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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    DIY feminist science writer Margaret Wertheim discusses the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

    Science writer Margaret Wertheim specializes in weighty topics, but she has a light touch when writing about science and mathematics. The author of several books dealing with theoretical physics within a cultural context as well as articles for numerous publications -- everything from the New York T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    The international FameLab competition is like "American Idol meets Bill Nye the Science Guy"

    Wikimedia Commons​"Think of it as American Idol meets Bill Nye the Science Guy," says David Grinspoon, astrobiology curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. This is his best description of FameLab, an international competition for young scientists that has made its way across the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    60 Minutes in Space: Museum of Nature and Science has an out-of-this-world new series

    What do you get when you combine a super-massive black hole, an eight-year-old Mars Rover, uncharted planets...and a couple of geniuses? 60 Minutes in Space, which debuts at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    We talk with the DMNS Curator of Health Sciences about Gattaca

    ​Tomorrow evening brings the final entry in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's Sci-Fi Film Series at the Phipps Theater, with Gattaca closing the sequence out with a biological bang. As we have been doing lately, we caught up with the DMNS' Curator and Department Chair of Health Science ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Denver International Airport snow can be caused by planes inadvertently seeding clouds?

    Heymsfield.​Why is snow so common at Denver International Airport? A new study led by Andrew Heymsfield, a cloud physicist at Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research, and published in the journal Science suggests that planes can inadvertently seed clouds under the right conditions, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Astrological sign change? Let's just forget this whole thing ever happened

    Sorry, Aquarius. You're too late to get me. ​When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad's who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    Star Light, Star Bright

    Sorry, Aquarius. You're too late to get me. ​When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad's who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 21, 2010

    Roller Skating With My Cousin will have you going in circles

    Sorry, Aquarius. You're too late to get me. ​When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad's who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    Life in Antarctica is cold — but bloggers there can still get burned

    Sorry, Aquarius. You're too late to get me. ​When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad's who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2009

    From the week of April 23, 2009

    Sorry, Aquarius. You're too late to get me. ​When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad's who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2009

    For Colorado's largest power co-op, going green will mean taking down the King of Coal

    Sorry, Aquarius. You're too late to get me. ​When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad's who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    The truth about the Downtown Aquarium's poorly confined piranhas

    As you may have read last week in "Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries," on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank -- and even more disturbed by my irrational ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    The End Is Near

    The Bad Astronomer’s book chronicles the end of the world.

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Do the Dinosaur

    The Denver Museum of Nature & Science brings in an age-old exhibit.

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Former Denver Post columnist Diane Carman shows her partisanship

    The Denver Museum of Nature & Science brings in an age-old exhibit.

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2008

    From Dusk Till Dawn

    The Denver Museum of Nature & Science brings in an age-old exhibit.

  • News

    June 26, 2008

    Cloudy Weather at Denver Meteorologist Conference

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • Calendar

    June 5, 2008

    Ale Watch

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson: Strange Couchfellows

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Hole Lot of Trouble

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2008

    Bill Gray, MIA at the Teach-In

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Step Up the Fight Against Global Warming

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    The California Experiment

    The forecasters, however, have sunny dispositions.

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    The Ice Man

    When Al Gore and other global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to Boulder's Konrad Steffen.

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2007

    'Room for More

    Get up close and personal with fungus.

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2007

    Shower Power

    Alderfer/Three Sisters Park hosts a Perseids party.

  • Calendar

    July 26, 2007

    Acquired Tastes

    Alderfer/Three Sisters Park hosts a Perseids party.

  • Calendar

    June 7, 2007

    Climate Change

    High-school plays examine the environment.

  • News

    October 12, 2006

    Rocket Man

    David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of July 13, 2006

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    The Skeptic

    Celebrated and shunned, CSU's Bill Gray is taking heat in the global-warming debate.

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    Carbon Loading

    Xcel’s solution to rising energy prices includes a lot of coal. Is that a bad thing?

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2005

    An Incredible Journey

    Discover the beauty of India on IMAX.

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2005

    Geeks and Freaks

    Math and art combine forces in the Art + Math = X show.

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Out There

    NASA astronomer makes sense of the cosmos

  • Calendar

    September 18, 2003

    A No-Darwin Situation

    Darwin in the Dreamtime probes the legacy of evolution theory.

  • Culture

    May 29, 2003

    It All Adds Up

    Proof proves to be a wonderful evening of theater.

  • News

    April 25, 2002

    Moon Child

    This Boulder ballerina took a whack at the Big Whack theory -- and one of science's biggest mysteries.

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 29, 2001

    Best Dinosaur Tracks --Indoors

    St. Cajetan Event Center

  • Film

    May 18, 2000

    Deranged in the Mesozoic

    The Disney formula goes disturbingly awry in the off-putting Dinosaur.

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Spies, Lies & Portable Tapes

    The feds were already suspicious of scientist Wen Ho Lee. Then they discovered he’d downloaded every secret in the nuclear arsenal.

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    Quantum Sonics

    The feds were already suspicious of scientist Wen Ho Lee. Then they discovered he’d downloaded every secret in the nuclear arsenal.

  • News

    November 20, 1997

    The Talks Heat Up

    The state's global-warming forums are canceled after foes show up en masse.

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Field of Schemes

    A gem of a story about diamond mines--real and fake!

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    Letters

    A gem of a story about diamond mines--real and fake!

  • News

    October 9, 1997

    Global Warning

    What do you get when greenhouse gases inspire greenhouse guesses? A heated argument--but not much scientific agreement.

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    RBI=MC

    What do you get when greenhouse gases inspire greenhouse guesses? A heated argument--but not much scientific agreement.

  • Culture

    December 19, 1996

    Renaissance Men

    What do you get when greenhouse gases inspire greenhouse guesses? A heated argument--but not much scientific agreement.

  • News

    May 30, 1996

    Seeds of Discontent

    Kansas farmers say their weather-modification program causes rain. Colorado farmers say it causes trouble.

  • News

    January 4, 1995

    THIS IS ONLY A TEST

    THE GOVERNMENT HAS A LESSON FOR GRADE-SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS: THERE'S NOTHING TO FEAR FROM ROCKY FLATS.

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