Sciences

US Gives Dinosaur Bones Back to Mongolia After They Were Sold at Chelsea Auction

It isn't enough that the United States consumes nearly 23 percent of the world's old, chewed-up dinosaur bones. Nor was it enough for Hollywood to commission Jurassic Park sequels 2, 3, and 4. Clearly, one of us had to go steal a gen-u-ine dinosaur bones from Mongolia to satisfy our collective pre- ... More >>

From Buried in Books to Behind the Bar, Solana Rowe Sings Her Way Out

For the longest time, Solana Rowe just wanted to be Lisa Simpson. "She was so jazzy. She played the saxophone. She was an outsider," the 23-year-old musician giggles in a basement bar in the East Village, leaning back into a brick wall. She touches the pile of floppy curly hair on top of her head, ... More >>

If The Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Were Played By Humans...

The dinos of Jurassic Park are coming back next month, this time in 3D, which makes me wonder: If they ever remade it with people as the creatures, who would get the roles? Here are my incredibly helpful suggestions. As the velociraptor..

Black Market T-Rex: Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Dinosaur Bones

You may want to check the certificate of authenticity for your Stegosaurus skeleton. Yesterday, a Florida man pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling dinosaur skeletons. Don't be alarmed if you were unaware that dinosaur bone-smuggling was an issue because we didn't know either. But yesterday's guil ... More >>

"Jews Are Poisoning Dogs With Mushroom Spores" Is An Actual Rumor Circulating In Brooklyn Right Now

The woman who lives down the hall from me in my Crown Heights apartment building is a late-middle-aged Caribbean islander who spent months telling everyone in my building that I was an undercover K-9 cop sent in by the feds to blend in and gather intelligence on any potential drug dealers who may li ... More >>

Quantum Levitation Defies Gravity, Blows Your Freaking Mind

The above video comes via the Association of Science-Technology Centers, and it shows a superconductive disc locked in "quantum levitation." Translation: HOLY SHIT, THAT NILLA WAFER IS FLOATING IN MID-AIR!

Start Bracing for Solar Storms

​The magnetic storm that has been developing on the Sun's surface may cause problems down here on Earth soon. Reuters reports that above average solar activity is proving to be a real concern for the Space Weather Prediction Center. They warn that communications and GPS satellites could be aff ... More >>

Today's 100-Minute Lunar Eclipse Will Be Presented by the Internet

​Alert: There will be a massive lunar eclipse, today, the first in 2011! It will start at 2:20 Eastern time. However, you won't be able to actually see it in real life, unless you happen to live in the eastern portion of Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, or western Australia. North Americ ... More >>

Scientists Blame Quantum Physics for Smell

​"What's that smell?" is a question that has plagued mankind for thousands of years, but have you ever stopped to ask, "Why does that smell?" The BBC reports scientists at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas are trying to figure out the reasons why and how things smell, and they ma ... More >>

Scientists Attempt to Drill to Earth's Mantle, Bring Back Souvenirs

​An international team of scientists is aiming to go further into the Earth than ever before. COSMOS Magazine has the story of this colossal undertaking, which will cost over a billion dollars and optimistically take almost a decade. By reaching the mantle, the layer between the crust and iron ... More >>

Tomorrow, the Moon and Sun and Earth Will Behave Unusually!

via NASA/Mr. Eclipse/Fred Espenak​Science nerds, astronomy fans, and people who like to look up at the sky and see things: There will be a total lunar eclipse Tuesday morning -- meaning that the sun, the Earth, and the moon will all align, with the moon entirely in the Earth's shadow. This is ... More >>

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Scientists Hate Women, and, Yes, We Have Proof

​Why, scientists, why? Why must you torture us with these punishing, misogynistic studies that only prove scientists to be sick, sick fucks? Study in point: Steven Most and Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, professors of psychology at the University of Delaware, decided to test whether women really ... More >>

Hubble 3D As Gripping as Plumbers Snaking a Drain

The Shake Shacking of America; The Big Plate Revolution of New York

​Dale Hemmerdinger, the ex-MTA chairman and current landlord, is evicting Shamsher Wadud, who for many years owned the Indian restaurant Nirvana on the roof of the building next door. Wadud is broke and a Parkinson's sufferer, and claims his apartment is overrun by rodents. [NY Post] The Shak ... More >>

New Yorkers Rise Early for Moon Mugging

​A group of die-hard New York stargazers met this morning in Inwood, in the northernmost tip of Manhattan near Spuyten Duyvil Creek, to watch the LCROSS lunar probe crash into the surface of the moon. The mission's objective is to see if there is water on the moon. Jason Kendall, the founder ... More >>

The Penis-Shaped Minds of Some Wacky Scientists

Oh brother. Here we go again with the evolutionary psychologists.There's no denying that evolutionary psychology has a sort of hip cache -- the general idea goes that we humans act the way we do because of the way we evolved on the African savanna millions of years ago, even if those inherited behav ... More >>

Fault Lines: David Schwimmer Brings You Some Chat About Semen

Tremor town

Diana Al-Hadid

Councilwoman Seeks Cloned Meat Labeling

January 11 through 17, 2008

Science Friction

Looking for chemical reaction in physicist love triangle

Gore and War Hawk Stump for Green Future

Manhattan Confidential

Two inside looks at the testosterone-fueled world of mid-20th-century physics

Weird Science: The Implications of Playing With Nature

Infinity, IYI

By Georg: David Foster Wallace stares into a mathematical abyss and lives to write about it

Let There Be Light

What's So Popular About Popular Science? Three New Books Take on Life, the Universe, and Everything.

What Time Is It There?

••• Cosmic Profs Beat The Clock

Brothers to Another Planet

NASA Tries to Launch Space-Science Dreams

As the Whorl Turns

Long the Difference Between Guilt and Innocence, Fingerprints Themselves Are on Trial

Hunting Down Anthrax

Old Science Fights New Biowar

White Supremacists and the Means of Biowar

Aryan Nations Follower Had Anthrax, Bubonic Bacteria

Gas Peddled

Exaggerating the Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat

The Worst That Could Happen

Take a Deep Breath: The Terror of Germ Warfare

The Stem Cell Clashes

George W. Bush Can’t Stop Science

Clone Ranger

The Rael World Comes to New York

Maps and Chaps

••• The New Geography Reaches Critical Mass

The DNA Bomb

Modified Crops are In the Crosshairs Now. You May Be Next.

Smokestack Lightning

Online Trade in Greenhouse Gases Strikes Environment

Nation

Trading Gas

Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

Learning From HIV

Summing Up the Lessons From Five Years of Science Reporting

Stop, Drop, and Swab

New York Police Ponder Portable DNA Labs

Fossils in the Blood

Scientists Find Ancient DNA in Living Africans

Flirting With PseudoScience

South Africa’s President May Become the First World Leader to Believe That HIV Is Not the Cause of AIDS

Quantum Leap

Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientfic Establishment thinks he's nuts.

Unnatural Disasters

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

When Words Collide

Hype and Glory

Dissecting scientific promise from reality

Computer Viruses Hit Museum!

Ambitious Exhibition Gets Infected by Technology