Two separate carbon-dating tests have confirmed the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It had been mistakenly cataloged a century ago as dating from the…

Researchers behind a new paper say women's brains appear to be hard-wired to respond to the cries of a hungry infant. They asked men and women to let their minds wander, then played a recording of…

Mouse studies have determined that a small molecule called natriuretic polypeptide b (Nppb) released in the spinal cord triggers a process that is later experienced in the brain as the sensation of…

Young entrepreneurs tackling hard problems and billion dollar markets took top prizes at the First Look West (FLoW) regional finals competition with technologies that recover waste energy…

Increasingly one can't help but notice the tone of many of today's hot button science topics have decidedly left the realm of science and become firmly entrenched in advocacy.  My choice of…

Gerald Warner Blows Wind Gerald Warner is not a scientist: he is a polemicist.  A very good polemicist, if that means someone who knows how to make good use of the diatribe dictionary.  If…

Scientists have a new theory as to why a woman’s fertility declines after her mid-30s: As women age, their egg cells become riddled with DNA damage and die off because their DNA repair systems…

Researchers have reversed behavioral and brain abnormalities in adult mice that resemble schizophrenia by restoring normal expression to a suspect gene, Neuregulin 1, that is over-expressed in humans…

When a magnet is divided, a new magnet with north and south poles is always created. A monopole, i.e. a north pole without a south pole or a south pole without a north pole has not yet been…

Can climate change be mitigated without hurting the quality of life of people?  Food and basic necessities are met before culture and other aspects. Thinking among environmentalists is that if…

If Martians wanted to vacation some place exotic, they might pick the Redwood forests of the Pacific, yet if they wanted to feel like they were at home, but with better hotels, a researcher has…

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 1 grant proposal for $149,900 to study the differential data from retrofitting a concentrated solar…

You’ve probably heard of the uproar that has recently been caused by a bill introduced by Texas Representative Lamar Smith, the chair of the US House of Representatives’ Science Committee. Lawrence…

Architectural Folly And Trumpery In 1984 Prince Charles provoked controversy when he called a proposed extension to London's National Gallery a "monstrous carbuncle". What is good and what is bad…

If you want to have a good time, visit Spain.  It isn't just the tapas. They have bars. A lot of them.  The average is one bar for every 132 residents. For comparison, the US state…

Some groups insist that eating meat is bad for the environment. They even invented a bogus metric, it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef, to show the environmental harm of not being a…

It's not easy traveling to play 81 games a year across multiple time zones and the major league baseball schedule, 162 games, is the most grueling in professional sports. Two papers outline how sleep…

If you live in an arid region, you know keeping it green is an environmentally stressful activity. But some arid regions have been getting greener on their own and scientists have long suspected that…

How can paying less for energy cost more? When activists advocating their technology start doing math. The EU paid 406 billion Euros for oil and gas imports in 2012 (1.1 billion Euros per day), 3.2%…

[The title of this article comes from a T-shirt with ten advices on what to do when everything else fails] It has always surprised me to realize how confident we physicists are of the good faith of…