For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were...
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of t...
In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of t...
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awe...
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, com...
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've b...
Dreams about the future are always f...
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our fo...
There is no greater education than one...
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those...
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an...
