If one follows news online one finds what seem to be a growing number of stories about the surveillance state, or restraint of free speech, or about small town tyranny. Apopka, Florida has the managed to combine all of these together, if...
Equinox Arrives September 22nd Why is the time of the equinox so specific? S&T's editors explain.
For those of us already seeing blushing foliage or feeling a chill in the air, it might seem as though autumn has already arrived. But astronomically speaking, fall officially comes...
Comet ISON Preview (Video) S&T senior editor Alan MacRobert tells you what you need to know to get ready for Comet ISON.
When amateur astronomers discovered Comet ISON in September 2012, its unusual brightness caused some to hail it as the “Comet of the Century,” on a perilous course to...
