In the popular science arena, we occasionally (and in the case of evolution vs creationism, frequently) debate just how likely it is that those who aren't trained scientists can competently evaluate…

We've never found an organic molecule (methane) in the atmosphere of a planet around a distant star before but NASA folks intend to announce next week it has been done. Should any of you desire to…

This is why politicians shouldn't choose what science projects get funded: John McCain puts his science ignorance on display by knocking a population genetic study on bears he knows nothing about.…

Odd Numbers, an excellent blog by Jubin Zelveh at Portfolio.com, recently listed a few findings from the American Time Use Survey, which is in danger of being ended. They included: - First-born…

These pictures are actually a couple months old, but I just saw them for the first time. They are pretty amazing, and even more so when you realize that no one got killed. "Etihad was to receive…

Most travelers exploring the rugged terrane of Vancouver Island are unaware of the island’s fiery history.  Like Phoenix from the Ashes, the igneous volcanic and granitic rock that would become…

At least the folks at Galactic Mu think we are, because we print a summation, New Take On Invisibility - 'Shrinking' Nanoparticles Visible Size Without Reducing Physical Dimensions, rather than just…

There's a class war brewing and it involves DNA. Only the wealthy can afford what is, now, around $350,000 for the kind of sequencing that can tell you if you have a disease-risk gene that can be…

I like to keep tracking of interesting ways people find us and I saw a Google link for us with the keywords The world's greatest scientist. And what does it link to? Yep, yours truly. That Google…

A trip along Chuckanut Drive, in northwestern Washington is a chance to view incredible diversity from sea to sky. An amazing array of plants and animals call this coastline home. For the fossil…

"Yeeeehaaaaaw" the call heard from a lucky fossil hunter working the outcrops on the west side of the lake... or just as likely the call of the wild as a kayaker hits a pocket of wind on freshwater…

If you like to try your hand at new things and have a penchant for the old or shiny.. no not your dating taste, but something earthier... you may want to consider a trip to Vermillion Bluffs near the…

Some 270 million plus years ago, had one wanted to buy waterfront property in what is now British Columbia, you’d be looking somewhere between Prince George and the Alberta border. The rest of the…

New evidence of an ancient carnivorous killer has been found in Nigeria. While evidence of 95-million year old therapods from Africa is quite scare making one think that each fragment would be…

Sometimes relationships work out well. Not talking romance here. I'm thinking of the partnership that has evolved between various species who, despite great differences, do rather well together. In…

If you were a fish living in the warm turquoise waters off the coast of Bonaire, you may not hear those words, but you'd see the shrimp sign language equivalent. It seems Periclimenes yucatanicus or…

How long have salmon been making the trek to the sea, the rivers and back again? We are all familiar with the image of salmon returning to fresh water, to the rivers of their youth, to spawn and…

Biologist Ian Musgrave take ID promoter Jonathan Wells to task for trying to argue that a recent paper on the detailed mutations that take place in bacterial evolution of antibiotic resistance has…

Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle fame is calling it a day - sort of - by ending her own column and starting a new one with another person. Good writer, good scientist, good community advocate. So go…

I just noticed there is a new Gene Genie out, hosted by Sciencebase and I am linking to it because Sciencebase does good stuff and this is not the sort of 'same old people' self-promotion we…