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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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Though it’s been year of scandal for two of the largest interactive sites on the web, the loose nature of open-source content has emerged unscathed. First came the Craiglist sex […]
No country wants to discover it is facing a food shortage, but too often countries find out about shortages after they are too late. Faced with this conundrum, NASA wants […]
While you were soaking up the sun at your Memorial Day barbecue, hopefully you raised a glass to the Mars Phoenix Lander. It was the one-year anniversary of the plucky […]
Over a century ago, a Russian scientist dreamed up the idea for a space elevator. It was an audacious scheme for a cable to connect the Earth to space allowing […]
You may have heard about Wolfram Alpha, tech savant Stephen Wolfram’s new query-answering search engine. And if you follow gadget and tech reviews, you’ve probably read about what the engine […]
Radio listeners freaked out when Queen’s six-minute magnum opus Bohemian Rhapsody debuted in the 1970s. Now the sprawling rock anthem is proving too much to handle for a new group […]
Human hearing picks up only a limited range of frequencies, and that range diminishes as we age and our ears deteriorate—just think of the high-frequency cellphone rings that high school […]
As if checking out satellite photos of your home’s rooftop weren’t enough fun, Google Earth expanded to the bottom of the the ocean, the surface of Mars, and, of course, […]
Until some mad genetic engineer with a cache of tropical real estate makes Jurassic Park a reality, the details of the lives of dinosaurs beyond what fossils and fossilized footprints […]
It’s one of the scariest things you could experience in a war zone: a bullet strikes near you, you know not from where it came, and another one is probably […]
President Obama may have gone on Jay Leno last night to reach out to the everyday American, but this week the Administration has been quietly reaching out to the rest […]
The environmentalist’s horror image of an oil spill is usually the affliction to wildlife—birds and fish coated in black crude, struggling to move or to breathe. But a study by […]
More bad climate news out of the journal Science—the Earth, as a whole, has been seeing less and less of the sun over the last 30 years. Maybe the global […]
Every day, it seems, your DNA spills more and more secrets about you. This time it’s the color of your eyes. Researchers in the Netherlands just published a study in […]
Comic villains are always hatching nefarious schemes. These usually involve forcing a superhero to choose between saving an entire planet or the woman he loves. Why are ecologists finding themselves […]
Ricky Gervais doesn’t do Twitter as he so glibly told Big Think this week. John McCain’s tweets can’t seem to get beyond his ranting crusade against earmarks — and science. […]
It was a hot few weeks for global warming deniers like George Will and Matt Drudge. That is until a winter storm slammed the East Coast and buried any chance […]
The space shuttle program, set for retirement next year, appears to be limping to its death. First, the shuttle Discovery’s mission to the International Space Station was delayed this week—again. […]
Even before a U.S. communications satellite and a long-defunct Russian orbiter ran into each other last week and created millions of smaller pieces of debris, the space around Earth was […]
For the United States to reach any major goals for renewable energy, it’s going to need major infrastructure development—not only does it have to build the wind farms where it’s […]