The SM neutrino hierarchies are special   There is a noticeable difference between neutrino mixing angle hierarchy and the mass hierarchies of all three types of SM…

Yes you too can be a college professor just as long as you let go of the archaic idea that the only legitimate way to be a professor is to be tenured and have no other enterprises or income. …

Twelve years ago, the inventors of the process that would lead to Fairlife milk engineered a process to "separate milk into its five key components – water, butterfat, protein, vitamins and minerals…

This morning, in that !terrible! right-wing rag, the Daily Mail, I was intrigued to read this: How Hawaii and Iceland were born: Stunning 'CT scans' of the Earth's interior reveal vast plumes under…

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   Besides the inevitable emotional doubts accompanying fundamental physics research, Einstein’s results (in the EPR article) are right - there is action at…

I’ll demonstrate how I built my mobile phone/iPod mount out of Lego for my Lego optics lab polariscope project. Parts needed: Mobile phone mount (from my DIY Super Selfie Stick project) 2 Lego…

An independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) is a place to safely store spent nuclear fuel while it is waiting for a geological repository to permanently dispose of the material.  The…

"Carbonated drinks linked with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin" Right away, this looks suspicious.  "Linked with" is a standard junk science term that translates roughly into:…

[Note: many of the images were upgraded to include more information about addition and multiplication, 10/25/2015] What is a quaternion? Mathematicians might claim it was the independent inventions…

Sometimes I’ll picture an idea in my head and it seems to work fine—in my head—but when I actually build it, it doesn’t turn out the way I planned. I wanted to try using a bevel gearbox as a pan…

Last week a paper in JAMA received wide attention from the media, including some decent coverage from Gina Kolata from NYT science, who wrote three separate pieces to discuss breast cancer treatment…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to be sued because they have not banned fracking. Natural Resources Defense Council and vassal fundraising groups say oil and gas companies might be…

When it comes to reviewing studies regarding combinations of low levels of chemical exposure and cancer risks, collaborators of the Halifax Project have raised questions that can help in the…

I first noticed the NuVal scores in my HyVee grocery store about four years ago. My first reaction was the same as how I feel about government: I'm in full support of universal rules for everyone...…

A decade ago, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) cared little about science. They were run by a staffer from the Democratic party who was put in the place to mobilize soft-money donations from…

Methane has 23X the short term warming impact of CO2 but, it was noted by environmentalists when they used to advocate for natural gas, methane is very short-lived and the amount released due to…

Refining oil starts with distillation Have you ever wondered why you can't just use raw crude oil in a diesel engine or why your car won't run by filling the tank with kerosene or engine oil? …

A three inch long equation (or according to Kaku one inch) is the holy grail of post modern theoretical physics.  We all want one equation from which one can derive all known physical laws. I…

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On these hot days of August one is led to remember the lyrics of Elton John's 1972 hit "Rocket Man": "and all that science I don't understand... It's just my job five days a week". Indeed, being…