Wes Phillips

If you were sending a shout out to an alien species, what would you say? Here's what Cosmic Call sent via a 70m telescope in the Ukraine. Let's hope our fellow sapient species are brighter than I am—I had to click through to the translation.

Richard Ouzounian wishes Samuel Beckett a happy centeniary. Well, if it's Beckett we're talking about, "happy" isn't precisely the word we want—and Beckett was all about le mot juste.

Prevailing wisdom held that either the Sun was just like the planets in terms of oxygen composition or that it was rich in the isotope oxygen-16. Now research on Lunar dust indicates both theories are wrong.

Huckleberry edition. Thanks for playing.

Behind the scenes at Muzak.

Terror stalks the streets of Felton.

Anybody can make humor out of a banana peel and a hapless schlub, but it take a genius of sorts to game theory funny.