 Two teams with United States participation are angling to build the next-generation telescope, which will peer at the very edges of the universe, into galaxies that were created immediately after the Big Bang. And as a citizen of a country that’s learning how to tighten its belt, I’m going to suggest they get together [...]
I wish I remembered which science conference that was. There was a small presentation room, with a handful of speakers who projected their slides onto a big screen, as usual. But hardly anyone was in the audience; the sessions in rooms down the hall were much more crowded. The title, something about quantifying nature’s value [...]
The Colorado River in Grand Canyon remains flooded with controversy, more than a decade after federal policies were established to regulate flows out of Glen Canyon Dam. I was tipped off to the latest round of legal battles by a blog post in Arizona Geology, “Science ignored in Grand Canyon flows.” In the short item, author and state [...]
Doctors are sounding the alarm about a shortage of radioactive materials used to guide surgery and examine medical conditions like heart disease and cancer. The shortage is fallout from worldwide efforts to restrict the production of nuclear bombs. As more reactors are abandoned around the globe in anti-proliferation efforts, supplies for medical radionuclides are also drying up. But one [...]