Tiny shrimp match power of wind and tides

Lots of oceanographers think about how our churning oceans decide the distribution of sea life. You can see the effects even from space, as tie-dye streaks of bright plankton mark eddies and current boundaries. But a few scientists have their thinking caps on backwards, and they’ve made a phenomenal discovery: Sea life, it seems, can [...]

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U.N. + Google Earth = environmental change in your face!

Cheers to the United Nations Environment Programme for getting savvy and using Google Earth to post some choice then-and-now pictures of the planet. Their “Atlas of Our Changing Environment” pinpoints more than 120 places in 80 countries where things just aren’t the same as they used to be. Going one better than telling us percentages [...]

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Wrap my head in tinfoil and feed me kimchee

The sun periodically vomits superheated plasma at us, knocking down satellites and peppering airline passengers with gamma rays they didn’t order. On the whole, perhaps it’s better just to stay on Earth, especially since now we don’t have to worry about bird flu anymore. Or so we hear from Korea, where scientists fed kimchee to [...]

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One more reason why the world needs copyeditors

The world needs scientists to save it from awful diseases. And the scientists need science writers (and possibly Jackie Chan) to tell the world what the scientists have been up to. But what good is even the best writing about the best science if your generation is devoid of copyeditors? It’s especially crucial as science [...]

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