Steven Andrew is a free lance writer and Contributing Editor to the progressive weblog Daily Kos. He lives in Florida near the Kennedy Space Center with his wife and a dog named Darwin. Email Steven.
I was going to ask PZ about this, but on second thought and on the off chance he hasn't seen it, I worried about his blood pressure and workload in the middle of the...
The European Space Agency is developing an observatory that would settle questions about the sun from a unique location: inside the orbit of Mercury. The Solar Observatory, or SOLO, would perform heretofore unprecedented measurements of the heliosphere and...
Ever wonder why Eurasia developed agriculture and thus early civilization before the New World? Well, according to author Jared Diamond, a big part of the answer may be simple geography. If you look at a map of the two hemisphere...
The United States currently has over 2 million people in prison. One out of a little over 100 adults are in jail in the US. That's more than any other modern nation that we know of, more than...
Residents of Chile went to bed last night in a quiet South American nation often misclassified as a third-world country. They awoke this morning to find their homeland transformed by live updates and dramatic video into a beacon of...
Update: And it's now official. After follower and driving this bill for months, which at times felt like herding a flock of kittens hopped up on Mountain Dew, Senate Bill 3729, the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, has...
Well, nearby is relative in interstellar space. The new planet, estimated by NASA researchers to be about three times as massive as the earth, orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581 every 36 days at a distance of about...
After posting a call to action last Friday and inundating Hoyer with calls to preserve NASA by passing Senate Bill 3729, House Science Committee Chair Bart Gordon released a statement agreeing to bring S3729 to the floor. In short, it...
Comedian Bill Maher is doing a great job on HBO's Real Time of airing various gaffes made by Christine O'Donnell over the years. Last Friday it was O'Donnell pitching a classic creationist canard, i...
Bill Maher has said he will run clips of Christine O'Donnell serial gaffes until she comes on his HBO special, Real Time. Last week it was the witchcraft gaffe and "I dated a Satanist". Which has...