It's no secret that scientists can be funny — but sneaking puns and jokes into peer-reviewed journal articles is no easy task. I look at the long tradition of science-publishing …
In the traditional view of quantum mechanics, everything is fuzzy and unpredictable — but as I report in a feature story for Quanta Magazine, a new experiment may lend support …
Scientists have studied climate records from far northern Europe and from Japan, dating back to the 17th and 15th centuries, respectively — and found that they point to the same …
I'm delighted to have won the 2015 Science in Society Journalism Award from the Canadian Science Writers' Association, for my story on artificial intelligence, focusing on the work of AI …
Lisa Randall puts forward a bold idea about how the dinosaurs met their demise – and the role that an exotic kind of matter may have played. We look at …
Scholars have long debated the origins of the texts that make up the Hebrew Bible. As I report in Mental Floss, a new study points to a rise in literacy …
What better time than February 29 — a date that comes only once every four years — to reflect on the peculiarities of our calendar, a system that has come …
Elusive ripples in the fabric of space, known as gravitational waves, have been found at last, using the twin LIGO detectors. I report on the discovery for Mental Floss.
Computers are now everywhere — but how did it all begin? In Episode 10 of BookLab, we look at two new books that examine the dawn of the computer age …
More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton wondered about the physics of a spinning, water-filled bucket. In my first blog posting for Nautilus, I explore the issues raised by the …
