Being on a UN committee to discuss climate change must be a lot of fun; you get to fly to exotic locations and no one ever expects you to get anything done.  I guess that applies to the UN…

There is a Chinese middle class for the first time ever and they have decided to avoid their numerous conventional food scares by opting for organic food scares. To-date, it is has been entirely…

Coming into the Democratic convention, science academia is going to be enthusiastic in its support of President Obama.  Unlike counterparts in private-sector science, academia will vote up to 85…

For every "treatment" or remediation in autism-land, there are both fervent believers and detractors. For every person helped, there's another harmed. Perhaps, just perhaps, in some cases, it's not…

Large collaborations of physicists have a consolidated habit of meeting three or four times per year for a full week of discussions and talks. This has multiple purposes, one of them being the…

Once a year someone is claiming to be on the trail of Atlantis, a science-fiction city or nation or whatever in which super-smart people from the past were somehow wiped out and took a whole lot of…

Botanical origin      :  Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal English name          :  Indian ginseng, Winter cherry Family  …

I am a lot more skeptical than most people who call themselves Skeptics; I am skeptical about more than Bigfoot and religion, I am even skeptical that (a) all Democratic politicians are pro-science…

While Californians in America are fighting for ways to send America back to the 13th century, some Canadians are embracing science and the modern world. Why? Two reasons.  First, they have…

There are few things as irritating as scientists taking complex topics and reducing them to sound bites that are invariably wrong.  They pick up the wrong data, manipulate it with a bit of…

Neil Armstrong changed the way we think of ourselves – but, oddly, not the way we think of the Moon, writes Daniel Hannan on Telegraph Blogs. But what I particularly like is the comment by one Maria…

Okay, I am coming out for the interest of Science. I read today this article, which does not really say anything new to me, but for some reason triggered my wish to speak up about the condition. The…

In last weeks post,I introduced the Axial force, a force interacting between neutrinos, left handed neutrino repel other left handed neutrino while attracting right handed anti-neutrinos or indeed…

On-Cor Frozen Foods of Geneva, Illinois has the funniest product recall you will read today. Now, product recalls are not generally humorous. As Ian Froeb at Riverfront Times rightly notes, they…

The first man to walk on the moon passed away today, a few weeks after heart surgery. He was 82.  Neil Armstrong mostly stayed out of the public spotlight - no appearance in "Transformers: Dark…

Melvin Calvin at Berkeley in 1945 showed that Chlorella could take up 14CO2 and produce 3-phosphoglycerate.  This article is for wider audience interested to know that carbon fixation cycle…

A key aspect of being human, in the literal and figurative sense, is rationality.  It separates us from our pets. Not in a good way, we are a lot less rational than other animals and we even…

Physician John Smallberries said to me, “Twenty years ago, I didn’t even know what the word autism meant. It was rare.” But since then something has shifted.  Whether it was music, vaccines,…

Do plants have muscles?  Strictly speaking, no, but time-lapse photography shows that they can be quite thuggish in behaviour. Following last year’s BBC TV series on Blooming Botany and writing…

In 1981 the philosopher Peter Singer published a book titled The Expanding Circle – Ethics, Evolution and Moral Progress. The book was inspired by EO Wilson’s Sociobiology – The New Synthesis,…