Research at a snail's pace

I've been dabbling in astrophotography lately. I'm building a "barn-door" mount and also fitting a worm-drive motor to an ...

The Egyptians worshipped us as gods. Future archeologists will look at your Facebook timeline and reach the same conclusion about you. Now, ...

My biggest problem with photography during field work is the issue of water and dust. Neither of which are really good for expensive cameras...

One of the challenges in teaching Plate Tectonics to introductory students is that - along with being spread out over a huge scale - most o...

It's been a cold winter up here. And we're in the middle of a pretty impressive snowstorm, too. I suspect we're going to lose...

It's been cold around here. Very cold. Cold enough that boiling hot water seems to instantly vanish into clouds of steam when thrown ...