Last week's virtual demo of D-Wave’s proof-of-concept quantum computer has of course been greeted with quite a bit of skepticism. Regardless, any developments that increase our knowledge – or simply ...

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams October 12th marks the 32nd anniversary of the publication ...

Not since the cold fusion confusion of 1989 has the pop science media industry had a story like the EmDrive. The EmDrive is a propellantless thruster – a device that turns RF energy into force. If it ...

Watching a DVD of Ween play at the Wetlands circa fall 1991 was odder than I thought it would be, and not necessarily because of the admittedly very odd music. There are plenty of bands now, in 2007 ...

If you apply the Infinite Monkey Theorem to baseball, you’ll get something like the Durham Bulls’ 10-9, 14-inning win over Gwinnett last night. It’s unlikely that a monkey will type Hamlet, but it’s ...