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.

Three of Jupiter’s moons, Callisto, Io, and Europa can be seen orbiting the gas giant.

Jupiter Just Can’t Decide How Many Moons It Wants To Have

By catching or tossing comets or eating old moons, Jupiter's orbiter-count is constantly in flux

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UN Climate Talks Start Monday: Here’s Your 83-Second Primer

For the 18th consecutive year, world leaders will try to figure out what to do about climate change

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The Arctic Is Running Out of Snow Even Faster Than It’s Running Out of Ice

The Arctic is losing snow cover twice as fast as it is losing sea ice

Some people find talking to new people more stressful than others.

Giving a Good First Impression: You’re Doing It Wrong

Trying to assert your dominance is not necessarily the best way to say "Hi"

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They Celebrate American Thanksgiving in the Netherlands

From 1609 to 1620, many of the Pilgrims who came to America lived in the Netherlands

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People Have Been Using Stone-Tipped Spears For Way Longer Than We Thought

A new study adds 200,000 years to their run

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Different Wars Have Different Sounds

Changing weapons and technologies bring new sounds to the battlefield

Scanned pages from the Oculists’ coded text.

Cracking a German Secret Society’s Centuries-Old Encrypted Code

A secret society with ties to the Freemason's coded text has been cracked

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Shell Oil Has Been Selling Itself As a Protector of Nature Since the 1930s

From gateway to guardian, Shell's eco-based advertisements through the years

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This Tuesday Morning, Debris of a Dying Comet Should Produce Extremely Bright Meteors

The annual Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend

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The Life And Death of Wonder Bread

Clever advertising and technical innovations propelled Wonder Bread to the top

Invasive brown and black rats feed on the eggs of the Galapagos land iguana.

Ecuador Set To Poison Millions of Rats on Galapagos Islands

Twenty-two tons of tiny blue poison pellets will be used to try to wipe out invasive rats

Lyme disease is caused by bacteria carried by deer ticks.

Chronic Lyme Disease Is Probably Not a Real Thing

New bouts of Lyme disease stem from new infections, not relapses

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The Space Shuttle Was Almost Called ‘Pegasus’

Alternate names for the Space Shuttle that nearly were: Starlighter, Pegasus, Space Clipper

Fire-fighting boats battle the blaze at BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform.

As BP Set to Plead Guilty for 2010 Spill, Some Good News From Gulf Wildlife

BP may be about to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history

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Scientists Get The Best Look Yet at a Rogue Planet With No Star

A gas giant, drifting alone with no star to call home, was discovered 100 light-years away

A functional magnetic resonance image of a brain.

Man in a Vegetative State ‘Talks’ to His Doctors

Using "yes" or "no" questions, researchers ask a vegetative man if he is in pain

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Superstorms Can Benefit Bird-Watchers

The strong winds and wide areal extent of hurricane Sandy brought birds from all over to the northeast US

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Why Do People Hate Dissonant Music? (And What Does It Say About Those Who Don’t?)

Scientists unlock a clue as to why some musical notes make you feel so uneasy

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Report: Climate Change Threatens National Security

A new reports suggests that the U.S. military is not prepared for a world morphed by climate change

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