Science Features
Perspectives on Legalizing Cannabis
By Bala Poduval The states of Washington and Colorado legalized cannabis (both medicinal and recreational) through voter… Read more »
Space Weather
By Tim A. Howard The influence of changing conditions in the near-Earth environment on the technological systems… Read more »
Self-Organized Criticality in the Universe
By Markus J. Aschwanden Self-organized criticality is a theoretical concept that describes the statistics of nonlinear processes…. Read more »
Human Evolution is in Our DNA
By C.A.P. Saucier Lucy, the 3.2 million year old fossil, is the most celebrated hominid fossil discovered… Read more »
The First Muons at the Large Hadron Collider
By Michael E. Peskin The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest particle accelerator, or scientific equipment… Read more »
News & Views
Why I
By Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London There are many complex reasons why people… Read more »
Basic Research: Why Should it be a Higher Priority of the Government?
By Bala Poduval Advancements in our civilization are driven by scientific knowledge transformed into innovative technologies for… Read more »
NASA visits Moon again
Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), a robotic mission to gather information about the structure and… Read more »
SOHO watches a comet fading away
Young Scientist, July 29, 2011: On Nov. 4, 2010, NASA’s EPOXI spacecraft came within 450 miles of… Read more »
Hubble Discovers a New Moon Around Pluto
Young Scientist, July 21, 2011: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fourth moon orbiting… Read more »
