Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

Arcane Radio is a program focused mainly on the paranormal, but I'll happily go anywhere to talk about the discoveries and mysteries of ...

A new species of whale has been discovered based on a body, 7.3m long, that floated ashore on the Pribilof Islands.  This is just marvelous...

But is it in time? The U.S. and Mexican governments have agreed to permanently ban gillnetting throughout the range of the world's sm...

How many kinds of sharks inhabit the oceans? When I was reading everything I could find about nature as a kid in the 1970s, I remember seei...

And so we look back 47 years and marvel at Apollo 11 . The courage, the ingenuity, the engineering and organizational genius that was Apoll...

Geoff Robertson's great version of John Stewart's Armstrong . Stewart, one of America's great songwriters. has explained that he...

47 years ago today, my father rented a small plane from the Piper Aircraft plant where he worked and flew my brother and I north to Cape Can...

In honor of the Juno probe, here's Cheryl Wheeler's wonderful song  Orbiting Jupiter .

Two more hours until Juno hits or misses... I only have one line in this article, but I've never been in Scientific American before...

I often celebrate new species in this blog. But there are some species we look at and say, "OK, I 'm sure it fills some niche in na...

I have the latest Dunkleosteus model on the market, and it's pretty amazing visually, even if the science causes a bit of head-scratchin...

Sometimes it seems that news related to animal conservation and zoology in general is all or mostly bad, whether concerning the disappearanc...

There are few animals more interesting than bears. I've written several times before about them, but I can never resist coming back and ...

It looks like "Finding Dory" is a whale of a hit.  Great news for a warm, funny family film, not so good for the real fish.  Conse...

OK, I finished my first read of MEG: Nightstalkers .   Alten's latest is full of creature action, indeed a little overstuffed, and th...

(by Matt Bille with help from Dr. Darren Naish and Richard Ellis) From Shadows of Existence , 2006, Hancock House Unusual cetaceans are ...

Beyond the Ice Limit Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, 2016, 384pp. I love the science-heavy thrillers of Dou...

I'm not a medical researcher. I'm not a doctor. But I'm a parent (both now in college) and I can read. So can we all, but someti...

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” If this isn’t the most-quoted maxim in cryptozoology, I don’t know what is.  But let’s ...