My commentaries in Forbes tend to focus on weather, climate, and broadly related science. I am a scientist and educator not a journalist so my perspectives are often motivated by certain angles that I ...

Rainbows are optical phenomena resulting from the interaction of sunlight, water droplets, and the human visual system, not physical objects. Scientific understanding of rainbows developed over ...

Chemists have now come up with a way to make molecules known as acenes more stable, allowing them to synthesize acenes of varying lengths. Using their new approach, they were able to build molecules ...

Dr. Mark Lindsay was 5 years old when he first learned that tree trunks were brown. "Up until that point, I believed leaves and trunks were all green. Just lighter and darker shades," Mark said. Mark ...