It’s damned-near impossible to sort wheat from chaff this April 1st (and every other day), so as usual, caveat lector!...

What was I thinkin’? I knew there’d be hell to pay, but that crossed my mind a little too late....

Hmmm. Aren’t all photons real? Ex nihilo: Dynamical Casimir effect in metamaterial converts vacuum fluctuations into real photons. US teen...

I’m not sure what I expected of Amazon, but it certainly wasn’t this. Shoes deliberately hidden in an ancient Egyptian...

Are you sure you want to play this game? Planetary Resources is looking for a few good asteroid miners. Video:...

A useful-looking new book: Documentary Filmmaking for Archaeologists. Asteroid will miss Earth, but satellites might be in its path. Ancient...

Have a look at this brilliant video, posted by Richard in last Monday’s comments: Psychic Parrot – telepathy research by...

I need relocation therapy — my fingers are too cold to type. Mining for gigantic fossil snakes: As paleontologists know,...