A cousin of mine just posted an urban legend to her Facebook status. I first encountered this bit of misinformation 4 or 5 years ago, and...

The last day of our London trip we took the train to Greenwich to see the Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory, home of the 0 degree ...

This is what passes for witty conversation around our house. This morning I told my husband I wanted to stay up and follow Curiosity’s lan...

A recent post on thenewcivilrightsmovement.com about how Bryan Fischer of The American Family Association denies that HIV causes AIDS , le...

As everyone knows, June 5 saw the last transit of Venus across the face of the sun until December, 2117. Scientists kept telling us this e...

Recently I received a request through Flickr from a student who wanted to use my photo of a cladoselache fossil in a report she was writin...

I don’t remember where online I heard of the book, The Viral Storm: The Dawn of A New Pandemic Age , by Nathan Wolfe, but wherever I did, ...

Tuesday, I took my husband and my good friend D to the Lafayette Museum of Science to see the exhibit Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Disc...

If you go to this link , you can see a huge, searchable image of ancient elephant tracks laid across what is now a desert in the United Ar...

Belated congratulations to Dr. Per Ahlberg on his having been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Per Ahlberg is a paleont...