To me, one of the more incredible feelings in the world is to notice the astonishing detail and wonder of a thing that previously felt totally familiar and mundane. Bugs. Bugs bring this feeling. Bugs are so everywhere...
’ve written an article about exploring rocks around the world using a geology database called Macrostrat, but what about the things that we find in those rocks? Human’s have unearthed an astonishing number of...
onsumed is a computer animated short film by Andreas Wannerstedt. The short is completely CGI, and gorgeously made. The story centers around a lab-made self replicating substance meant to replace food for an...
Plenty of science publications and websites bring up this idea of Panspermia, a hypothetical mechanism by which life on a planet could be seeded, but does it really have any merit? Kind of…...
What started out as a series of tutoring videos for his relatives, came Sal Khan’s immensely successful – in both popularity, and results – tutoring website, Khan Academy. Not to mention that it is...
As this is a website for the layperson, I’m going to start from the very beginning; what is creationism? I’m going to be incredibly careful when I use that word, as it can mean many different things....
Every day, the odds of us finding life elsewhere in the universe seem the go up, with the continuous discoveries of exoplanets in the habitable zone, and the abundance of organic molecules and elements throughout the...
Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and science writer, is no stranger to controversy and often receives negative criticism. In response, he published a video a few years ago in which he reads various hate emails...
What is it to breathe? Find out in this episode of Uncertainty Principle, the Soundcloud based science podcast with transcript below! Hello again. What is it to breathe? Certainly those of you receiving this are...
