Quark Soup by David Appell

As you probably know, the de-orbiting Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will soon fall to Earth . This thing is 10.4 meters long and, on l...

I've recently come across a few free, online climate textbooks, and thought it worth mentioning here. A great introduction to the basi...

From my mailbox: My Plastic Brain: One Woman's Yearlong Journey to Discover If Science Can Improve Her Mind  by Caroline Williams. A...

The best Hawking obit I've read: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary

Last night I started watching The Expanse on Amazon Prime. It's been really good scifi so far, and has that nitty-gritty view of future...

When you read this blog, is the page too wide for your screen? Do you have to scroll right in order to see what's beyond the post itse...

A few years ago, mathematician Ian Stewart published a book titled 17 Equations That Changed The World . It's an interesting list: ...

What can you even do when climate deniers won't agree to the basic rules of arithmetic?? Ed Berry is a physicist who earned his PhD b...

Via National Geographic

Data: monthly health care costs - Altarum Institute monthly inflation: Fred CPI-U

This is an astonishing graph: The Arctic is currently about 17°C (31°F) degrees above normal. The baseline (green line) is the 195...

From KarlMagnus Petersson‏ on Twitter : In the same way, you can show (I think) that which is also cool, but not as cool, since...

The science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin recently died (she lived in Portland, Oregon for decades), and since I hadn't read anything by...

(Besides the orbiting red roadster, I mean)

I think this is hilarious: Backstory (which everyone should know already).

We all know by now -- or should know -- that ocean heat content (OHC) is easily the best metric of a global energy imbalance -- about 93% of...

Update 1/25: The Clock was set forward by half a minute , "amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change," so it...

After 2017's annual temperatures came in, Gavin Schmidt posted this on Twitter: Here, historical forcings are used prior to 2000 ...

On January 25th at 10 am ET the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal their annual decision about the hands of their Doomsday Clock:...