Articles in Science Magazine
Carbon Sampling Takes Flight
Last month, aerial photographer and biologist Matevž Lenarčič flew a single-seat airplane across 2000 kilometers of airspace between Easter Island and Totegegie Airport in French Polynesia (right). That lonesome leg was one hop on a …
A Cold July in Baghdad
Researchers in Spain are tapping a new database in their search for historic climate patterns: medieval Arab history. Physicist Fernando Domínguez-Castro of the University of Extremadura in Badajoz, Spain, and his colleagues, including a historian …
The Story Is Dead. Long Live the Story.
Artist and self-styled experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats is hoping to persuade the art world to join scientists in the Copernican Revolution—nearly 5 centuries late. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus made the humbling observation that the Earth …
NASA to Launch Guidelines to Protect Lunar Artifacts
This story appeared in Science Magazine [pdf] and online [html].
NASA is unlikely to be the operator of the next spacecraft to land on the moon, but the U.S. space agency is considering sending along some …
Miniature Art Masters
I had a Random Sample about using microbes to restore artwork in Science Magazine: [html] or [pdf] and below…
Microbiologist Rosa María Montes Estellés once infected a church mural with bacteria. But it was for a …
How To Avoid Retirement
In Japan late last year I met a professor who moved to Tokyo to avoid mandatory retirement at his institute in Kyoto. My story about how to stay in academia past your nominal retirement date …
Apollo Physicist Launches Noisy Dustup Over Old Moon Data
Whipping around the moon in the solar system’s loneliest spaceship, Apollo 8 astronaut James Lovell saw something in 1968 …
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Pikas in the Pacific Northwest, kiss your privacy goodbye. This spring, Gregg Treinish, wildlife biologist, founder, and director …
Matching Scientists with Adventurers
Gregg Treinish, a man whose hiking credentials include a stroll along most of the Andes, took part in the Appalachian Trail Days event last weekend with an unusual sense of purpose. On a …
Australian Government Silent on Synchrotron Budget While Scientists Plan Expansion
One might think that the managers of the Australian Synchrotron would be panicking given the news that neither the federal government nor the Victoria state government has addressed in their just-released budget proposals how the …
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