Created in a Bose Einstein Condensate, sound may enter these acoustic black holes but it may not leave.  This creates an system we can experiment with on a table top level and learn about black…

The likes of Snoop Doggy Dawg are joining the ubiquitous periodic table. Super-heavy element 112 is poised to join the ranks more than a decade after its discovery by German scientists.…

You age. As you age, your cells age. Your telomeres wear out. Even single-celled yeast age, giving birth to only a limited number of daughter cells. So how is it that each new generation starts fresh…

    Early science decided on the topology of matter as a system of atoms, durable units of mass.   The development of the full periodic table of elements gave each one a…

I'm mixing my movie references with the headline, perhaps, but it's honestly the first thing that popped into my head when I read about a worm helping scientists understand longevity.…

I've often talked about how amateurs still can make contributions in modern astronomy, making us unique among the sciences.  Well, 14-year old Caroline Moore became the youngest person to…

"It is incredible how technology changes our lives. I, for example, was not used to swear." (Teo Guadalupi)

It's No Soap - Laundry Saves Lives On January 7th 2007, at Sizewell A power station on England's Suffolk coast, an environmental disaster was narrowly averted when a worker visiting the laundry…

John Levine notes that using secure branding can be an effective way to combat phishing. “Secure“ branding, in this sense, means using trusted authorities to verify the credentials of a web site or…

The second World Science Festival kicked off at Lincoln Center in New York City last evening with a birthday tribute to Edward O. Wilson, everyone's favorite ant man, and science fans fron the…

Space explorers have found another mystery. The Shrinking Betelgeuse! This red supergiant in the constellation of Orion appears as a bright star to the naked eye observer. It has been found to be…

I'm on the road, so here are two (dueling?) quotes to make up for the hit-or-miss blogging:  God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world. …

Meganonsense Alert!There is no consensus amongst linguists as to exactly what constitutes a word.  How do you count words?  What counts as a word?  Do 'run', 'running', 'ran' count as…

Obsessive-Compulsive Language Disorder If you have never heard of Obsessive-Compulsive Language Disorder, don't worry.  I just invented the expression to get your attention. In my article We…

During my essentially casual research of the native cultures that settled the Southwestern U.S., I repeatedly come across both archaeological and anthropological references to the concept of oneness…

Some enterprising scientists at NOAA have studied the health of animals suffering from bacterial infections by studying shrimp running on a treadmill. I don't think this is recent news, but I just…

Struggling to find a publisher for your brilliant and genre-shifting novel? You could go the way of Andrew Bodnar, former Bristol-Myers Squibb senior exec VP. In 2006 BMS tried to delay generic…

A study involving giggling babies proves a closer connection between the primates. The study published in the journal, Current Biology, measured the giggling sounds of human infants and…

Word Salad And Rules Of Conformity The conversation-capable computer has often been said to be just around the corner.  All too often, what is found around the corner is  an impenetrable…

Looking for a great summer destination? Why not make a trip to the Saanich Peninsula, the cycling capital of Canada. Sooke, a small fishing town on Vancouver Islands' southwestern edge, was…