All of us here at the Planetary Broadcast Network offices are big fans of subatomic research. This past week has really been exciting for us—in fact, things have been developing so quickly, that we’ve put the CERN live feed up on one of the big screens in the newsroom. Two big stories that both came…

Since man’s earliest conflicts, speed on the battlefield has been valuable. Beginning with the domestication of the horse, each breakthrough in transportation technology has increased the speed with which an army could deploy its assets. In the early 20th century, aircraft took warfare to the skies, and the speed at which we could distribute troops…

“I want to be a virologist when I grow up!” is probably not what most parents hear when their children are dreaming of the future, but over the last few months the field of virology has been getting a lot of press. One thing that all of this media exposure has made clear is that…