Geodesy is the science of determining the earth's geometry, kinematics, gravity field, and their evolution in time.

A book supplementing intelligent design theory is now published through AuthorHouse under the pen name Allan Josephson: "Mystery, History and Future: A Parable of Objective Truth". The book offers…

We syndicate some of our articles through Blogburst and we were #64 overall last quarter and highest among science sites, so readers at Reuters, USA Today, etc. like us.

I discovered a site called Megite today that has 1 article from physorg.com, 1 from something called rebelscience.blogspot.com, 1 from Washingtonpost.com and a few others - and none from us. Ever…

Study Shows over 68% of Science Stories Have Scientific Errors How accurate is that article? I have no idea, but I am willing to believe it just like most people are willing to believe science…

Richard Feynman on Doubt [Fill in she instead of he as appropriate...] "The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance…

An "Irrational Attachment to The Theory of Evolution"? In Gail Collins' NY Times column today, she says this: Huckabee seems to be a nice guy, but conservatives are afraid he’d break up the old…

I got spammed with a 'carnival' that looks suspiciously like another self-promotion effort, namely because it's chock full of the usual suspects and a few token outside pieces from people no one…

If Intelligent Design advocates are so insistent that most of the human genome is functional, why aren't they doing any research like this? Eric Lander's group at MIT devised a way to test whether…

Tomorrow's Nature issue has an editorial (subscription only) praising the latest NAS book on evolution/creationism. The editorial goes on to suggest that: "Between now and the 200th anniversary of…

If you can get journal access, check out this editorial by creation/evolution veteran Francisco Ayala in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

There's a site called the blog readability test. It basically tells you what level of education you need to read a site and generally, it claims, how smart your readers are. This is the bad news…

Μια αλυσιδωτή κλιματική αντίδραση προκάλεσε ένα φαινόμενο του θερμοκηπίου χωρίς έλεγχο πριν 55 εκατομμύρια έτη Νέα συμπεράσματα προέκυψαν σχετικά με μια φάση ενός ταχύτατου φαινομένου του θερμοκηπίου…

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The National Academy of Sciences has revised classic book on Evolution and Creationism. (It's free online.)

How many people will get the "Science 2.Ho Ho Ho" thing in the holiday banner? Not many, because no one reads blog posts yet. But in v2 of the interface they will.

There is one weapon that I myself could never have the heart to design. A weapon that our Airforce, sadly, is trying to develope. Although it's still not even in the embryonic stage. An antimatter…

What ever happened to melee attachments on weapons? The bayonet was a good melee weapon, it actually stopped most in their tracks(when bullets didn't). Why is it barely used anymore? It did a lot…

I just saw this MIT project called Knight Science Journalism Tracker, which looks quite polished. Unfortunately the only science writing they seem to know about is on Grist and then the usual media…

The NY Times today has a profile on Shinya Yamanaka, the senior author on one of the recent papers reporting the creation of pluripotent stem cells by expressing 4 transcription factor genes in adult…