Bob Grant From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master ...

From sunspots to black holes, planets around other stars, supernovae and dark matter, Postcards from the Edge of the Universe unveils the mysteries of today's research, looking at cutting-edge ...

I have a rather big announcement to make: the Bad Astronomy Blog is moving to Slate magazine on November 12! I’ve been writing at Discover Magazine for over four years, and it’s been a great ride.

I was reading a recent entry at Astronomy Blog about what happens to a grape when held up to the eyepiece of a solar telescope, and it reminded me of grad school. We had a lab where students tracked ...