Infographic: The Rise and Fall of Scoring in Baseball

From the dead-ball era to the steroids era, the balance between pitchers and hitters has always been in flux
April 05, 2012 | By Craig Robinson

Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack

America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing
April 2012 | By Ron Rosenbaum

Top Ten Most-Destructive Computer Viruses

Created by amateur hackers, underground crime syndicates and government agencies, these powerful viruses have done serious damage to computer networks worldwide
March 20, 2012 | By Sharon Weinberger

Alan Turing’s 60-Year-Old Prediction About Patterns in Nature Proven True

Sixty years ago, with nothing but numbers, logic and some basic know-how, the inventor of the Turing Test explained how to make a stripe
February 21, 2012 | By Virginia Hughes

The Best Science Visualizations of the Year

Browse through the winning images that turn scientific exploration into art
February 15, 2012 | By Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski

Super Bowl Science: Are Football Coaches Irrational?

Studies show that coaches often make poor choices in crucial situations. But one coach may have a secret advantage
February 03, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Could the Death Star Destroy a Planet?

Students in England concluded that the Star Wars space station could easily have destroyed an Earth-like planet
January 11, 2012 | By Sarah Zielinski

Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know

Albert Einstein called Emmy Noether a "creative mathematical genius"
October 07, 2011 | By Sarah Zielinski

Six Ways to Celebrate Pi Day

Today is March 14, or 3.14, the day we celebrate the mathematical constant pi (π). Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is an irrational number, meaning that it can't be expressed as a simple fraction of two integers. It is also a transcendental number, which means it is not a...
March 14, 2011 | By Sarah Zielinski

Win A Million Dollars With Science

Last week, a neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston won $1 million from Prize4Life for his discovery of a reliable way to monitor progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Prize4Life, which also has an ongoing competition for deve...
February 07, 2011 | By Sarah Zielinski

A Walk Through the Woods Leads to Insight on Numbers

You're familiar with partition numbers, even if you don't recognize the term; even kindergartners know them. The partition of a number is all the ways that you can use integers to add up to that number. Start with 2. There is only one way to get there: 1 + 1. The number 3 has 2 partitions: 2 + 1 an...
January 24, 2011 | By Sarah Zielinski

Comedians Discussing Chaos Theory? Only on British TV

One of the things I love about visiting the U.K. is British television. Specifically what my friend calls "quiz shows." That's not quite the right name for them, though, because they usually consist of a panel (or two) of comedians discussing anything from current events to music to natural history...
October 25, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

The Science of Football

A roundup of how scientists explain America's most popular sport
September 09, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Time to Stop Measuring Fuel Economy in MPG?

Today, if you go to buy a new car, you'll find a sticker like the one on the right giving you a bunch of data on fuel economy: the miles per gallon you'll get on the highway and in the city and the estimated annual fuel cost (based on 15,000 miles driven over a year and gas costing $2.80 per gallon...
September 01, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

The Calculus Diaries

Though I was a very good at math in school, I usually found the subject incredibly boring, so much so that I often slept through class (teachers didn't mind as long as I aced the exams). The one exception was a college math course for biologists that gave us real-world problems like figuring out th...
August 31, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Charging Ahead With a New Electric Car

An entrepreneur hits the road with a new approach for an all-electric car that overcomes its biggest shortcoming
August 2010 | By Joshua Hammer

A Coral Reef Constructed From Yarn

This fall, a different kind of coral reef will be on display in the National Museum of Natural History's Ocean Hall. It's not made out of the calcium carbonate skeletons of living coral. It's made out of wool. And acrylic, and cotton, and whatever other fibers local yarn artists get their hands on....
July 29, 2010 | By admin

How Much of Your Tax Money Went to Science?

By now you probably should have mailed off those forms or pushed the send button on that computer program—it's April 15, tax day—though I'm sure there are plenty who will be making that 11:45 p.m. drive to the post office tonight. I've joked in the past that my tax money only goes to science (someo...
April 15, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

A Level Playing Field for Science

I suppose, in a way, I should thank the woman who tried to compliment me when I was in high school by saying that I was too pretty for science. What she was really saying was that girls don't belong in science, and that got me so riled up I'm still ticked off nearly two decades later. But at least ...
March 23, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

Elementary School Teachers Pass on Math Fear to Girls

We know that girls can do math, and be very good at it. But a new study published this week in PNAS shows that some girls in elementary school aren't learning just how to add one plus one—they are learning that girls should be scared of those numbers. Just like their teachers.University of Chicago ...
January 26, 2010 | By Sarah Zielinski

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