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Giant Sequoias Growing Tall in England

California's giant trees have a new habitat across the globe. What does this imply about geographic distribution?

JWST Sets Record for Early Mature Galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope sees mature stars and galaxies too early for big bang theory.

Good-bye Anthropocene

Science cannot rid itself of human nature and politics.

The Stuff Happens Law in Geology

"Then something happened," say geologists who weren't there and didn't witness anything.

Archive: Your Model Train Set

Model trains in your cells? Yes: read about this and other wonders from 21 years ago. Note: Some embedded links may no longer work. Your Model Train Set   02/25/2003 Model train enthusiasts never had it so good. Imagine five different models of finely-crafted engines, all in perfect working order, and enough track to cover a […]

Archive: The Lone Ranger in Science Is Sometimes the Good Guy

Grote Reber's story is little known but important. Here it is again from 21 years ago.

Animists in Modern Dress: Origin-of-Lifers

The spirits of the molecules give rise to animated complex systems, goes the new false religion.

Spiral Galaxies Revealed in Dazzling Multicolored Splendor

New images from the Webb telescope combined with Hubble images present a catalog of awesome structures.

Big Bang Cosmology Still in Crisis

The lumpiness problem keeps getting worse, and most of reality is unknown.

James Tour Lab Hammers Cancer

James Tour's lab at Rice has found a way to hammer cancer cells to smithereens with light.

Human Evolution Dates Are Unreliable

Leading nature museum admits flaws in all dates for human ancestors.

Archive: Horses’ “Vestigial Muscles” Are Really Dampers

This reprint from 22 years ago is sure to be a hit with horseback riders.

Cosmology Could Be Fundamentally Flawed

Citizens should know about mistaken predictions in science.

COP28 vs Science

The UN climate conference is making world-shattering decisions based on questionable scientific inference.

Fat Star Child Too Big for Mom

Could a mother give birth to a 170-pound baby? That's what a new exoplanet is like.
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