“I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.”
Human World
Brewer’s yeast and beyond; meet your microbial bartenders.
Satellite image of the Summit fire in southern California on May 1, 2013.
If you step outside at night from a bright room, you won’t see many stars at first. It takes up to 30 minutes for your eyes to become “dark-adapted.”
IBM researchers made this short film by moving atoms.
Happy May Day! A few words about this annual celebration, whose roots are in astronomy.
As Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant struggles to contain a flood of radioactive wastewater, a word about what makes radioactivity harmful to humans.
New research has shown that university students behave very differently when using social media as part of their academic learning.
University of Georgia researchers used a Facebook page to determine the trajectories of tornado debris.
Researchers have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.



















