Weekly Science Quiz

I love the XKCD webcomic, especially when it features a science-related theme. Comic number 1145 poses the question “Why isn’t the sky...

There’s probably no single event more significant in the history of human evolution than the harnessing of fire. Many species make and us...

Artist’s conception of the Earth’s magnetic field (in pink) funneling positrons (in yellow) and sending them to the Fermi Gamma-ray Spac...

The book “Hundert Autoren Gegen Einstein” (A Hundred Authors Against Einstein) was published in 1931. The old adage “there is strengt...

Volcanic eruptions must be good, right? If I could reverse one trend in the year ahead, it would be the use of the word "natural...

An artist’s concept illustrating the expansion of the Universe after the Big Bang. The term Big Bang was originally coined by the Engl...

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational attraction between masses results from their warping of space and ti...