I suppose we all remember the big story about how rhesus monkeys kept on a highly-restrictive diet lived longer than those who were allowed to nosh at will. Turns out that this is only true if you, well, ignore the monkeys that died. The lower mortality claimed among the monkeys on the calorie restricted diet […]

DARPA’s attempt to produce a microchip-sized fusion reactor has dropped out of the budget. Chip-scale integration offers precise, micro actuators and high electric field generation at modest power levels that will enable several order of magnitude decreases in the volume needed to accelerate the ions. Furthermore, thermal isolation techniques will enable high efficiency beam to […]

Implied Spaces is now available in mass-market paperback! Y’all probably knew this already, but I didn’t. I’m just the author. And, because I haven’t nagged you for a while, I’ll mention that you can pick up a copy of This Is Not a Game at the same time.

A giant ant colony has taken over the world! The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But […]