A female strawberry poison frog faces an abundance of choice when it comes time to breed. The forest …

Today May 19th, really seems like the first full-fledged day of summer. The temp is in the upper 80s; thunderstorms threatened half the day.  Yesterday the daughter of long-time friends got married in a delightful, non-traditional ceremony outside on a lake.  Utterly charming.  The neighbors' lovely daughter is graduating from high school today at the top of her class.  How nice.  Their dogs still bark too much.  And today the Phactors are busily getting the […]

A new strain of photosynthetic cyanobacteria have been engineered to grow without the need for light.   read more

How much do politics, economics, competition and fear impact NASA? Find out when Neil deGrasse Tyson and Prof. John Logsdon discuss the space program, from the Cold War to the present day.

Jordon’s log. May 19th, 2013. We’re smack dab in the middle of day two. Tensions are high…cookie break was almost forgotten. Yes, having a cookie break everyday at 9 and 3 isn’t the only thing scheduled on our mission on the JOIDES Resolution. From 7:30 AM on it’s a non-stop borage of learning. So fast and furious that Vin Diesel himself would wet his pantaloons. read more