damage and devastation from Friday’s earthquake. It’s relentle...