Recently, the notion of "dark energy" has become well-established, suggesting that the universe is expanding ever-more-rapidly with time. Nothing about this notion makes sense, and I find myself…

The guys at RealClimate do a pretty good analysis of Past reconstructions: problems, pitfalls and progress in the context of puncturing some recent contrarian data. They leave out that this exact…

I only learned about Genome Technology Online because they linked to one of our articles, but they look pretty slick.

Franziska Michor Is the Isaac Newton of Biology. Hype? Maybe. But Tom Junod could endorse Hitler and vampire babies and I would probably agree. Plus, why don't we have any evolutionary biologists…

The White House has claimed that Bush's firm stance against embryonic stem cell research helped to stimulate the recent breakthroughs in creating pluripotent cells without destroying embryos. In an…

Niche sites spread science on the web. I'm not sure how 'niche' or 'independent' it is if it has university and NSF funding along with PLoS marketing. Clearly they're not in USA Today because they'…

You know how they say there are some metals that cant be magnetised? I believe they can, by changing the electromagnetic frequency. This could lead to bullutproof armor shielding that uses this…

I think we got the issues with the database server fixed. It appears something went horribly wrong with the search indices or the actual modules, we still don't know yet, but disabling them stopped…

This 'medical leave' is turning out to be longer than I thought. But tune in this week for more - I've got a post coming on plants that eat explosives and another on how we sequence DNA better in…

Dan Rhoads just started a site called Bitesize Bio - making cell and molecular biology make sense. Check it out.

Submissions for OpenLab 2007 can be made here. I am not sure what it is, but it's a disservice to science and web 2.0 not to include some of the terrific writing here.

I don't know anything about this Weblog awards other than to know they really messed up. I have never read Climate Audit but allegations that some vast right conspiracy ( and it's the same old…

Vote for the 'best' science blog of 2007 here. Okay, I'll admit it, I don't read any of them ( and they don't read us - most successful science sites don't read each other because we're busy, you…

Open Access to Research Funded by U.S. Is at Issue A long-simmering debate over whether the results of government-funded research should be made freely available to the public could take a big step…

An open letter to the ACS, and a response. I also had a note from a person at The Scientist asking to print my comment in the letters section. I don't think the ACS issue is going away any time…

Virtual Reality [A technology explored up...] Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one. Most current…

Oh brother. “One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’…

The Scientist.com takes on the American Chemical Society. Some of it is a little silly, discussing an anonymous email that implies the ACS hates open access and bonuses they pay executives are tied…

To day I have posted my innagural you tube video. It is the introduction to my little channel where I will produce and post some videos where I explain Quantum Mechanics to people in a simple and…

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 9: The Postdoc Has Two Faces Micella Phoenix DeWhyse United States 28 September 2007 "Although I am a huge fan of the Internets (thank you, Senator Stevens),…