The Science Salon

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...

What do you think of when you picture southern California? The breezy beach, a cloudless, sunny sky…and maybe some palm trees? Okay, how ab...

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...