In the 1960s Cold War paranoia led to the discovery of the most violent explosions in the Universe, which once again goes to show you the military accomplishes more good than academics think it does - at least those humanities people, anyway.At the height of the Cold War the U.S. was concerned about the possibility of covert Soviet nuclear tests so they sent up a series of satellites to look for...
read moreIn the 1960s Cold War paranoia lead to the discovery of the most violent explosions in the Universe. At the height of the Cold War the US, concerned about the possibility of covert Soviet nuclear tests sent up a series of satellites to look for tell-tale flashes of radiation. These satellites began seeing something strange, they saw flashes, signals of astronomical origin. After decades of...
read moreNumerical models had a tough decade to start off the 2000s. A field that had shown itself to be both scientific and applied in areas like semiconductor physics was extrapolated out to cultural issues and economics and successfully predicted...nothing.A new model created by an international research group claims they can now predict which European countries are more likely to become united...
read moreNumerical models had a tough decade to start off the 2000s. A field that had shown itself to be both scientific and applied in areas like semiconductor physics was extrapolated out to cultural issues and economics and successfully predicted...nothing.A new model created by an international research group claims they can now predict which European countries are more likely to become united...
read moreRoger Pielke, Jr. is one of the most authentic science communicators around. When the science is solid, he supports it, regardless of the political or cultural implications, and when it is crap, he ridicules it. Really, that is what everyone in science media should do, but Pielke is one of few progressives who ridicule both sides when they say stupid things. read...
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