It has taken 19.5 years to Italy to sanate a wound to its democratic fabric, one which made the country look like a sort of Banana republic, where a tycoon could acquire consensus through his…

Google money magic can only take you so far with the federal government.  23andMe, the highest profile genetic testing company, co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin…

Classical gravity is not good enough.  As a first step, one must think about groups since that is the foundation of the Standard Model of physics. All my failed efforts to think about gravity…

The top quark is the most massive elementary particle that we have so far discovered at particle accelerators. One usually describes this by saying that the top mass is about 185 times larger than…

Americans have had it good. Drug companies have consistently produced new products that have done terrific things, but they are hated by much of the public, to such an extent that marijuana advocates…

If biology fear mongers can't get referendums (let's vote on science!) passed in states like California and Washington where, let's face it, evidence-based thinking about science left long ago, what…

Throughout the 1990s, environmentalists insisted that ethanol was the wave of our energy future. Vice-President Al Gore even famously broke a tie in the Senate to allow the Environmental Protection…

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "The Physiology of Taste" The next time you sit down to eat; you may look at your food differently. Freshly squeezed…

In the first decade of the 21st century, blogging really took off. In America, it was embraced by the technologically progressive left and therefore immediately exploited as a marketing tool against…

You might be surprised to know that there are quite a few places we might be able to go to find present day life or evidence of the evolution of life. It would be easy to miss it, because we have…

"This time we're shooting through a brick!" Larry Nodulman (during a discussion on the reconstruction of electrons in the CDF II detector, just refurbished with a new set of silicon microstrip layers…

To readers of Science 2.0, Pope Urban VIII is almost exclusively known for having summoned Galileo to Rome in 1633 and forcing him to recant his work.  However, from what I watched on TV last…

A 1.1 metric Ton satellite will re-enter the earth's atmosphere in the next 48 hours, fragmenting into smaller pieces as it falls. The exact location of the fall is unknown, so you better watch out..…

It can explain ANYTHING, which means it explains nothing. Discovery, naturally, happily gives up on science: Yoga Changes Gene Expression, Improves Immunity http://news.discovery.com…

Many doctors agree that abnormally high level of cholesterol in the blood can lead to hypertension and/or heart problems (MNT, 2013). Doctors often advise their patients to reduce the level of…

Dengue fever is the most common vector-borne disease in the world, the World Health Organization estimates that 2.5 billion people at risk and that up to 390 million people are infected with the…

Top scientists met at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, this past weekend, in the first of a series of face to face meetings which will help determine the course of particle physics in the…

Today is Reformation Day, which until recently (so I have heard) was a national holiday in Germany, but the government decided that the Germans were getting too many holidays, and took it out of the…

"In God we trust, all others bring data" William Edwards Deming

I won't bore you with an introduction but I'll just say "Ghostbusters" is one of the funniest movies of all time. So I decided to live blog it, but just the science parts. Let me know how I did.…