If you had talked to me this morning, you would have seen that I was mad. I hate cancer. I hate what it does to the body. I hate what it does to the mind. I hate that it tries to distract us from what is real, and important, and good in this world....

What do you see in this image?  Last weekend, readers of this blog theorized about the image to the left, and came up with some beautiful ideas.  An intergalactic butterfly, a space angel, two black holes meeting, looking through the tail of a comet,...

That’s right — the image I posted last time really is called the butterfly nebula!  I love that so many of you coined the term as well, and that you had so many great ideas — you all have beautiful minds. Scientists in Baltimore and around the...

Happy Thanksgiving!  I have a quick question for you guys, lurkers and commenters alike.  Could you please leave me a comment and tell me what this is?  I’d really appreciate y’all even clicking through from Facebook or your reader to do this — I...

Have you heard about Hope4Peyton? Peyton is a little girl in Atlanta who has fought the same disease we do — cancer — but at a much, much earlier age. Peyton was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at age 3, and her mama chronicled the...