I've always been interested in astronomy, and at a young age I learned all about red giants, white dwarves, and black holes. I spent a lot of nights during the second semester of my freshman year in college at the telescope in the science center while I was taking a...

We had despaired of our stick bugs' ever having babies. My older son, whose science teacher had given him the three stick bugs that I described in an earlier post, had told me that one of his friend's stick bugs had had babies very soon after they were brought home...