When you live in a city like Chicago, there are cool places that you hear a lot about but never manage to get to. For Gabriel and I, American Science and Surplus was one of those places.
Here it is, the empty chair in Oslo. The one Liu Xiaobo couldn't sit in.And here's a related Nobel story I bet most of you have never heard of. It concerns, of all people, Madame Curie.
A company called SpaceX provided a peek Wednesday into the future of the American space program. The company's rocket, Falcon 9, lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying a space capsule called Dragon.
Scientists have been diving in the Gulf of Mexico on a miniature submarine to see how the ecosystems there are coping with the BP oil spill. The expedition gradually edged toward ground zero -- the BP wellhead.Looking for robust sea life in the Gulf isn't as odd as it may seem.
The U.S. has just received its first shipment of molybdenum-99, an essential material for medical imaging that's being mass-produced for the first time with low-enriched uranium instead of weapons-grade material.
The number of Americans who believe that global warming is a scientific fact has been dropping, and environmental groups and climate scientists who say the evidence for warming is clear are scratching their heads over this reversal and scrambling to find a new strategy.Three years ago, former Vice P
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are special effects guys, not scientists, but the kind of curiosity and rigor they bring to their TV series MythBusters certainly befits men of science.Whether they’re blowing up radiators or probing the reality behind everyday myths and urban legends, Savage and
