Science Saturday

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So the faster-than-light neutrinos story? There’s some questions. And that’s good, because that’s how science works. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Turning brain waves into videos.

Some recent breakthroughs in skin technology.

How math whizzes helped sink the economy.

A lock of hair collected a hundred years ago has yielded the first genome of an Australian Aborigine. Why is that important? Because it looks like they’re direct descendants of the first modern humans to leave Africa.

Brian Spears's first collection of poetry, A Witness in Exile, is now available through Louisiana Literature Press, and at his personal website. He is the Poetry Editor for The Rumpus, and teaches poetry at Drake University. More from this author →