Look Out Above - Every year at this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, and the result is a pleasant sky show called the Perseid Meteor Shower. Even though the comet is far away now -- out beyond...
'Send' - Will Schwalbe and David Shipley say they were so overwhelmed by the amount -- and muddled quality -- of the email they were getting...that they wrote a whole book about it. It's called "Send: Why People Email So Badly and...
It's Not Your Imagination: Hurricanes Getting Stronger - In 2005 -- right, by coincidence, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- two major research papers came out suggesting that hurricanes were being strengthened by global climate change. There was a great deal of hubbub and debate; some researchers...
100,000, or, Around the World in 6,684 Days - Monday morning at 7:42 a.m. EDT marked the turning of the odometer for the Hubble telescope. It's now orbited the earth 100,000 times. That would be 2.72 billion miles traveled (at about 17,500 miles an hour, at an altitude of...
Who Owns the Arctic? - There is a gold rush, or something like it, in the cold wastes around the North Pole. They're getting warmer, or at least less icy, which has countries looking to stake their claims for the oil, natural gas and minerals...