Neil deGrasse Tyson: How the Moon May Have Formed How was the Moon formed, and why doesn’t it have more iron or heavy metals? Neil deGrasse Tyson explains to Eugene Mirman how a collision with a Mars-sized object during the formation of the Earth may have led to the creation of the Moon. Enjoy this “Behind the Scenes video” from StarTalk Radio. via Star Talk Radio. newsletter: http://bit.ly/VppKWL iTunes Podcasts - http://bit.ly/SOHDg6 Twitter - […]

Every year I look forward to the Magnolia trees blooming in my neighborhood. This year was no different than any other year however this year it seemed like they were blooming later than they have been over the past couple of years. But I could be wrong about that because these may not be the first blooms of the year in this area -- but they are to me.  I must admit that I've been out of town a lot lately going up to Ohio and Mississippi.  Since I've been gone I've been walking […]

Again and again. Do you have to take a stupid pill every day to be a reporter? Or are reporters like this one speaking down to their audience. Either way, it’s shocking.

Seven years ago, to mark the then tenth anniversary of the announcement of the birth of the folkloric Dolly the sheep, and in the still reverberating wake of the South Korean cloning scandal, I practiced my fledgling/intermittent/debatable/wanton science communication skills with the penning of an article on the issue of ‘cloning.’ It being an anniversary with a ’0′ on the end, combined with topical relevance, suggested I might be lucky enough to get it published. And I was thus very... […]

Boiling Water - Periodic Table of Videos This video features Martyn Poliakoff, Samantha Tang and Neil Barnes. Thanks to Buddhi Rai and Chandra Rai for all theri help with the Everest boiling. via Periodic Videos.