SANTA ROSA, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 18, 2024 / Make: announces the release of Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist, a new book by Forrest Mims detailing his extraordinary life ...

For most of human history, men and women with absolutely no formal training served as society's inventors and scientists. While the names of most of these people are unknown, many of their creations ...

Eugenie Scott believes science and religion can be compatible--with some compromises (Opinion, The Scientist, Jan. 9, 1995, page 12). John Maddox, the editor of Nature, recently wrote, ". . . many ...

Supernatural properties have long been attributed to crystals. Even today some people believe that crystals can improve their mood and focus healing energy into their bodies. There's a glimmer of ...

The drought conditions of recent years have severely reduced the population of many wild animals on our place. The 13.6 inches of rain we've received so far in 2012 has brought back some of these ...

Until people learned that solar eclipses are caused by the moon blocking the sun, they were scary events. Even today, eclipses are cloaked in superstition and ritual by some cultures. For more than a ...

On some winter days, large swarms of water striders emerge from wherever they hide on cold days and go racing across the surface of Geronimo Creek. The ones in the nearby photo were waltzing across ...

September's Bastrop County Complex fire destroyed more than 1,500 homes. Thousands of acres of loblolly pines were burned outright or their canopies were transformed from deep green to scorched brown ...

A decade ago I received a lesson in scientific enthusiasm during my annual stay at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory. I was alone on the mountain entering the day's data into a computer. Suddenly the ...

In the early days of this column, concerned readers sent many questions about the earth's ozone layer, which I began measuring in 1990. Today, public interest in the ozone layer has been replaced by ...