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Science at its best is gloriously counter-intuitive, resolutely anti-tribalist, splendidly oblivious to our opinions and our allegiances. I...

This guy directed the two most successful films in the history of the world. Now he's made it clear that the biggest story of our time i...

I've been waiting for the Piomas data on Arctic ice volume for September to appear here so that I could draw a graph. It appeared to...

I love the mysteries of nature. But what I love even more is when something that may appear mysterious, and is frequently misrepresented and...

The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded yesterday for the discovery of dark energy in 1998. What is dark energy? Do we really need to just ...

A question for Hallowe'en. For each person alive on Earth, how many ghosts are there? And what are they like? If you want to skip the nu...

Happy anniversary, Neptune! According to those tables of numbers you get in books about the Solar System, the planet Neptune takes 164.79 ye...

In the last twelve months, this blog strayed somewhat from its tagline and became a vehicle for exposing the pseudoscience of some Hawaiian ...

Today I finished off two neat little bird lists. If you click on either the images below, you can grab yourself a copy. The first is a strai...

The Six Nations Championship started today. I tried to watch the first game, but got distracted by the pretty numbers. The scoring possibi...