science & scientists

A bad or good day at the office for cosmologists and particle physicists? Gamma ray mystery becomes more mysterious Some rare cosmic rays pack an astonishing wallop, with energies prodigiously greater than particles in human-made accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider. Their sources are...

The Great Global Warming Swindle For anyone who caught the Channel 4 doc last night, it made for very stimulating viewing: For thos who did not, it made the basic hypothesis that climate change is not, nor ever has been driven by CO2. It said that historically, CO2 mirrored the temperature...

I don't know much about this man and I'm under the impression that things should stay that way, but I've done the unthinkable and subjected myself to portions of his book, "The Demon-Haunted World." One of the excerts I selected was the start of the chapter, "The Dragon in My Garage." He put...