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Here's Looking at You

Allen E. Rhodes

This io moth (Automeris io), which has a wing span of 5 cm (about 2 inches), was resting on a window screen of a building on a ranch in northeast La Salle County, Texas. More.

Forrest Mims' World of Science
by Forrest M. Mims III

Editorial: Citizen Science and the Law
by Forrest M. Mims III

Wanderings with Ralph Coppola

Backscatter. Views and responses from TCS readers.

Eye on the Sky: The July Sky by Paul Curtin

Classics: "The Amateur Scientist Classics" A Primer on Soap Bubbles
Shawn Carlson

The Acoustic Laser

John W. Dooley, Physics Department
Millersville University

Earlier this winter I took two physics students to Pennsylvania State University for a work shop on building an acoustic laser. Both students came home with a working acoustic laser. More

NASA's Rover Captures a Martian Sunset

NASA's Deep Impact Mission Takes Aim at Comet Tempel 1 on the Fourth of July

Albert Einstein and Amateur Science

Sideways Gravity in the Basement: Norman Scheinberg's Cavendish Experiment

John W. Dooley,

Physics Department, Millersville University

Norman Scheinberg is a professor of electrical engin- eering at The City College of the City University of New York. He built a Foucault pendulum in his basement just to see if he could get it to work. More

Inverted Music

Ron Leemhuis, M.D.

Like many other amateur science enthusiasts, I like to play music. The other day I was playing my French horn with others in our local community band. As we encountered a new piece, the director made the offhand comment that the melody line, though unfamiliar to us, was an "inversion" of a well known melody. That led me to think about just what he meant. And one thing led to another. More

Four Degrees of Separation: Research on the Science of Networks

Reginald Smith

As an amateur scientist, I believe many times we in the amateur science community sell ourselves short. We believe that the only research we can hope to accomplish is the fun and curious. More

Response to "Questions and Answers about Climate Change" by Forrest M. Mims III

Kevin T. Kilty

"What is going on here?" asks Forrest Mims (Editorial, TCS, 11 March 2005). Why do countless web sites all appear to present unbalanced views of climate change?". More.
Updated 1 July 2005
 
 

In 1992 and 1994 two discoveries were made that have had a major impact on the scientific community. These finds, the Schaefer and Hebior mammoths, were discovered and excavated in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, through the efforts and skills of a number of individuals. More.
   
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