The Stories

"...creationists are committing a form of 'child abuse' when they teach creation to children."

"...the current use of "Blue Moon" to mean the second full Moon in a month can be traced to a 55-year-old mistake..."

"Reach for the Stars"

"...melted and poured to produce natural-scale lava flows.

"...not much different to the sugar we put in coffee."

"another small step is taken in extending human presence beyond Earth."

"will have profound implications..."

"Could it cause an earthquake or would you not even be able to tell?"

"Denial of evolution is unique to the United States."

“...crowd funding and the Internet in general has leveled the playing field for projects who want to gain momentum."

"The moon will miss its first son of earth"

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

"My kids were excited and terrified at the same time."

"...they are extremely rare and vulnerable to extinction."

"We didn't think we could do it."

"...in a bland atmosphere like that at Mars, they would be very obvious as opposed to an active atmosphere like Earth..."

"...we do not know what's causing them to make these antibodies."

“Space scientists may walk along here, and they’re walking exactly where this big, bungling heavy armored dinosaur walked..."

"To have so many different parts of the body showing up at this point gives us some idea that there should be more around here."

We're essentially doing the same thing any Boy or Girl Scout would do on a campout, but we're putting our stake down on Mars."

"asking all the right questions and stirring up a stagnant, unthinking and unquestioning pond in the process."

"...there appears to be the fender, possibly the wheel and possibly some portions of the strut."