Plants are capable of synthesizing anoverwhelming variety of low-molecular-weight organic compounds, termed“secondary metabolites”, usually with very unique and complex structures. Theyrepresent one…

Day two of Evelyn Mervine's photo meme, and today I have a picture of Ngauruhoe, New Zealand.  Ngauruhoe makes almost a perfect cone, broken only at the top by a small crater.  This photo…

News like today's new evidence for a standard model light* (~125 Gev) Higgs particle does much for theoretical physics.  In one fell swoop many theories can be ruled out.  While at…

The spin 2 story unfolds much like that for spin 1. The stories are so similar, I want to take a step back and take a big picture view. Higgs digression>QED works so darn well because Maxwell's…

Like Evelyn Mervine over at the Georneys blog, I have been neglecting this blog a little this past week (although I don't have as good an excuse as she does, I was just having fun...).  I do…

The pressure that's squeezed me for months has loosened. It had gotten progressively stronger, more forceful, wringing me exhausted even before the morning started. It's loosened, but it's not gone,…

The Humboldt squid's "invasion" of California has been a sophisticated series of move and counter-move. They're here, then they're gone; they're big, then they're small. I've explained--and Professor…

Establishment of  Green Climate Fund, which will eventually gather and disburse finance amounting to $100bn per year to help poor countries develop cleanly and adapt to climate impacts may…

You know you are culturally hip when magazines want to do their photo shoots with you in them - the poor Tea Party folks clearly have to get some representation in midtown Manhattan if they want to…

Before you get too horrified, let me clarify: they were squid babies, and the shopping cart was underwater. I learned about the discovery from NewsTalkZB, which reports that at an aquarium in…

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started work in September 2008. Here are some of the results of the LHC Run I: ________________ Search for a light Higgs boson in the radiative decays of J/psi http:/…

A new paper in the African Journal of Marine Science turned me on to the genus Lycoteuthis, an open-ocean squid just bristling with light organs. According to Vecchione and Young: Presumably they…

Here at Science 2.0, but also elsewhere, a tsunami of articles on the speeding neutrino issue continues to scream for your attention. Their titles often promise a lot of spectacle, yet the truth of…

I'm a professor here at UC Davis.About 3 weeks ago, students on our campus were holding an Occupy protest. They were behaving peacefully and the situation seemed quite stable. After only 1 day of…

http://kipcurriercopyright.blogspot.com/2009/07/federal-research-public-... Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly via Library Journal; Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Reintroduced in…

Imagine a world where Discover, Nature Networks, Science 2.0, Scienceblogs, Discovery and all the others worked together.   Yes, yes, I know we all do on occasion, but those times are based on…

`http://www.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=en&q=Brooke%20Magnanti&oe… http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/16/sex.blogger.identity/index.h…

Bad news for bloggers; the courts love to protect journalists, even those shysters who use 'anonymous' sources that have directly led to the rash of modern journalists inventing even Pulitzer Prize…

More than a year ago, after yet another horrifying story about a parent killing her autistic child, I wrote a post on how scientific research shows that filicide is almost always…

Climate change experts come in all shapes and colors. The Earth system is very complex and the climate on this planet is influences and can be understood from various perspectives. To get the whole…