Articles by Kerri Connolly

Because scientists is people, too. And sometimes people take long lunch breaks. #overlyhonestmethods

A new study from researchers in the UK suggests that the design of space around you has significant impact on how you learn. Which was totally why you ended up with that D+ in pre calculus, right?

Skyscrapers and mixed use towers aren’t anything new, though we’re constructing them bigger and higher all the time. But Peruri 88 is something else: a multi-level tower atop several other, distinct structures and units kitty-cornered below.

When we think of great scientific advancement, we usually call up a stock-image montage of great discoverers like Archimedes, Galileo, or Marie Curie, of Isaac Newton contemplating the laws of gravity, of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, and NASA sending…

Remember that time you, like, totally owned that Zizek thesis in art semiotics? Or that degree you got in post-reunification Germanic studies? Or how you were – no big deal, guys – a National Merit Finalist? Yeah, well, hate to break it to you Einste…

If you're in the SF area and would be down to party like the undead, take a night hike for stargazing, or debate the fantastic ways the world might end, then you'll be over the moon to hear that this week marks the start of the annual Bay Area Scienc…

In May of last year, an earthquake in the southeast of Spain violently shook the region. In the aftermath of the event, which registered a 5.1 on the Richter scale, nine people died and dozens of others were injured. The event caught many residents o…

Move over, McMansions. In the not-so-distant future, your studio apartment will also be your gym, your massive dining room, your home office, a yoga studio, house a guest room and function as pretty much any other kind of space you could imagine.