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2024
• Green Ammonia, July 22, 2024
• Cold Brew Coffee, July 15, 2024
• US Independence Day, July 4, 2024
• Copper and Green Energy, July 1, 2024
• Baseball Mud, June 24, 2024
• Wiedemann-Franz Law, June 17, 2024
• A.I., Wine, and Beer, June 10, 2024
• Bergmann's rule, June 3, 2024
• 60 Hertz Standard, May 27, 2024
• Droplets, May 20, 2024
• Levitation, May 13, 2024
• 100 Years of IBM, May 6, 2024
• Cicada Apocalypse, April 29, 2024
• Critical Materials, April 22, 2024
• Eclipse 2024, April 15, 2024
• Reverse Sprinkler, April 8, 2024
• T Coronae Borealis, April 1, 2024
• Coffee and Tea, March 25, 2024
• Arno Penzias (1933-2024), March 18, 2024
• Wave-Particle Duality, March 11, 2024
• Offshore Wind, March 4, 2024
• High Entropy Ceramics, February 26, 2024
• Methane Emissions, February 19, 2024
• Thales, Heron, and Experimental Mathematics, February 12, 2024
• Mica, February 5, 2024
• Disk Packing, January 29, 2024
• Is eπ > πe?, January 22, 2024
• Brownian Motion Energy Harvesting, January 15, 2024
• Coin Flip, January 8, 2024

2023
• Holidays 2023, December 18, 2023
• Fast Radio Bursts, December 11, 2023
• Adhesives, December 4, 2023
• MOND and Planet Nine, November 27, 2023
• Earthquake Light, November 20, 2023
• Antimatter Gravitation, November 13, 2023
• Koch Snowflake, November 6, 2023
• Shared Dessert, October 30, 2023
• Quantum Uncertainty, October 23, 2023
• Sulfur Hexafluoride, October 16, 2023
• Cement Supercapacitors, October 9, 2023
• Fifth Force, October 2, 2023
• The Birthday Problem, September 25, 2023
• Iron as a Fuel, September 18, 2023
• Cosmic Asymmetry, September 11, 2023
• Work, September 4, 2023
• The Monty Hall Problem, August 28, 2023
• Memristors, August 21, 2023
• Aperiodic Tiling, August 14, 2023
• Fondant Physics, August 7, 2023
• The Gravitational Constant, July 31, 2023
• Length of a Day, July 24, 2023
• Random Walks, July 17, 2023
• Gravitational Lensing, July 10, 2023
• Tiny Bubbles, July 3, 2023
• Thales' Measure of the Sun, June 26, 2023
• Tetrataenite Magnets, June 19, 2023
• Utilitarian Music, June 12, 2023
• Medieval Volcanism, June 5, 2023
• Rare Earths from Bacteria, May 29, 2023
• Georges Lemaitre, May 22, 2023
• Reading Old Manuscripts, May 15, 2023
• The IQ Flynn Effect, May 8, 2023
• Cosmic Water, May 1, 2023
• Warm Whales, April 24, 2023
• Jumping Beans, April 17, 2023
• Gordon Moore (1929-2023), April 10, 2023
• Speed of Light, April 3, 2023
• Amorphous Ice, March 27, 2023
• Curly Hair, March 20, 2023
• Optical Communication, March 13, 2023
• Hygroscopic Energy, March 6, 2023
• Ionocaloric Refrigeration, February 27, 2023
• Roman Concrete, February 20, 2023
• Nuclear Fusion Energy, February 13, 2023
• Super-Tough CrCoNi Alloy, February 6, 2023
• Squeeze Bottles, January 30, 2023
• A Grammar of Cooking, January 23, 2023
• Cloud Seeding, January 16, 2023
• Drawing Lots, January 9, 2023
• Tree Rings and Cosmic Rays, January 2, 2023

2022
• Season's Greetings - Holidays, 2022
• The Great Filter - December 12, 2022
• Plant Crystals - December 5, 2022
• Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) - November 28, 2022
• Passive Thermal Management - November 21, 2022
• Hominin Evolution - November 14, 2022
• Bird Nest Mechanics - November 7, 2022
• Boisterous Betelgeuse - October 31, 2022
• Eternal Bubbles - October 24, 2022
• The Strange Saccorhytus - October 17, 2022
• Sand Battery - October 10, 2022
• No Bang? - October 3, 2022
• Elasto-Magnetic Materials - September 26, 2022
• Analog Neural Networks - September 19, 2022
• Functional Materials Discovery - September 12, 2022
• Mood Lighting - September 5, 2022
• Martian Radiation - August 29, 2022
• Mineral Diversity - August 22, 2022
• Mistletoe Glue - August 15, 2022
• Gaia Asteroid Census - August 8, 2022
• Portrayal of Professions - August 1, 2022
• Odd Neural Networks - July 25, 2022
• Colloidal Pre-Assembly - July 18, 2022
• Atmospheric Water Harvesting - July 11, 2022
• Singing Saw - July 4, 2022
• Product Authentication - June 27, 2022
• Gel and Granular Flow - June 20, 2022
• Robot-Safe Jobs - June 12, 2022
• Methane and Global Warming - June 6, 2022
• Thermophotovoltaics - May 30, 2022
• Volcanic Ash and Aviation - May 23, 2022
• Text Topography - May 16, 2022
• Anthropocene Extinctions - May 9, 2022
• Happy Numbers - May 2, 2022
• Crater Counts - April 25, 2022
• Rare Earths from Coal Waste - April 18, 2022
• Terahertz Imaging - April 11, 2022
• Science Gurus - April 4, 2022
• Ball Lightning - March 28, 2022
• Antimatter - March 21, 2022
• Sum of Three Cubes - March 14, 2022
• Bridgmanite - March 7, 2022
• Dark Energy - February 28, 2022
• Edgar Allan Poe and Science - February 21, 2022
• Betaelectric Generators - February 14, 2022
• Material Cutting - February 7, 2022
• Palindrome Numbers - January 31, 2022
• World Inequality 2022 - January 24, 2022
• Venus Rover - January 17, 2022
• The Largest Ammonite - January 10, 2022
• ALGOL and Algol - January 3, 2022

2021
• Happy Holidays - December 20, 2021
• Hot Black Ice - December 13, 2021
• Thermal Management - December 6, 2021
• Carthamin Red Dye - November 29, 2021
• Solar Cooling - November 22, 2021
• Cell Origin - November 15, 2021
• E. F. Schumacher and Sustainability - November 8, 2021
• Asteroid 216 Kleopatra - November 1, 2021
• Solar Geoengineering - October 25, 2021
• Sand - October 18, 2021
• Gap Elements - October 11, 2021
• Adam Adamandy Kochański - October 4, 2021
• Soda Fizz - September 27, 2021
• Shakespearean Monkeys - September 20, 2021
• Arrhenius Law - September 13, 2021
• Earth's Pulse - September 6, 2021
• Jovian Radiation - August 30, 2021
• Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) - August 23, 2021
• Anthropocene Minerals - August 16, 2021
• Elisha Gray - August 9, 2021
• Earth's Core - August 2, 2021
• A Novel Chaotic System - July 26, 2021
• Entropy and Timekeeping - July 19, 2021
• Prime Walk - July 12, 2021
• Optical Rectenna - July 5, 2021
• Dragonfly Flight - June 28, 2021
• Data Compression - June 21, 2021
• Acoustic Data Transmission - June 14, 2021
• ENIAC at 75 - June 7, 2021
• A Gigabunch of T-Rex - May 31, 2021
• Non-Standard Muon - May 24, 2021
• GRB Extinctions - May 17, 2021
• Crystallization - May 10, 2021
• Edison Battery - May 3, 2021
• Writing Magnetic Media - April 26, 2021
• Farfarout - April 19, 2021
• X-raying Sealed Letters - April 12, 2021
• Unusual Hall Effect - April 5, 2021
• Slippin' and Slidin' - March 29, 2021
• The Seven Sisters - March 22, 2021
• Counterfeit Protection - March 15, 2021
• Phosphine on Venus - March 8, 2021
• Most Distant Quasar - March 1, 2021
• Steganography - February 22, 2021
• Disjunction - February 15, 2021
• Tungsten - February 8, 2021
• Skin Communication - February 1, 2021
• Demons in Science - January 25, 2021
• Metal Powder Energy - January 18, 2021
• Cosmic Glow - January 11, 2021
• Room Temperature Superconductivity - January 4, 2021

2020
• Christmas 2020 - December 21, 2020
• Factorials - December 14, 2020
• Educated Guessing - December 7, 2020
• Polymaths - November 30, 2020
• LEOS - November 23, 2020
• Noisy Civilization - November 16, 2020
• Phase Rule - November 9, 2020
• Armstrong Numbers - November 2, 2020
• Thermoelectrics - October 26, 2020
• Short Words - October 19, 2020
• Heat Sinks - October 12, 2020
• Raindrop Energy-Harvesting - October 5, 2020
• Heat Transfer - September 28, 2020
• Dull Blades - September 21, 2020
• Science Awards - September 14, 2020
• Cubic Earth - September 7, 2020
• Going in Circles - August 31, 2020
• Alchemy and Astrology - August 24, 2020
• T-Waves - August 17, 2020
• Soap Bubble Pollination - August 10, 2020
• Computer Ants - August 3, 2020
• Martian Moon Phobos - July 27, 2020
• The Multifaceted William Shockley - July 20, 2020
• Paving Materials - July 13, 2020
• 400 Years of the Novum Organum - July 6, 2020
• Isotropy of the Universe - June 29, 2020
• Bruce Baker and Minspeak - June 22, 2020
• Bottle Flow - June 15, 2020
• The Fine Structure Constant - June 8, 2020
• A Special Triangle Pair - June 1, 2020
• Philip W. Anderson (1923-2020) - May 25, 2020
• Worker Ants of Science - May 18, 2020
• Strength of Materials - May 11, 2020
• Spread Spectrum Communications - May 4, 2020
• Neutron Dipole Moment - April 27, 2020
• Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) - April 20, 2020
• Archival Data Storage - April 13, 2020
• SETI - April 6, 2020
• Larry Tesler (1945-2020) - March 30, 2020
• Power from Raindrops - March 23, 2020
• A Voice from the Crypt - March 19, 2020
• Computer Hashing - March 9, 2020
• Carbon Capture - March 2, 2020
• Knots - February 24, 2020
• When in Rome... - February 17, 2020
• Frigid Legos® - February 10, 2020
• Natural Materials - February 3, 2020
• Martian Atmosphere - January 27, 2020
• Whiskey - January 20, 2020
• An Elastocaloric Calorimeter - January 13, 2020
• Elastocaloric Effect - January 6, 2020

2019
• Christmas 2019 - December 23, 2019
• Our Accelerating Universe - December 16, 2019
• Math is Beautiful - December 9, 2019
• Giovanni Battista Riccioli - December 2, 2019
• Consider a Spherical Turkey - November 25, 2019
• Metamaterial Lenses - November 18, 2019
• Computing Chaos - November 11, 2019
• Ultra-Hyper-Super Black - November 4, 2019
• Interstellar Comets - October 28, 2019
• Magnetic Pole Flip - October 21, 2019
• Calvin Quate (1923-2019) - October 14, 2019
• Transistor Threads - October 7, 2019
• Scientific Broadness - September 30, 2019
• Squaring the Circle - September 23, 2019
• Death by Air Pollution - September 16, 2019
• Lots, and Lots, of Dots - September 9, 2019
• Fiber-Optic Sensors - September 2, 2019
• Is Science Simply Beautiful? - August 26, 2019
• Torqued Light - August 19, 2019
• The Dragonfly of Titan - August 12, 2019
• Optical Ruler - August 5, 2019
• Bolometry - July 29, 2019
• Too Many Commercials - July 22, 2019
• Lost Moons - July 15, 2019
• Go with the Flow - July 8, 2019
• Ion-Gated Transistors - July 1, 2019
• Ice XVIII - June 24, 2019
• Threshold Earthquakes - June 17, 2019
• Aurora Exascale Computer - June 10, 2019
• Flawed Science - June 3, 2019
• Very Low Frequencies - May 27, 2019
• Boiling Crisis - May 20, 2019
• Weighing the Milky Way - May 13, 2019
• Tanis - May 6, 2019
• Grey/Gray Goo - April 29, 2019
• Anti-Laser Blackness - April 22, 2019
• The Zwicky Transient Facility - April 15, 2019
• Weather Forecasting - April 8, 2019
• Boron Nitride Aerogels - April 1, 2019
• John Archibald Wheeler - March 25, 2019
• The Year 536 - March 18, 2019
• 150 Years of the Periodic Table - March 11, 2019
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA - March 4, 2019
• Ductile High-Entropy Alloys - February 25, 2019
• Cooling with Aerosols - February 18, 2019
• Magnetic North - February 11, 2019
• Metal-Air Transistor - February 4, 2019
• Crazy Number Sequences - January 28, 2019
• Thermal Filtering - January 21, 2019
• Strong Wood - January 14, 2019
• Ultima Thule - January 7, 2019

2018
• Holidays 2018 - December 23, 2018
• Electron Symmetry - December 17, 2018
• Lottery Simulation - December 10, 2018
• Walter Schottky - December 3, 2018
• Exfoliated Graphite - November 26, 2018
• Solar Reflecting Paint - November 19, 2018
• Metaphysics - November 12, 2018
• Bus Stop Simulation - November 5, 2018
• Printed Piezoelectrics - October 29, 2018
• Women Nobel Laureates in 2018 - October 22, 2018
• Neolithic Cheese - October 15, 2018
• Michael Faraday - October 8, 2018
• NIST Randomness Beacon - October 1, 2018
• Supercooled Water - September 24, 2018
• Euler on Divergent Series - September 17, 2018
• Giant Magnetocaloric Effect - September 10, 2018
• Synthetic Fragrances - September 3, 2018
• The Limits of Memory - August 27, 2018
• Wave Mixing - August 20, 2018
• Scientific Publishing - August 13, 2018
• Drip, Drip - August 6, 2018
• Diamond Elasticity - July 30, 2018
• Ultra-High Q - July 23, 2018
• Fly Ash - July 16, 2018
• The Wealth of Nations - July 9, 2018
• Twice Broken Sticks - July 2, 2018
• Great Circle Routes - June 25, 2018
• Neutron Lifetime Mystery - June 18, 2018
• Heat Islands - June 11, 2018
• Archaic Cells - June 4, 2018
• Predicting Metallic Glass Formation - May 28, 2018
• Diamonds of a Lost Planet - May 21, 2018
• Formica - May 14, 2018
• Bio-Inspired Electrode - May 7, 2018
• Infinities - April 30, 2018
• World Happiness in 2018 - April 23, 2018
• The Burgess Shale - April 16, 2018
• Triboelectric Nanogenerators - April 9, 2018
• The Puzzle of Centaurus A - April 2, 2018
• Molecular Shapes - March 26, 2018
• Nuclear Fission - March 19, 2018
• Planetary Biosignatures - March 12, 2018
• Amorphous Diamond - March 5, 2018
• Alfred Loomis - February 26, 2018
• Data Mining for Material Synthesis - February 19, 2018
• Dark Energy - February 12, 2018
• Hot Attraction - February 5, 2018
• Transparent Amorphous Oxide - January 29, 2018
• Patent Mining - January 22, 2018
• Claude Shannon's Long Division - January 15, 2018
• Antimatter - January 8, 2018

2017
• Holidays 2017 - December 23, 2017
• Voronoi Tessellation - December 18, 2017
• 3D-printing Stainless Steel - December 11, 2017
• Fingerprints - December 4, 2017
• Collision Avoidance - November 27, 2017
• Ultra-pure Green Light - November 20, 2017
• High Energy Cosmic Rays - November 13, 2017
• Advanced Aluminum Alloys - November 6, 2017
• Joseph Polchinski - October 30, 2017
• Our Magnetic Universe - October 23, 2017
• Cavitation - October 16, 2017
• Pell Numbers - October 9, 2017
• Miniature Antennas - October 2, 2017
• Fizzy Graphene - September 25, 2017
• The First Angiosperm - September 18, 2017
• Noise Thermometry and the Boltzmann Constant - September 11, 2017
• Walking in the Rain - September 4, 2017
• Agitated Atoms - August 28, 2017
• Partial Solar Eclipse at New Jersey - August 24, 2017
• Magnetocapacitive Tunnel Junctions - August 21, 2017
• Tardigrades - August 14, 2017
• Roman Concrete - August 7, 2017
• Solar Spicules - July 31, 2017
• Schroeder Diffuser - July 24, 2017
• Rough Microparticles - July 17, 2017
• Robot Musicians - July 10, 2017
• Walter Noll (1925-2017) - July 6, 2017
• cosmogony - July 3, 2017
• Crystal Prototypes - June 29, 2017
• Voice Synthesis - June 26, 2017
• Refining Germanium - June 22, 2017
• Granular Capillarity - June 19, 2017
• Kirchhoff–Plateau Problem - June 15, 2017
• Self-Assembly - June 12, 2017
• Physics, Math, and Sociology - June 8, 2017
• Graphene from Ethylene - June 5, 2017
• Crystal Alignment Forces - June 1, 2017
• Martian Brickwork - May 29, 2017
• Carbon Nanotube Textile - May 25, 2017
• The Scent of Books - May 22, 2017
• Patterns from Randomness - May 18, 2017
• Terpene - May 15, 2017
• The Physics of Inequality - May 11, 2017
• Asteroid 2015 BZ509 - May 8, 2017
• Fuzzy Fibers - May 4, 2017
• The Sofa Problem - May 1, 2017
• The Wisdom of Composite Crowds - April 27, 2017
• J. Robert Oppenheimer and Black Holes - April 24, 2017
• Modeling Leaf Mass - April 20, 2017
• Easter, Chicks and Eggs - April 13, 2017
• You, Robot - April 10, 2017
• Collisions - April 6, 2017
• Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) - April 3, 2017
• Old Fossils - March 30, 2017
• Levitation - March 27, 2017
• Soybean Graphene - March 23, 2017
• Income Inequality and Geometrical Frustration - March 20, 2017
• Wireless Power - March 16, 2017
• Trilobite Sex - March 13, 2017
• Freezing, Outside-In - March 9, 2017
• Ammonia Synthesis - March 6, 2017
• High Altitude Radiation - March 2, 2017
• C.N. Yang - February 27, 2017
• VOC Detection with Nanocrystals - February 23, 2017
• Molecular Fountains - February 20, 2017
• Jet Lag - February 16, 2017
• Highly Flexible Conductors - February 13, 2017
• Graphene Friction - February 9, 2017
• Dynamic Range - February 6, 2017
• Robert Boyle's To-Do List for Science - February 2, 2017
• Nanowire Ink - January 30, 2017
• Random Triangles - January 26, 2017
• Torricelli's law - January 23, 2017
• Magnetic Memory - January 19, 2017
• Graphene Putty - January 16, 2017
• Seahorse Genome - January 12, 2017
• Infinite c - January 9, 2017
• 150 Years of Transatlantic Telegraphy - January 5, 2017
• Cold Work on the Nanoscale - January 2, 2017

2016
• Holidays 2016 - December 22, 2016
• Ballistics - December 19, 2016
• Salted Frogs - December 15, 2016
• Negative Thermal Expansion - December 12, 2016
• Verbal Cues and Stereotypes - December 8, 2016
• Capacitance Sensing - December 5, 2016
• Gallium Nitride Tribology - December 1, 2016
• Lunar Origin - November 27, 2016
• Pumpkin Propagation - November 24, 2016
• Math Anxiety - November 21, 2016
• Borophene - November 17, 2016
• Forced Innovation - November 14, 2016
• Combating Glare - November 10, 2016
• Solar Tilt and Planet Nine - November 7, 2016
• The Proton Size Problem - November 3, 2016
• Coffee Acoustics and Espresso Foam - October 31, 2016
• SnIP - An Inorganic Double Helix - October 27, 2016
• Seymour Papert (1928-2016) - October 24, 2016
• Mapping the Milky Way - October 20, 2016
• Electromagnetic Shielding - October 17, 2016
• The Lunacy of the Cows - October 13, 2016
• Random Coprimes and Pi - October 10, 2016
• James Cronin (1931-2016) - October 6, 2016
• The Ubiquitous Helix - October 3, 2016
• The Five-Second Rule - September 29, 2016
• Resistor Networks - September 26, 2016
• Brown Dwarfs - September 22, 2016
• Intrusion Rheology - September 19, 2016
• Falsifiability - September 15, 2016
• Fifth Force - September 12, 2016
• Renal Crystal Growth - September 8, 2016
• The Normality of Pi - September 5, 2016
• Metering Electrical Power - September 1, 2016
• Transitioning to Utopia - August 29, 2016
• The Cheerios effect - August 25, 2016
• It's the Humidity - August 22, 2016
• Clinging to Theory - August 18, 2016
• Circumscribing Semicircles with Triangles - August 15, 2016
• Insecticidal Sweeteners - August 11, 2016
• Coffee Break - August 8, 2016
• Darker Matter - August 4, 2016
• Ten Rules of Statistics - August 1, 2016
• Shampoo - July 28, 2016
• The Happiness Equation - July 25, 2016
• The Planck Constant and the Kilogram - July 21, 2016
• Mars Landing 1976 - July 18, 2016
• Cartograms - July 14, 2016
• Alvin Toffler - July 11, 2016
• Rare Earth Metals from Fly Ash - July 7, 2016
• Harvard Metamaterial Flat lens - July 4, 2016
• Visualization in Science and Math - June 30, 2016
• Planet Nine - June 27, 2016
• Casting Lots in the Digital Age - June 23, 2016
• High-Entropy Alloys - June 20, 2016
• George Westinghouse - June 16, 2016
• Humidity Sensing - June 13, 2016
• Stellar Classification - June 9, 2016
• The Square Root of Two - June 6, 2016
• Fluidized Beds - June 2, 2016
• Memorial Day, Solomon Golomb - May 30, 2016
• Christiaan Huygens' Coupled Pendulums - May 26, 2016
• Side-Channel Attacks - May 23, 2016
• Seven Important Chemical Separations - May 19, 2016
• Antennas - May 16, 2016
• Avoided Numbers - May 12, 2016
• Analogy and Scientific Thought - May 9, 2016
• Smectic Martensite - May 5, 2016
• The Nanoscale Shakes - May 2, 2016
• Claude Shannon - April 28, 2016
• Cloudy With a Chance of Climate Change - April 25, 2016
• Fictional Materials - April 21, 2016
• The Lowly, but Ubiquitous, Worm - April 18, 2016
• Prime Number Cousins - April 14, 2016
• Synchronizing to the Moon - April 11, 2016
• Vanadate Transparent Conductors - April 7, 2016
• Low Density Ice, Shedding Surface Ice - April 4, 2016
• Scaling Laws - March 31, 2016
• Future Water Scarcity - March 28, 2016
• Philip Morrison - March 24, 2016
• Doing it by the Numbers - March 21, 2016
• Si2BN - A Graphene Analog - March 17, 2016
• Granular Entropy - March 14, 2016
• Mathematical Astronomy in Babylon - March 10, 2016
• Curse of the Neanderthal DNA - March 7, 2016
• The Future of Work - March 3, 2016
• The Internet of Things that go Bump in the Night - February 29, 2016
• The Voltage Standard - February 25, 2016
• The Fractal Author - February 22, 2016
• Animal Stripes for Camouflage - February 18, 2016
• Testing Relativity - February 15, 2016
• Heat Mirror - February 11, 2016
• Triboelectric Generators - February 8, 2016
• Rise and Fall of Coal - February 4, 2016
• Yersinia pestis - February 1, 2016
• Sponges of Boron Nitride - January 28, 2016
• Dark Matter Filaments - January 25, 2016
• Heat Transfer at Macro- and Nano- Scales - January 21, 2016
• The Anthropocene - January 18, 2016
• Nanocellulose Capacitors - January 14, 2016
• Plasma Crystals - January 11, 2016
• Caffeine-Resistant Bacteria - January 7, 2016
• The Drunken Jogger - January 4, 2016

2015
• Christmas 2015 - December 24, 2015
• Lunar Organics - December 21, 2015
• Viscoelastic Ants - December 17, 2015
• Metallophone Design - December 14, 2015
• Simulating Galaxy Formation - December 10, 2015
• Breath Analysis - December 7, 2015
• Bouncing Droplets - December 3, 2015
• Pi and the Quantum Realm - November 30, 2015
• A Thousand Gamma Ray Bursts - November 26, 2015
• The Giraffe Neck - November 23, 2015
• Playing Archived Audio - November 19, 2015
• Low Refractive Index - November 16, 2015
• Bacterial Signature - November 12, 2015
• Compound Interest - November 9, 2015
• A Natural Structure of Language? - November 5, 2015
• Magnesium Diboride - November 2, 2015
• CPT Symmetry - October 29, 2015
• Portobello Power - October 26, 2015
• A Rose by Any Other Name... - October 22, 2015
• Earth's Mineral Wealth - October 19, 2015
• The Body Magnetic - October 15, 2015
• 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics - October 12, 2015
• Iconicity - October 8, 2015
• The 2015 MacArthur Fellows - October 5, 2015
• Wet Adhesion - October 1, 2015
• Snakeskin Texturing - September 28, 2015
• Tiling - September 24, 2015
• A Multitude of Trees - September 21, 2015
• Lightning Striking Again - September 17, 2015
• Plasma Cushion - September 14, 2015
• The Big Freeze - September 10, 2015
• Science and Engineering Labor - September 3, 2015
• Cursive Simulation - August 31, 2015
• Radiation Shielding - August 27, 2015
• Fruit Fly Culture - August 24, 2015
• Philo Farnsworth - August 20, 2015
• Elusive Ethylenedione - August 17, 2015
• Dangerous Technology - August 13, 2015
• CODATA 2014 - August 10, 2015
• Droplet Formation on Fibers - August 6, 2015
• Nitrous and Nitric Oxides - August 3, 2015
• Public Opinion on Science - July 30, 2015
• Saturn and Metallic Hydrogen - July 27, 2015
• Owls and Stealthy Wind Turbines - July 23, 2015
• Focusing X-Rays - July 20, 2015
• Energy from Evaporation - July 16, 2015
• Sleeping Beauties of Science - July 13, 2015
• Ionized Air - July 9, 2015
• The Cosmology of Edgar Allan Poe - July 6, 2015
• Friction and Superlubricity - July 2, 2015
• Morse Code and Software Patents - June 29, 2015
• Renewables 2050 - June 25, 2015
• Droplet Computing - June 22, 2015
• Low-Density Syntactic Foam Alloy - June 18, 2015
• The Chaotic Moons of Pluto - June 15, 2015
• Electromagnetic Propulsion - June 11, 2015
• Climate Clues from Caves - June 8, 2015
• Transparent Aluminum - June 4, 2015
• A Thermal Switch - June 1, 2015
• Scene Recognition - May 28, 2015
• The First Electronic Telephone Switching System (1ESS) - May 25, 2015
• Dearth of Dyson Spheres - May 21, 2015
• Cyberwood Temperature Sensing - May 18, 2015
• Bouncing Batteries - May 14, 2015
• Building Metallic Gold - May 11, 2015
• Ultra-Small Bacteria - May 7, 2015
• Hacking the p-Value - May 4, 2015
• 25 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope - April 30, 2015
• Tribology - April 27, 2015
• The Earliest Homo - April 23, 2015
• Fermi-Pasta-Ulam - April 20, 2015
• Moonstruck - April 16, 2015
• Materials of the Deep - April 13, 2015
• Van Gogh's Fading Reds - April 9, 2015
• Rising IQ - April 6, 2015
• Signs of Life - April 2, 2015
• Decagonal Quasicrystals - March 30, 2015
• Curiosity - March 26, 2015
• Violin Design - March 23, 2015
• Gamma Ray Bursts and the Fermi Paradox - March 19, 2015
• Assisting Abiogenesis - March 16, 2015
• Flow Batteries - March 12, 2015
• Postcode Personality - March 9, 2015
• Cosmic Radio Burst - March 5, 2015
• Numerology - March 2, 2015
• Parchment DNA - February 26, 2015
• Heritability of Social Class - February 23, 2015
• Olbers' Paradox - February 19, 2015
• History of Nanotechnology - February 16, 2015
• The Yellowstone Sequence - February 12, 2015
• The Color, Blue - February 9, 2015
• Charles H. Townes (1915–2015) - February 5, 2015
• CubeSats - February 2, 2015
• Julian Schwinger - January 29, 2015
• Impact Diamonds - January 26, 2015
• Virtual Water in the Roman Empire - January 22, 2015
• Seeing Infrared - January 19, 2015
• Prime Gap - January 15, 2015
• Rewritable Paper - January 12, 2015
• Dark Matter Detected? - January 8, 2015
• Henley's Recipes - January 5, 2015

2014
• Christmas 2014 - December 24, 2014
• Rivers of Sand - December 22, 2014
• Rust - December 19, 2014
• Phonon Noise - December 17, 2014
• Citation in the Electronic Age - December 15, 2014
• Blu-Ray Solar Cells - December 12, 2014
• Neural Tubes - December 10, 2014
• Cosmic Alignment - December 8, 2014
• The Mass of Information - December 5, 2014
• A Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Composite - December 3, 2014
• Road Salt - December 1, 2014
• Thanksgiving - November 27-28, 2014
• Climate Change and Lightning - November 26, 2014
• Cellphone Census - November 24, 2014
• Non-Brittle Ceramic Structures - November 21, 2014
• Rudolf Clausius - November 19, 2014
• Starry Galactic Halos - November 17, 2014
• Measuring the Gravitational Constant - November 14, 2014
• Moth Navigation - November 12, 2014
• Lingua Franca - November 10, 2014
• Crystals without Facets - November 7, 2014
• Radioactivity - November 5, 2014
• Tungsten Telluride - November 3, 2014
• Violin Evolution - October 31, 2014
• Tsallis Entropy - October 29, 2014
• Sagittarius A - October 27, 2014
• Liquid Nanoparticles - October 24, 2014
• Truffles and Chinese Gooseberries - October 22, 2014
• Coiling - October 20, 2014
• Perfect Solar Absorber - October 17, 2014
• Diamond Thread - October 15, 2014
• Trust in Science - October 13, 2014
• Nobel Prize for Blue LEDs - October 10, 2014
• Veiled Venus - October 8, 2014
• Martin Perl (1927 - 2014) - October 6, 2014
• World Population - October 3, 2014
• Salt Corrosion - October 1, 2014
• Temperature Cycle Energy-Harvesting - September 29, 2014
• Quilting Semiconductors - September 26, 2014
• The Pleiades - September 24, 2014
• A Graphene Drum - September 22, 2014
• The 2014 MacArthur Fellows - September 19, 2014
• Early Oxygen - September 17, 2014
• Ammonia Synthesis - September 15, 2014
• Splitting Water Inexpensively - September 12, 2014
• A Willing Suspension of Disbelief - September 10, 2014
• The Mass of the Milky Way - September 8, 2014
• Whiter Whites - September 5, 2014
• Magnetic Refrigeration - September 3, 2014
• Peak Copper - September 1, 2014
• Terracotta Army - August 29, 2014
• Molybdenum Disulfide for DNA Sequencing - August 27, 2014
• The Branly Coherer - August 25, 2014
• Cultural Mobility - August 22, 2014
• Stardust - August 20, 2014
• Nickel Hair - August 18, 2014
• Solar Steam - August 15, 2014
• Music Analysis - August 13, 2014
• Boron Buckyballs - August 11, 2014
• Gaffer Drone - August 8, 2014
• Silly Putty - August 6, 2014
• Lunar Caves - August 4, 2014
• Bowtie Nanoantennas - August 1, 2014
• The Miller Experiment - July 30, 2014
• Gradient Materials - July 28, 2014
• Heronian Triangles - July 25, 2014
• Thin Optical Doubler - July 23, 2014
• Geomagnetic Reversal - July 21, 2014
• Coupled Lasers - July 18, 2014
• Batteries from Sand - July 16, 2014
• Materials Supply Chain - July 14, 2014
• Vacuum Transistors - July 11, 2014
• Particle Clumping - July 9, 2014
• A Magnetic Hose - July 7, 2014
• The Jacobi Method Updated - July 4, 2014
• Strong Cellulose Filaments - July 2, 2014
• Chemical Evolution - June 30, 2014
• The Man in the Moon's Missing Twin - June 27, 2014
• Thermogalvanic Cell - June 25, 2014
• Kevlar® Inventor, Stephanie Kwolek - June 23, 2014
• Fairy Rings and Fairy Circles - June 20, 2014
• Engineering Ice Cream - June 18, 2014
• Photonic Thermometry - June 16, 2014
• One Man's Food... - June 13, 2014
• Graphene from Nickel - June 11, 2014
• P = NP - June 9, 2014
• Our Lumpy Universe - June 6, 2014
• Godzilla, King of the GMOs - June 4, 2014
• Mass-Energy Equivalence - June 2, 2014
• STEM Indicators - May 30, 2014
• Keywords - May 28, 2014
• Graphene Production - May 26, 2014
• Algal Phytochromes - May 23, 2014
• Simulating the Universe - May 21, 2014
• Fifty Years of BASIC - May 19, 2014
• You Are What You Write - May 16, 2014
• The Bugs of Summer - May 14, 2014
• Norbert Wiener - May 12, 2014
• Let's Do The Twist - May 9, 2014
• Droplet Lens - May 7, 2014
• Shotgun Pi - May 5, 2014
• A Younger Man's Game? - May 2, 2014
• Cellulosic Carbon - April 30, 2014
• Close Observation of Brownian Motion - April 28, 2014
• Red Skies at Night... - April 25, 2014
• Nanodiamond Thermal Conducting Fluid - April 23, 2014
• Easter Holiday - April 16, 2014
• No Time Like the Present - April 14, 2014
• Photonic Pigments - April 11, 2014
• Modeling Food Prices and Social Unrest - April 9, 2014
• Antimony Nanocrystals - April 7, 2014
• Standard Candles - April 4, 2014
• Distinguishing Smells - April 2, 2014
• Microengines - March 31, 2014
• Radio Detectors - March 28, 2014
• Graphene-Copper Heat Sinks - March 26, 2014
• Tidal and Wave Energy - March 24, 2014
• Hurricane Damper - March 21, 2014
• Oddball Science - March 19, 2014
• Light-Emitting Diodes of Tungsten Diselenide - March 17, 2014
• Shear Thickening - March 14, 2014
• Lunar Retroreflectors - March 12, 2014
• Energy-Harvesting the Earth's Heat - March 10, 2014
• The Knight's Tour - March 7, 2014
• Neutrino Mass - March 5, 2014
• Acoustic Circulator - March 3, 2014
• Rogue Asteroids - February 28, 2014
• Single Ion Engine - February 26, 2014
• Topological Insulators and Stanene - February 24, 2014
• A Sixth Sense? - February 21, 2014
• Thermal Diodes - February 19, 2014
• 2014 Science and Engineering Indicators - February 17, 2014
• Ultrafast Heating - February 14, 2014
• Readability - February 12, 2014
• Beer Tongue - February 10, 2014
• War Elephant DNA - February 7, 2014
• Quiet Sun? - February 5, 2014
• Gravitational Waves - February 3, 2014
• Antimicrobial Alloys - January 31, 2014
• Flower Power - January 29, 2014
• Weighing Attograms - January 27, 2014
• The Chicago Pile - January 24, 2014
• The Entropy of Nations - January 22, 2014
• Doing the Penguin Huddle - January 20, 2014
• Gemini Planet Imager - January 17, 2014
• Strange Salt - January 15, 2014
• Working 24/7/365 (and 366) - January 13, 2014
• Richard Garwin - January 10, 2014
• Bacterial Microfossils - January 8, 2014
• Proton to Electron Mass Ratio II - January 6, 2014
• Creativity - January 3, 2014

2013
• Christmas 2013 - December 23, 2013
• Fossil Fig Wasp - December 20, 2013
• Guessing with Benford's Law - December 18, 2013
• Making Diamonds - December 16, 2013
• International Assessment of Science Education - December 13, 2013
• Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 130427A - December 11, 2013
• Pattern Recognition for Accelerometers - December 9, 2013
• Copper Nanowires for Solar Cells - December 6, 2013
• Preventing Market Bubbles - December 4, 2013
• "Leonardo's" Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem - December 2, 2013
• All Work and No Play - November 29, 2013
• Persistent Photoconductivity - November 27, 2013
• Gigayear Data Storage - November 25, 2013
• The Great Red Spot - November 22, 2013
• LUX Dark Matter Search - November 20, 2013
• Bubble, Bubbles, Foam - November 18, 2013
• Autonomous Roving - November 15, 2013
• Modeling Cultural Evolution - November 13, 2013
• Icicle Ripples - November 11, 2013
• William C. Lowe, Personal Computing Pioneer - November 8, 2013
• Renewable Energy Innovation - November 6, 2013
• Computers as Listeners and Speakers - November 4, 2013
• Flowers - November 1, 2013
• Graphene Gas Barrier Composite - October 30, 2013
• Solar-Blind UV Photodetectors - October 28, 2013
• The Thue–Morse Constant - October 25, 2013
• Smell - October 23, 2013
• Nanomixing and Nanoparticle Thermodynamics - October 21, 2013
• The Fomalhaut Triplet - October 18, 2013
• 125 Years of Aluminum - October 16, 2013
• Water Purification 'CD' - October 14, 2013
• The Internet of Things - October 11, 2013
• Sleep - October 9, 2013
• Glass - October 7, 2013
• A Century of Earthquake Prediction Possibilities - October 4, 2013
• Math Appreciation - October 2, 2013
• The Electrical Grid - September 30, 2013
• The 2013 MacArthur Fellows - September 27, 2013
• Strong Nano Trusses - September 25, 2013
• Local Gravity Variation - September 23, 2013
• Ocean Manganese - September 20, 2013
• The Robot Revolution - September 18, 2013
• Conserved Words - September 16, 2013
• Thermodynamics of Life - September 13, 2013
• Pulsar GPS - September 11, 2013
• Fifty Years of Chaos - September 9, 2013
• Ionic Gel Actuator - September 6, 2013
• Leaping Lunar Dust - September 4, 2013
• Science and Engineering Employment - September 2, 2013
• Revel in the Ambiance - August 30, 2013
• Carbyne - August 28, 2013
• Precambrian Protein - August 26, 2013
• Simon Foner and the Vibrating Sample Magnetometer - August 23, 2013
• As You Write, So You Are - August 21, 2013
• Solar Panel Putzfimmel - August 19, 2013
• The Speed of Light - August 16, 2013
• Obfuscated Software - August 14, 2013
• Van der Waals Friction - August 12, 2013
• General Lunacy - August 9, 2013
• Evaporation - August 7, 2013
• Green Plants, Pink House - August 5, 2013
• Thin and Black - August 2, 2013
• Hubble and His Law - July 31, 2013
• Natural Language Interface - July 29, 2013
• Modeling Cities - July 26, 2013
• Compressed Air Energy Storage - July 24, 2013
• Bacterial Iron Isotopes - July 22, 2013
• Making Change - July 19, 2013
• Mars 2020 - July 17, 2013
• Outside the Comfort Zone - July 15, 2013
• Synchronization - July 12, 2013
• Tusk, Tusk... - July 10, 2013
• It from Bit - July 8, 2013
• Douglas C. Engelbart - July 5, 2013
• Broad Shoulders and Broad Name - July 3, 2013
• In Search of... Ancient Concrete - July 1, 2013
• Brillouin Microfluidics - June 28, 2013
• Lunar Mascons - June 26, 2013
• Anapole Dark Matter - June 24, 2013
• Kenneth G. Wilson - June 21, 2013
• Kelvin and Atmospheric Electricity - June 19, 2013
• Gesture Recognition - June 17, 2013
• Decline in Intelligence? - June 14, 2013
• One Time Pads - June 12, 2013
• Superamphiphobic Paper - June 10, 2013
• Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - June 7, 2013
• Scroll Work - June 5, 2013
• The Twin Prime Conjecture - June 3, 2013
• Honeycombs and Herringbones - May 31, 2013
• Lunar Impact! - May 29, 2013
• Amber and Glass Flow - May 27, 2013
• Samuel Morse, Igor Sikorsky, and May 24 - May 24, 2013
• Nuclear Pears - May 22, 2013
• Public Understanding of Science - May 20, 2013
• Perpetual Motion - May 17, 2013
• Chaotic Cavities - May 15, 2013
• The Ionosphere - May 13, 2013
• Discovering New Chemicals - May 10, 2013
• Robotic Insects - May 8, 2013
• Heat Transfer and Cold Beer - May 6, 2013
• The Trilobite Eye - May 3, 2013
• Technological Progress - May 1, 2013
• Optical Routers - April 29, 2013
• Euler Bricks - April 26, 2013
• Cliodynamics - April 24, 2013
• Insect Velcro - April 22, 2013
• Thinking Outside the Boat - April 19, 2013
• Survival of the Smartest - April 17, 2013
• Magnetic Mars - April 15, 2013
• The Circle Ratio - April 12, 2013
• Plotting Emotions - April 10, 2013
• Light Speed - April 8, 2013
• Easter 2013 - March 30, 2013
• Storing Heat - March 29, 2013
• Atacama Large Millimeter Array - March 27, 2013
• The Phaser - March 25, 2013
• Whiskers - March 22, 2013
• Proton Size Problem - March 20, 2013
• Early Math Education - March 18, 2013
• Georg Ohm and Ohm's Law - March 15, 2013
• Modeling Crime - March 13, 2013
• Vortex Loops - March 11, 2013
• Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg - March 8, 2013
• Newton's Chronology - March 6, 2013
• Virtual Water - March 4, 2013
• The Traveling Salesman Problem - March 1, 2013
• Graphene Micro-Supercapacitors - February 27, 2013
• Fifty Years of Paradigm Shifting - February 25, 2013
• Passive Radar - February 22, 2013
• Cosmic Ray Source - February 20, 2013
• Proto-Tongues - February 18, 2013
• Spider Silk Mechanics - February 15, 2013
• Paint it Black - February 13, 2013
• Coffee Ring Physics - February 11, 2013
• DNA Data Storage - February 8, 2013
• Friction and Wear at the Atomic Level - February 6, 2013
• Light Pollution - February 4, 2013
• Teen Scientists - February 1, 2013
• Sinking Carbon - January 30, 2013
• Moona Lisa - January 28, 2013
• Matter Wave Clock - January 25, 2013
• The Internet - Destroyer of Worlds - January 23, 2013
• Carbon Thread - January 21, 2013
• Thermal Optics - January 18, 2013
• Earthquake Prediction - January 16, 2013
• Energy Harvesting Cantilevers - January 14, 2013
• Proton to Electron Mass Ratio - January 11, 2013
• The Pizza Race Problem - January 9, 2013
• Light Trap - January 7, 2013
• Rita Levi-Montalcini - January 4, 2013
• Our Simulated Universe - January 2, 2013

2012
• Christmas 2012 - December 25, 2012
• Thermopower on the Cheap - December 21, 2012
• The Pioneer Anomaly - December 19, 2012
• Norman J. Woodland, Co-Inventor of the Barcode - December 17, 2012
• Electroluminescence - December 14, 2012
• Flow Energy Storage - December 12, 2012
• Futures Betting - December 10, 2012
• Carbon at Earth's Core - December 7, 2012
• Detonation Engine - December 5, 2012
• Olfactory White - December 3, 2012
• Alberti's Conjecture - November 30, 2012
• A Rogue Planet - November 28, 2012
• Heat and Humidity - November 26, 2012
• Turkey Days - November 22, 2012
• Inorganic Flowers - November 21, 2012
• Titan Supercomputer - November 19, 2012
• Cosmic Fog - November 16, 2012
• Math Anxiety - November 14, 2012
• Strong Carbon Nanotube Composites - November 12, 2012
• Super Condensing Surfaces - November 9, 2012
• Acoustic Evaluation - November 7, 2012
• Curiosity Rover Power - November 5, 2012
• Still Without Power - November 2, 2012
• Off the Grid - October 31, 2012
• Ornamental Orbits - October 29, 2012
• Fifty Years of the Drake Equation - October 26, 2012
• Geoengineering - October 24, 2012
• Stanford R. Ovshinsky - October 22, 2012
• Rejected! - October 19, 2012
• Local Order in Metallic Glasses - October 17, 2012
• The Ides of October - October 15, 2012
• Life from Space - October 12, 2012
• Conway Numbers - October 10, 2012
• Peer Review - October 8, 2012
• MacArthur 2012 Scientists - October 5, 2012
• The Astronomical Unit - October 3, 2012
• Marco Polo Physarum - October 1, 2012
• Sexism in Science - September 28, 2012
• Imaging Atoms - September 26, 2012
• Bubbles and Boiling - September 24, 2012
• Bonding Teflon® - September 21, 2012
• Droplet Logic - September 19, 2012
• Worldwide Wind - September 17, 2012
• Readability and Word Length - September 14, 2012
• Tough Gel - September 12, 2012
• Shoulders of Giants - September 10, 2012
• Twisty Cucumbers, All Alike - September 7, 2012
• Top Ten Numbers - September 5, 2012
• Work - September 3, 2012
• Harder than Diamond - August 31, 2012
• Parallax and Stellar Aberration - August 29, 2012
• Crumpling - August 27, 2012
• Seawater Uranium - August 24, 2012
• A Room Temperature Maser - August 22, 2012
• Entropic Order - August 20, 2012
• Local Dark Matter/A Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays - August 17, 2012
• Psychology of Red - August 15, 2012
• Bernard Lovell - August 13, 2012
• Martin Fleischmann - August 10, 2012
• Icing-Resistant Surfaces - August 8, 2012
• Math is Tough, but Boys are Tougher - August 6, 2012
• Semiconductor Radiation Damage - August 3, 2012
• Holey Numbers - August 1, 2012
• Tree Rings - July 30, 2012
• Word Correlations - July 27, 2012
• Triboelectric Generators - July 25, 2012
• Coal - July 23, 2012
• A Fundamental Ampere - July 20, 2012
• Flow Batteries - July 18, 2012
• Science and Math - July 16, 2012
• Data Mining Emigration Rate - July 13, 2012
• Sea Level Rise - July 11, 2012
• Edison's Nickel-Iron Battery Modernized - July 9, 2012
• Our Technologist Forefathers - July 3, 2012
• Nuclear Benford - July 2, 2012
• Fractional Intelligence - June 29, 2012
• William S. Knowles - June 28, 2012
• Carbon Voltaic Energy - June 27, 2012
• DNA Extended Character Set - June 26, 2012
• The Winds of Mars - June 25, 2012
• Alan Turing - June 22, 2012
• Nanocoaxial Capacitors - June 21, 2012
• Tidal Forces - June 20, 2012
• Blaise Pascal - June 19, 2012
• The Human Microbiome - June 18, 2012
• Scientist Novelists - June 15, 2012
• James Prescott Joule - June 14, 2012
• Intervehicle Communications - June 13, 2012
• The Yarkovsky Effect - June 12, 2012
• Memristor Identity Crisis - June 11, 2012
• Interdisciplinarity in Physics - June 8, 2012
• Full Genome Sequencing - June 7, 2012
• Numb3rs - June 6, 2012
• Nickel-Copper Nanowires - June 5, 2012
• Lunar Water - June 4, 2012
• Tesla and Schumann - June 1, 2012
• Mystifying Metamaterials - May 31, 2012
• Quo Vadis? - May 30, 2012
• Jurassic Ink - May 29, 2012
• Oxygen-Enriched Combustion - May 28, 2012
• Eugene Polley and the Television Remote - May 25, 2012
• Space Weather - May 24, 2012
• Vacuum Transistor - May 23, 2012
• Entangled - May 22, 2012
• IceCube - May 21, 2012
• Science and the Atlantis Myth - May 18, 2012
• Packing and Filling - May 17, 2012
• Dino Farts and Fleas - May 16, 2012
• William Duddell's Singing Sparks - May 15, 2012
• Vesta Vistas - May 14, 2012
• Terraforming - May 11, 2012
• Free-Space Optical Communications II - May 10, 2012
• Smith Numbers - May 9, 2012
• ALGOL and Algol - May 8, 2012
• There's a Hot Wind A-Blowin' - May 7, 2012
• Man and His Symbols - May 4, 2012
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz - May 3, 2012
• Superhydrophobic Anti-Glare Glass - May 2, 2012
• Baking Powder's Harvard Pedigree - May 1, 2012
• Solar Energy Scorecard - April 30, 2012
• Robotic SETI - April 27, 2012
• Tricky and Unusual Math Problems - April 26, 2012
• Optical Yagi-Uda Nanoantennas - April 25, 2012
• Tin Pest and Purple Plague - April 24, 2012
• A Dearth of Dark Matter - April 23, 2012
• Fire - April 20, 2012
• Asteroid Deflection - April 19, 2012
• Spiny Photovoltaics - April 18, 2012
• The Periodic Table Table - April 17, 2012
• Nano Copper Catalyst - April 16, 2012
• Electrorheology - April 13, 2012
• The Eightfold Way(s) - April 12, 2012
• Electric Vehicle Radio - April 11, 2012
• Dense Suspensions - April 10, 2012
• Arctangent Diophantine Equations - April 9, 2012
• Calculating Easter - April 5-8, 2012
• Phyllotaxis - April 4, 2012
• Carbon Fibers - April 3, 2012
• Patently Obvious - April 2, 2012
• Supersonic Biplane - March 30, 2012
• Radioactive Fountains of the Deep - March 29, 2012
• A Hierarchy of the Sciences - March 28, 2012
• Earthquake Warning - March 27, 2012
• Thorium Nuclear Clock - March 26, 2012
• Laser Lightning Rod - March 23, 2012
• Optical Flow - March 22, 2012
• Planetary System Formation - March 21, 2012
• Evolution of Road Networks - March 20, 2012
• White Roofs - March 19, 2012
• Ytterbium Atomic Clock - March 16, 2012
• F. Sherwood Rowland - March 15, 2012
• Pi Day - March 14, 2012
• George Heilmeier and the DARPA Questions - March 13, 2012
• Spider Silk - March 12, 2012
• Stalled Science - March 9, 2012
• Nomad Planets - March 8, 2012
• Magnetic Yeast - March 7, 2012
• Tiny Droplets - March 6, 2012
• Newton's Gravitational Theorem - March 5, 2012
• Bridging the Last Mile - March 2, 2012
• Roll Your Own Nanotubes - March 1, 2012
• Tellurium - A Stellar Material - February 29, 2012
• Ordovician Carbon Sinks - February 28, 2012
• Roy Britten and "Junk" DNA - February 27, 2012
• A Single-Atom Transistor - February 24, 2012
• Pop-Up Robots - February 23, 2012
• Solar Whispers - February 22, 2012
• George Eastman and Kodak - February 21, 2012
• Presidents of Purpose - February 20, 2012
• Zinc and The Simpsons - February 17, 2012
• Graphene Mass Standard - February 16, 2012
• Potential Energy Storage - February 15, 2012
• Sand Dunes - February 14, 2012
• Bubble Rockets - February 13, 2012
• Welding Nanowires - February 10, 2012
• Science and Philosophy - February 9, 2012
• "Anti" Gravity - February 8, 2012
• However the Wind Blows - February 7, 2012
• Far Side of the Moon - February 6, 2012
• Scorpion Windbreakers - February 3, 2012
• Sackur-Tetrode - February 2, 2012
• Friction - February 1, 2012
• Computation Energetics - January 31, 2012
• An X-ray Laser - January 30, 2012
• Infants Possess a Physics Engine - January 27, 2012
• Science in a Hundred Words - January 26, 2012
• The Methane Greenhouse - January 25, 2012
• Vegard and the Periodic Table - January 24, 2012
• Faster Fourier Transforms - January 23, 2012
• Billions and Billions - January 20, 2012
• Silver Ink - January 19, 2012
• Working with Whey - January 18, 2012
• Inexpensive Photovoltaics - January 17, 2012
• Nature Abhors Quasicrystals - January 16, 2012
• Ohm's Law at the Atomic Scale - January 13, 2012
• Cryptography for Kids - January 12, 2012
• Boron Nanoribbons - January 11, 2012
• Colloidal Shear - January 10, 2012
• Environmental Mercury - January 9, 2012
• Optical Memory - January 6, 2012
• Open Office - January 5, 2012
• Scoring the Hits - January 4, 2012
• Bohr Model of the Atom - January 3, 2012
• Charles A. Walton and RFID - January 2, 2012

2011
• Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh - December 23, 2011
• Supercooled Water - December 22, 2011
• Estimation - December 21, 2011
• Superannuated Scientists - December 20, 2011
• Silver Nanowire Transparent Electrodes - December 19, 2011
• Modeling Scientific Citation - December 16, 2011
• Ternary Pyrite Photovoltaics - December 15, 2011
• Resonant Light Conversion - December 14, 2011
• Lithium Ion Electrodes - December 13, 2011
• Combinatorial Research - December 12, 2011
• Molybdenum Disulfide Circuitry - December 9, 2011
• Terrestrial Planets - December 8, 2011
• Electret Energy Harvester - December 7, 2011
• Pliable Resin - December 6, 2011
• The Incredible Lightness of Being - December 5, 2011
• Flavor Networks - December 2, 2011
• Global Greenhouse - December 1, 2011
• Alpha Anisotropy - November 30, 2011
• Oenodynamics - November 29, 2011
• Lynn Margulis - November 28, 2011
• Thanksgiving - November 24-25, 2011
• Very White and Very Black - November 23, 2011
• Harvesting Radio Frequency Energy - November 22, 2011
• Orbital Solar Energy - November 21, 2011
• Tea Party Technologists - November 18, 2011
• Screech! - November 17, 2011
• Gilbert N. Lewis - November 16, 2011
• Coupled Oscillators - November 15, 2011
• Open Access - November 14, 2011
• Negative Thermal Expansion - November 11, 2011
• Cyber Warfare - November 10, 2011
• Geothermal Energy - November 9, 2011
• Laser Light, Laser White - November 8, 2011
• Andy Rooney on Mobile Computing Devices - November 7, 2011
• Secret Writing - November 4, 2011
• Rheometry - November 3, 2011
• Experimental Mathematics - November 2, 2011
• John McCarthy - November 1, 2011
• Oh No!-October Snow! - October 31, 2011
• Self-Oscillation - October 28, 2011
• Stone-Age Internet - October 27, 2011
• Herbert A. Hauptman - October 26, 2011
• Crumpled Paper - October 25, 2011
• Mirific Mercury - October 24, 2011
• Phased Array Detectors - October 21, 2011
• Koomey's Law - October 20, 2011
• Gamma Rays from the Crab Nebula - October 19, 2011
• Lake Ellsworth Antarctica - October 18, 2011
• Dennis Ritchie - October 17, 2011
• Extreme Intelligence - October 14, 2011
• Rounded Corners and Squircles - October 13, 2011
• Top Ten Lists - October 12, 2011
• Flow Cytometry - October 11, 2011
• Lee Davenport and Radar - October 10, 2011
• The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - October 7, 2011
• The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics - October 6, 2011
• Near Earth Asteroids - October 5, 2011
• Camouflage - October 4, 2011
• Wilson Greatbatch - Inventor of the First Practical Implantable Cardiac Pacemaker - October 3, 2011
• Second Harmonic Light Generation - September 30, 2011
• The Genius Class of 2011 - September 29, 2011
• Electricity, Magnetism and Morality - September 28, 2011
• Thomas P. Brody, Co-Inventor of the Active Matrix LCD - September 27, 2011
• Tachyons - September 26, 2011
• Ping Pong with Electrons - September 23, 2011
• Negative Capacitance - September 22, 2011
• Special Numbers - September 21, 2011
• Solar-Pumped Laser - September 20, 2011
• Earth's Heavy Metal Allotment - September 19, 2011
• Too Big to Fail? - September 16, 2011
• Slimy Computation - September 15, 2011
• Maxwell, Boltzmann and Brown - September 14, 2011
• How Many Domains of Life? - September 13, 2011
• Electromigration - September 12, 2011
• Maria Goeppert Mayer - September 9, 2011
• Chocolate Chemistry - September 8, 2011
• Four Square Theorem - September 7, 2011
• Carbon Nanotube Capillarity - September 6, 2011
• Water Photolysis by Antimony-Doped Gallium Nitride - September 1, 2011
• Gale Crater - August 31, 2011
• Cosmic Cooling - August 30, 2011
• Computed Science - August 29, 2011
• How Many Species? (Part II) - August 26, 2011
• Coffee Rings (Part II) - August 25, 2011
• ArXiv at Twenty - August 24, 2011
• Sound and Heat - August 23, 2011
• Gender Recognition - August 22, 2011
• Tycho Brahe - August 19, 2011
• Free-Space Optical Communications - August 18, 2011
• Word Extinction - August 17, 2011
• Cantilever Energy Harvesting - August 16, 2011
• His Master's Voice - August 15, 2011
• Towers of Physics - August 12, 2011
• The Lonely Runner Conjecture - August 11, 2011
• Kind of a Drag - August 10, 2011
• Vacuum Tube Redux - August 9, 2011
• Watermark Ink - August 8, 2011
• Wind-Up Toys - August 5, 2011
• Minority Report - August 4, 2011
• IBM Selectric Typewriter - August 3, 2011
• Science as Data Compression - August 2, 2011
• The S-Curve - August 1, 2011
• Leidenfrost Ratchet - July 29, 2011
• Taxing Times for Solar - July 28, 2011
• Trees (Wooden Variety) - July 27, 2011
• Radioactive Heat - July 26, 2011
• The Telegraph - July 25, 2011
• Ampex - July 22, 2011
• Flywheel Energy Storage - July 21, 2011
• Mass Quantities of Rare Earth - July 20, 2011
• Physics Top Fifty - July 19, 2011
• Vesta - July 18, 2011
• Squaring the Circle - July 15, 2011
• Tibetan Singing Bowls - July 14, 2011
• Under Pressure - July 13, 2011
• Frederick Terman - July 12, 2011
• Multiferroic Energy - July 11, 2011
• Landauer Limit - July 8, 2011
• Solar Ceria - July 7, 2011
• Analog Memory - July 6, 2011
• Generating X-rays - July 5, 2011
• People Who Live in Concrete Houses... - June 30, 2011
• Flash Bainite - June 29, 2011
• Segmentation - June 28, 2011
• Lexical Distance - June 27, 2011
• Graphene Resonators - June 24, 2011
• Special K - June 23, 2011
• Bob Pease - June 22, 2011
• Phase Change Conductance - June 21, 2011
• 100 Years of IBM - June 20, 2011
• Coffee Thermodynamics - June 17, 2011
• Robert A. Helliwell - June 16, 2011
• The Larch - June 15, 2011
• All the Marbles - June 14, 2011
• Optical Antennas - June 13, 2011
• Transparent and Conductive - June 10, 2011
• Power Tie - June 9, 2011
• The Teleprompter - June 8, 2011
• Bubble Noise Reduction - June 7, 2011
• Solar Nevada - June 6, 2011
• College Cost/Benefit Analysis - June 3, 2011
• Reindeer Ultraviolet Vision - June 2, 2011
• Manganese Photolysis of Water - June 1, 2011
• Space Futurist - May 31, 2011
• Maurice Goldhaber - May 30, 2011
• Brain Training - May 27, 2011
• What is Energy? - May 26, 2011
• Science-Mart - May 25, 2011
• Nano-Grained Structural Materials - May 24, 2011
• Willard Boyle and the CCD - May 23, 2011
• Salt Water Energy - May 20, 2011
• Random Walks and Levy Flights - May 19, 2011
• H. Guyford Stever - May 18, 2011
• Reaction of Aluminum with Water - May 17, 2011
• Anharmonic Strings - May 16, 2011
• Auxetics - May 13, 2011
• Graphene-Assisted Optical Modulator - May 12, 2011
• Energy Elements - May 11, 2011
• Transistors in Three Dimensions - May 10, 2011
• Measuring the Fabric of Spacetime - May 9, 2011
• Scientific Thought - May 6, 2011
• Acoustic Energy Harvesting - May 5, 2011
• Hyper-Spinning Regulus - May 4, 2011
• Reaching the Bottom - May 3, 2011
• Metallic Beetles - May 2, 2011
• Centers of Excellence - April 29, 2011
• Soap Films - April 28, 2011
• CDs and Digital Recording - April 27, 2011
• Allen Telescope Array - April 26, 2011
• Magnetocaloric & Electrocaloric Effects - April 25, 2011
• Gut Bacteria - April 22, 2011
• Fair Carpooling Algorithm - April 21, 2011
• Unusual Amplifiers - April 20, 2011
• Environmental Energy Harvesting - April 19, 2011
• William Lipscomb - April 18, 2011
• The Western Intellectual Tradition - April 15, 2011
• The Collatz Conjecture - April 14, 2011
• The Late Heavy Bombardment - April 13, 2011
• Secure Labeling - April 12, 2011
• What's in a Name? - April 11, 2011
• A Hundred Years of Superconductivity - April 8, 2011
• Rutgers Goes Solar - April 7, 2011
• Maxwell's Other Equations - April 6, 2011
• Size Matters - April 5, 2011
• MEMS Resonator Logic Gate - April 4, 2011
• Is Religion becoming Extinct? - April 1, 2011
• Celebrating COBOL - March 31, 2011
• Magnetic Vortex Disks - March 30, 2011
• Harry Coover and Super Glue - March 29, 2011
• Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Composites - March 28, 2011
• Everything Becomes Trivial - March 25, 2011
• Spin - March 24, 2011
• A MEMS-FET Memory Cell - March 23, 2011
• Four Hundred Years of Sunspots - March 22, 2011
• Who Invented the Computer? - March 21, 2011
• Beethoven vs Bacteria - March 18, 2011
• Eratosthenes - March 17, 2011
• Cow Farts and Beefy Burps - March 16, 2011
• MESSENGER Space Probe at Mercury - March 15, 2011
• Carbon Nano-Aerogel - March 14, 2011
• Acoustic Emission - March 11, 2011
• Paper Accelerometer - March 10, 2011
• Superconductivity with a Twist - March 9, 2011
• Bound by Your Words - March 8, 2011
• Depletion Attraction - March 7, 2011
• Marriage Problems in Math - March 4, 2011
• The Kessler Syndrome - March 3, 2011
• LOFAR, Not LOTR - March 2, 2011
• Van Gogh Versus the Sulfates - March 1, 2011
• Chip Fingerprinting - February 28, 2011
• Solar Power at Princeton University - February 25, 2011
• Optical Hydrogel Sensor - February 24, 2011
• Augustine Lays Down the Law - February 23, 2011
• Piezomolecular Effect - February 22, 2011
• Partitioning - February 21, 2011
• Earthquake Prediction - February 18, 2011
• Lightning Generated Antimatter - February 17, 2011
• Titania Photocatalysis - February 16, 2011
• US Offshore Wind Strategy - February 15, 2011
• A Foucault Gyroscope - February 14, 2011
• Geomagnetic Alignment of Cattle - February 11, 2011
• Statistics and Precognition - February 10, 2011
• Ken Olsen - February 9, 2011
• Scientific Collaboration - February 8, 2011
• Second Law of Thermodynamics - February 7, 2011
• Super Science Sunday - February 4, 2011
• Fractional Charge - February 3, 2011
• Atmospheric Dust - February 2, 2011
• Spintronics - February 1, 2011
• Hedonometrics - January 31, 2011
• Steam Power - January 28, 2011
• Science Education - January 27, 2011
• Catalytic Abiogenesis - January 26, 2011
• Untouched by Human Hands - January 25, 2011
• Pyrite Photovoltaics - January 24, 2011
• The Carbon Footprint of Science - January 21, 2011
• Unfettered Access - January 20, 2011
• Algorithmic Music - January 19, 2011
• Snowflakes - January 18, 2011
• Computational Biomimetics - January 17, 2011
• Faux Palladium - January 14, 2011
• Culturomics - January 13, 2011
• Ransomed Content - January 12, 2011
• Bigger than a Butterfly - January 11, 2011
• Dialect - January 10, 2011
• Spaghetti in Physics and Math - January 7, 2011
• Radar and Lunar Lidar - January 6, 2011
• Arsenic-Based Life? - January 5, 2011
• Tobacco Chemicals - January 4, 2011
• Prognostication - January 3, 2011

2010
• Christmas Holiday - December 20, 2010
• A Place for Mathematics - December 17, 2010
• Anthropology is Not Science - December 16, 2010
• The Klystron - December 15, 2010
• Flying Cars and Four Day Work Weeks - December 14, 2010
• Thomas J. Ahrens - December 13, 2010
• Coffee Rings - December 10, 2010
• Radar Plots - December 9, 2010
• K-12 Computer Education - December 8, 2010
• Saving the World with Engineering - December 7, 2010
• Scratching Diamond - December 6, 2010
• The Quality of Chairness - December 3, 2010
• Fog Water Harvesting - December 2, 2010
• Math Counts - December 1, 2010
• Packing - November 30, 2010
• Leaded Brass - November 29, 2010
• Fountains of the Deep - November 24, 2010
• The Number Dirf - November 23, 2010
• Whither WIMPs - November 22, 2010
• Proofiness - November 19, 2010
• Allan R. Sandage - November 18, 2010
• Benchmarks - November 17, 2010
• Cosmic Ice and Galactic Flatulence - November 16, 2010
• Landslide Sensor - November 15, 2010
• A Limit to Science? - November 12, 2010
• Atlantic Wind Power - November 11, 2010
• Forth - November 10, 2010
• Visualizing Science - November 9, 2010
• Comet Hartley - November 8, 2010
• Triangular Arrays - November 5, 2010
• Electronic Paper - November 4, 2010
• The Edge of the Universe - November 3, 2010
• Watts Humphrey - November 2, 2010
• Mass Standard - November 1, 2010
• Too Loud! - October 29, 2010
• The Island of Stability - October 28, 2010
• Scientist Programmers - October 27, 2010
• Entropic Gravity - October 26, 2010
• New Moon - October 25, 2010
• Basic Research - October 22, 2010
• Graphene Transistors - October 21, 2010
• Green Braking - October 20, 2010
• Control Freaks - October 19, 2010
• Benoît Mandelbrot - October 18, 2010
• Pyroelectric Energy Harvesting - October 15, 2010
• The Number 0.999... - October 14, 2010
• Maurice Allais - October 13, 2010
• Big G - October 12, 2010
• High Temperature SiC Switch - October 11, 2010
• Baking Soda and Vinegar - October 8, 2010
• General Relativity Test - October 7, 2010
• 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics - October 6, 2010
• MacArthur Fellows 2010 - October 5, 2010
• Cool Data - October 4, 2010
• Gliese 581g - October 1, 2010
• Nano Memory - September 30, 2010
• Push Button Management - September 29, 2010
• PARC turns Forty - September 28, 2010
• Quantum Random Numbers - September 27, 2010
• Nanotechnology Timeline - September 24, 2010
• Pi is Forever - September 23, 2010
• The High Road - September 22, 2010
• Decadal Survey - September 21, 2010
• Edison's Iron Mine - September 20, 2010
• DNA Analysis - September 17, 2010
• Fine Structure Constant - September 16, 2010
• SETI-AI - September 15, 2010
• Strained Relationships - September 14, 2010
• Punch Cards - September 13, 2010
• David Rowland - September 10, 2010
• Length of Day - September 9, 2010
• Carry On - September 8, 2010
• Paper Chase - September 7, 2010
• Rustum Roy - September 3, 2010
• Dry Water - September 2, 2010
• The Two-by-Two Matrix - September 1, 2010
• Danger, Will Robinson! - August 31, 2010
• Radioactive Decay - August 30, 2010
• Rubik's Cube - August 27, 2010
• Carbon Nano-Onion Supercaps - August 26, 2010
• Public Photons - August 25, 2010
• Thermionic Solar Energy - August 24, 2010
• More than a Number - August 23, 2010
• Online Learning - August 20, 2010
• Smoke and Mirrors - August 19, 2010
• The Collapsing Ivory Tower - August 18, 2010
• Flutter Power - August 17, 2010
• Neptunian Lagrangian Asteroid - August 16, 2010
• Rolling Rubber Bands - August 13, 2010
• How Many Books? - August 12, 2010
• Gorilla Glass - August 11, 2010
• Pumping Water - August 10, 2010
• Crowdsourcing - August 9, 2010
• Sorting Terabytes - August 6, 2010
• Don Backer - August 5, 2010
• The Birthday Problem - August 4, 2010
• Physics Envy - August 3, 2010
• Drawing on Water - August 2, 2010
• Solar Salt - July 30, 2010
• Gallium Nitride Crystals - July 29, 2010
• Another Piece of Pi - July 28, 2010
• Space Balls - July 27, 2010
• Random Computing - July 26, 2010
• The Caves of Mars - July 23, 2010
• Hot Bodies - July 22, 2010
• Photographic Typesetting - July 21, 2010
• Electronic-Book Readers - July 20, 2010
• Buffon's Needle - July 19, 2010
• Ugaritic - July 16, 2010
• Seawater Uranium - July 15, 2010
• The US Cyber Command - July 14, 2010
• Rendezvous with Lutetia - July 13, 2010
• Fat Protons - July 12, 2010
• The Helium Economy - July 9, 2010
• Isotope Forensics - July 8, 2010
• Crop Circles - July 7, 2010
• Grigori Perelman - July 6, 2010
• Codex Arxivus - July 2, 2010
• Timekeeping - July 1, 2010
• Music of the Spheres - June 30, 2010
• Lithium Supply - June 29, 2010
• Antennae - June 28, 2010
• Lousy Science Yields Good Art - June 25, 2010
• ARM Processors - June 24, 2010
• Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells - June 23, 2010
• The Witch of Agnesi - June 22, 2010
• Rare Earth Shortage - June 21, 2010
• Less Science in Pennsylvania - June 18, 2010
• Life Everywhere NASA Looks? - June 17, 2010
• Stuck in the Solar Minimum - June 16, 2010
• How Many Species? - June 15, 2010
• Journal Pricing Protest - June 14, 2010
• Nicholas Metropolis - June 11, 2010
• Mozart Microbes - June 10, 2010
• The Manganese Conspiracy - June 9, 2010
• Fifty Years of Lasers - June 8, 2010
• Physical Hierarchies - June 7, 2010
• Let's Agree to Disagree - June 4, 2010
• A THX 1138 Future? - June 3, 2010
• Morphing Neutrinos - June 2, 2010
• The Water Equivalent of Energy - June 1, 2010
• Martin Gardner - May 31, 2010
• Letter to the Editor - May 29, 2010
• Nothing New Under The Sun - May 28, 2010
• Real World Science is Interdisciplinary - May 26, 2010
• Career Choice - May 20, 2010



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