Colin Schultz

Colin Schultz

 

Colin Schultz is a freelance science writer and editor based in Toronto, Canada. He blogs for Smart News and contributes to the American Geophysical Union. He has a B.Sc. in physical science and philosophy, and a M.A. in journalism.

What "Peak Beard" Says About Human Sexual Selection

Being sexy means standing out

You're next.

This Poor Chicken Got Eaten by a Cow

Herbivores don't always stick to their diet

This Adorable Robot Is Like a Roomba That Prints Documents

Rather than feed the paper through the printer, why not just put the printer on wheels?

Sequential shots showing a 2010 lunar eclipse.

In the Western Hemisphere? Get Set for Tonight's Total Lunar Eclipse

Tonight's eclipse is the first of a rare spurt of lunar eclipses for the western hemisphere

On some level, babies remember the things you do to them.

We Remember People We Met as Babies, Even If We Don't Remember Being Babies

Babies can subconsciously remember people they've met, even if they don't remember meeting them

An asylum in Jacksonville, Illinois, c. 1890-1901.

In the U.S., Mentally Ill People Are Ten Times More Likely To Be in Prison Than in a Hospital

The number of mentally ill people in prison is going up, and the number in hospitals is going down

Organic chicken feed.

Walmart's About to Do for Organic Food What It Did for Every Other Consumer Product

Walmart's going to give organic food a big push

Troops in Crimea.

U.N.: Kidnappings, Torture, Propaganda Preceded Crimea's Secession Vote

The conditions around Crimea's secession vote were not clean, says a draft U.N. report

The papyrus is just a few inches wide.

The "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" Is Most Likely Not a Modern Fake

Chemical analyses show the text was written thousands of years ago

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide as reconstructed for the past 800,000 years.

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Is Now at Its Highest Point in Human Existence

The air hasn't been so full of carbon dioxide in, at least, the past 800,000 years

Scientists Convince a Mouse's Organ to Roll Back Its Own Aging

By triggering the expression of a specific gene, the mouse's thymus reversed its aging

George W. Bush's self portrait.

How to Get a Solo Show as an Amateur Artist: First, Serve Two Terms As President...

President George W. Bush's portraits of world leaders appear to be copied off photos available on the internet

The Midwest aglow with a visualization of photosynthetic fluorescence.

Under the Summer Sun, the Corn Belt Is the Most Biologically Productive Place on Earth

During the peak growing season, the corn belt outproduces the Amazon

"Hey Neil I found something!" - Buzz Aldrin, maybe.

The First Meal Eaten on the Moon Was Bacon

Bacon has a long history in the American space program

The "Tibetan Book of Buddhist Proportions" Show Exactly How to Draw the Buddha

Representations of the Buddha are highly particular

Anti-government protests in Maidan Square, Kiev, earlier in the year.

After Crimea, Donetsk May Be the Next Region to Leave Ukraine

Pro-Russian protesters took control of government buildings in three Ukrainian provinces over the weekend

Panicum miliaceum, or broomcorn millet.

Ancient Wandering Shepherds Spread Crops Across Eurasia

The nomadic shepherds of central Asia joined east and west

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This Skydiver Was Almost Hit by a Meteorite in Mid-Air

No one's ever filmed a meteorite in dark flight

Enceladus as seen by Cassini.

Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake

New proof that Enceladus is a watery world

Computers Are Learning How To Teach Each Other New Skills

Why would you teach a computer how to teach other computers how to murder more efficiently?

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