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Rev. Steven McKeown's paper defending use of state money to help restore Bald Knob Cross

Citing North American history dating to Christopher Columbus' 1492 venture to the New World, Bald Knob Cross board president Rev. Steven McKeown released a paper documenting his belief that state funds used in the monument's renovation don't violate church-state separation statutes. Click to read the full writing.

X-Ray Jets

(PhysOrg.com) -- The supermassive black holes that lie at the centers of galaxies can spawn tremendous bipolar jets of atomic particles.

News : Feature

By Signe Brewster Wednesday, September 1, 2010 10:00 p.m. Updated Thursday, September 2, 2010 5:08:40 p.m. In the early morning hours of Aug. 24, 1970, a mysterious van parked unnoticed outside Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Free Collaborative Learning Tools for Science—Spotlight on Scitable

As Scott Merrill wrote on CrunchGear, "Social networks are a dime a dozen." He pointed out that many fail and many are just for specific niche audiences (though I don't think niches are a bad thing). So, he was as skeptical as I was about Scitable, a social network for science research and education from Nature Publishing Group, publishers of Nature and Scientific American. I was especially ...

IceCube Neutrino Observatory Nears Completion

In December 2010, IceCube -- the world's first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, located beneath the Antarctic ice -- will finally be completed after two decades of planning. In an article in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, Francis Halzen, the principal investigator of the IceCube project, and his colleague Spencer Klein of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory provide a ...