This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Back in 2007, when I'd just moved to Los ...

If you are a certain age, there were certain science toys you either had, or more likely wanted. A chemistry set, a microscope, a transparent human body, and (one of several nuclear toys) a cloud ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured the effect of cosmic radiation in a cold molecular cloud. The observation ...