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Back in Houston after a great Association of Children's Museums' conference! Will be posting more photos and information from it. However, the big news is that the next conference will ... more»
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Earth Day 2010 is tomorrow and the Children's Museum of Houston is celebrating what we can do to positively impact the environment. Events start Thursday and last all weekend - ... more»
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Elysia chlorotica, better known as the green sea slug, is a thief - plain and simple. These slugs dine on algae and have, apparently, managed to steal the genes necessary ... more»
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Back in 2006, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a very precise clock based on a single mercury atom. It would neither gain nor lose a ... more»
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Brigham Young researcher Dr. Aaron Hawkins has been working to create microchips that can actually detect viruses and other materials down to the nanoscale. It uses a unique filtering mechanism ... more»
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Now I feel old. The Rubik's cube is turning 30 this year. I remember when this little puzzle (and all of its offspring) were wandering the halls of my schools, ... more»
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For the next few days, Houston will be a part of an arctic cold blast, one of a series that will have some areas of the U.S. never getting above the single ... more»
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I think we've all seen this movie - a killer asteroid is coming to Earth to wipe out all living things, so an ambitious US government led by a dashing ... more»
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Diabetics may soon be shedding tears of joy at the new annoucement that Dr. Jin Zhang, a researcher at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, has embedded nanoparticles in ... more»
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I have been preaching for years that while good hand washing is appropriate for helping to keep you from catching diseases, the overuse of antibacterial lotions is going to make ... more»
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