Science Blogs

A blog about mathematics by Harald A. Helfgott, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Göttingen and Senior Researcher at the CNRS, Paris.

A blog about networks, food webs, and extinction.

It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics. Not content with just singing and acting, in the following pages, she will guide you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made it possible to hear her super music in a digital format.

This is Katja Grace’s blog. It is about the idiosyncratic class of things Katja considers to be on the frontier of important and interesting. Empirically, it tends to be about human behavior, social institutions and rules, anthropic reasoning, personal experimentation and improvement, philanthropy, and the prospect of robots replacing humans. Katja is responsible for omissions as well as actions, and aspires to save the world at some point.

This blog is devoted to statistical thinking and its impact on science and everyday life. Emphasis is given to maximizing the use of information, avoiding statistical pitfalls, describing problems caused by the frequentist approach to statistical inference, describing advantages of Bayesian and likelihood methods, and discussing intended and unintended differences between statistics and data science. I'll also cover regression modeling strategies, clinical trials, and drug evaluation. By Frank Harrell.

This blog was founded by and is still hosted by the occasionally posting Pontifex Praeteritorum (who notes that his posts are is own personal opinion and in now way associated with the awesome company he now works for.)

Now it is a group blog (and unlike some other group blogs, we don’t pretend to be a single person) run by Charles Bennett (IBM) and Steve Flammia (Sydney).

An economics blog by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.

Science and technology at Scientific American.com: science news, science and technology coverage, science trivia, experts, books and more.

A blog by Robin Wilson about GIS, remote sensing, programming (Python, R), and more.

A blog about galaxies, stellar dynamics, exoplanets, and fundamental astronomy by David W. Hogg, Professor of Physics, at NYU.

A blog about quantum mechanics and related topics by Jess Riedel, a physics postdoc at the Perimeter Institute working on decoherence detection, among other things.

In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. The artifacts they came back up with included money, statues, pottery, and various other works of art and craft, as well as a curious lump of bronze and wood that turned out to be by far the most important item onboard. When an archaeologist named Valerios Stais took a look at it two years later, he noticed that the lump had a gear in it. Almost a half-century later, the science historian Derek J. de Solla Price thought this apparently mechanical object might merit further examination, and almost a quarter-century after that, he and the nuclear physicist Charalambos Karakalos published their discovery–made by using X-ray and gamma-ray images of the interior–that those divers had found a kind of ancient computer.

In an age where everything seems to have been explored and there is nothing new to be found, we celebrate a different way of looking at the world. If you're searching for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them.

Insights offers World Resource Institute experts’ timely analysis and commentary on crucial issues at the nexus of environment and human development.

The work could lead to a new approach to the study of what is possible, and how it follows from what already exists.

A lot of science starts -- and is tested -- in the field. The Field blog is where scientists share their adventures in field research -- wherever it takes them. A group blog hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.

A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 put central and southern California underwater for up to six months, and it could happen again.

A blog on space mining, space settlement, and space science by planetary physicist Dr. Philip Metzger. Dr. Philip Metzger is a planetary physicist who recently retired from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where he co-founded the KSC Swamp Works. He now is at the University of Central Florida — but still a part of the Swamp Works team — performing research related to solar system exploration.

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.