A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a... →
Amity Shlaes
Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.
Bobby Short
Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang... →
Seth Shostak
While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to... →
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a... →
While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any... →
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these... →
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of... →
Alex Shoumatoff
While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure... →
Bill Shuster
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we... →
Jane Siberry