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Andrew Moseman
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I'm a science writer who currently covers the news for publications like Popular Mechanics, Discover and others. I have wide-ranging interests inside science, but especially love weird science, astronomy and energy. A Nebraska native, I'm now a Brooklynite after more than enough wandering around.
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Some people are highly motivated to come to work and believe what they do matters; some people don’t think they’re work is important and show up for the paycheck. Both […]
How happy are you, on a scale of 1 to 10? If you don’t know how to answer that, you’re not alone. Surveying people about their happiness is notoriously problematic, […]
The source of the controversy in the psychology community this week is the Rorschach Test. You may not recognize that name, but you’ve seen parts of the test before: they’re those […]
Would today’s Major League Baseball bar Lou Gehrig? That’s the argument some are using to oppose a new announcement by the MLB: the league is conducting genetic testing on some […]
The continued downward trend of total sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most obvious bellwethers of climate change, and now it is allowing an even more striking […]
You may have missed it between the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing and the glowing tributes to the man who broadcast it to much of America, the […]
Often when we hear people arguing about the point of sex, it is defenders of sex education who fight moralist crusaders that want to save it for marriage and procreation. […]
As many of last week’s events made clear, the future of nuclearism will depend, in many ways, on just how the international community is able to forge a balance between […]
The Pew Research Center has just released its new polling data on the state of science, and attitudes toward science in America are just as disheartening as you might imagine. […]
The real Tony La Russa had no legal case against the fake Tony La Russa, at least not on Twitter. The manager of the St. Louis Cardinals filed his suit […]
Salinity has plagued agriculture since humans stopped hunting and gathering and started growing their own crops. Salty soil, coupled with over-irrigation, helped turn the Fertile Crescent into a modern-day desert, and salinity […]
Japan may be one of the world leaders in developing renewable energy, but the country’s green tech sector seems to be either making too much noise, or too little. Gas-electric hybrids […]
In today’s Science, the team behind the Phoenix Lander mission published four studies giving an assessment of their data since the lander died on the Martin surface last November. The […]
Malicious computer attacks act a lot like Michael Jackson fans. And in the digital age, both can have quite the ripple effect. Since the King of Pop’s passing on Thursday […]
More information keeps trickling in on Tuesday’s Washington D.C. Metro accident. With the official death toll now at nine with 80 injured, it all serves as a reminder that no […]
You’ve probably felt the increase in your heart rate listening to a fiery punk song or the relaxation induced by a slow ballad. But Italian researchers just completed a study […]
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is on its way. After a flawless launch at about 5:30 Eastern Time yesterday, NASA’s nearly $600 million satellite is en route to the moon. The […]
While most of the high-minded concern over the death of newspapers has been over the quality of future reporting and the role of news in a democratic society, it has […]
A giant magma pool sits underneath Yellowstone National Park, threatening to erupt on a monumental scale, and now it seems the U.S. could harbor a second such supervolcano in a […]
Net neutrality in Britain might be on thin ice, but this week’s European Parliament elections could set a new course for digital legislation across the continent. The British government is […]