Science Spectrum

…and its beastly cousins

Finding a Balance Between Corporate and Personal Eco-Responsibility

How many of these creative puzzles can you solve?

Solving the Mystery of the Dark Night Sky

Why you should always pay attention to a theorem’s hypotheses

Around 70% of our genes are the same as a sea sponge

Hello, Friends. Happy Pi Day! Here’s a musical celebration. (3/14/25)

The science of a sacred mineral and its ties to mercury...

What an often-overlooked statistical quirk has to do with the UK’s 1951 general election and the 2024 broadcast of a multi-award winning…

Time for medicine to escape its black-and-white prison

Is it even a paradox?

Optical Phenomena Related to Colors

Like Plato’s cave allegory, the dramatic phenomena we observe are just shadows of an unseen reality

How a kitchen convenience was a harbinger of chemical pollution…

Sometimes, 1 + 1 Does Not Equal 2

Extreme events often appear to be outliers and are subsequently overlooked despite their significance in understanding a given phenomenon…

Even before Darwin, everybody knew and accepted it. But Darwin gave evolution a new twist.

Amazingly, you can use the digits of π to generate the base of the natural logarithm, e.

How A Basic Idea Leads to Big Results

Understanding Logarithms at Their Core

At a recent North Coast Puzzle Club meeting, one of our members came up with a dice game loosely derived from the target game of Krypto, a…

The uncomfortable truth about why we keep consulting systems we know are wrong

It’s a rite of passage for a mathematician to fall in love with the twin primes — pairs of primes like (3, 5) or (11, 13) that differ by 2…

It has zero volume, infinite surface area, and real-life applications

A Fun Exploration into Number Theory