Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

As someone of Danish ancestry (there is still a Bille family castle), I keep an eye on science stories out of my little homeland.  This was ...

Well, here we are. My horror novel, The Dolmen, is selling decently and getting great reviews, and there are good prices on my books on spac...

The Little Lander That Could is in deep sleep mode on its cometary home on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko half a billion kilometers from Earth.  ...

The Walking Whales by J.G.M. "Hans" Thewissen University of California Press 256pp. (Hardcover) I've read a lot of go...

...and they are breathing again in the European Space Agency's operations center! The little Philae lander (100kg, 21kg of which is in...

Aficionados of extinct animals are sorry we just missed (or hunted to extinction) beasts like the woolly mammoth, the mastodon, and the wool...

The Explorers (written on the occasion of the loss of SpaceShipTwo) The souls departing Earthbound life Rise to heaven’s plane Soldier...

We've had the second bad day in a week for a privately built space vehicle, and this one has cost us a brave and skilled man .  Michael...

The Antares rocket that failed the other night has been subject to a lot of misreporting.  One repeated claim on CNN was that there was ...

How big can jointed-legged animals (arthropods) get? Well, the answer (at least the answer for land animals) is all over the internet, and i...

My first novel, The Dolmen , will be out on October 15 from Wolfsinger Publications as an ebook, available in paperback by October 24.  This...

Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor Eamon Dol...

Eve J.M. Bailey self-published (CreateSpace) 2012 I used to be able to keep up with all the cryptozoology novels: in the indie age, I c...

Whale taxonomy - and taxonomy in general - is still not as precise as scientists would like. Some scientists suggest species in general are ...

Dreams of Other Worlds (Amazon link) Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration   By Chris Impey...

No one has seen a Machu Picchu arboreal chinchilla rat ( Cuscomys oblativa ) alive.  It was known only from Incan-era skulls and was consid...

This time, I'll just let the picture tell the story.  This is  Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen from 29 kilometers by ESA's...

Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea Helen M. Rozwadowski. Belknap (Harvard University Press), 2005. ...

That's the title of a children's book that got me interested in rocketry a long time back (as Ishmael says, "never mind how lo...

Over the long and perilous history of Arctic exploration, there have been many tragedies and many disappearances. For example, the great Roa...