Natural emissions and man-made pollutants have an unexpected effect; they make clouds brighter and have a cooling effect on the world's climate. A quick primer: Clouds are made of water droplets,…

Researchers were able to controll seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells into the hippocampus, which inhibit signaling in overactive…

The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals Part 3 The Age of Electrophysiology “The history of electrophysiology has been decided by the history of electrical recording instruments”Edgar Douglas…

Neil Armstrong's Heartbeat - EKG Up For Auction[edit]This article has been updated - please see:One Small Step - Two Small Strips ( Or Maybe Three ) RR Auction of Amherst New Hampshire has announced…

Mammals have the ability to adapt to a range of the temperature. While physiological homeostasis has a lot to do with this, part of the reason why mammals can adapt to cold temperatures is the…

Social and evolutionary psychology studies get a large share of media attention despite being primarily based on surveys of psychology undergraduate students. It was only a matter of time before…

Since marijuana is fast becoming legal again in America, it seems strange to be calling cigarettes a 'gateway' to it, but anti-smoking campaigns are almost as large a business as tobacco and so…

How To Build A Perpetual Magnet Woo Generator     "The general public sees perpetual motion inexactly. Probably they view each machine as a special case. The physicist or engineer, on…

The thousands of clueless hippies who hijacked the Cheerios Facebook page to demand that General Mills get behind putting GMO warning labels on food are disappointed the company isn't convinced any…

The thousands of clueless hippies who hijacked the Cheerios Facebook page to demand that General Mills get behind putting GMO warning labels on food are disappointed the company isn't convinced any…

The Whale, The Torpedo And Cruelty To Animals,a brief history of the use of electricity in medicine and the development of the pacemaker. Part 2: The Age Of The ElectriciansPart 1, was about early…

Is a David and Goliath battle brewing in commercial squid fishery, with larger purse seiners robbing "scoop" fishermen of their livelihoods, sometimes illegally? That is what Virginia Hennessey wrote…

Readers of this blog know very well by now that, despite (or is it because of?) being both a scientist and a philosopher, I have often defended the idea that science and philosophy are distinct…

In light of some recent posts that have introduced an increasingly diverse set of viewpoint through music links, I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of music surfaces.  So, I don…

A paper in Food and Chemical Toxicology, published in Elsevier, claiming that Bacillus thuringiensis showed toxic effects in the blood of Swiss albino mice has been withdrawn. Citation: Mezzomo BP,…

A paper in Food and Chemical Toxicology, published in Elsevier, claiming that Bacillus thuringiensis showed toxic effects in the blood of Swiss albino mice has been withdrawn. Citation: Mezzomo BP,…

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is distancing itself from the the American Psychiatric Association and its upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). While…

In the UK, health care is nationalized but a trial lawyer for maternity cases says that has made money a bigger concern in deciding who gets quality medical care.  A report by The Royal College…

The Groningen Protocol, introduced in Holland in 2005, was devised to create a standard for doctors who had families that wanted to end the suffering of sick newborns for humanitarian reasons. It…

Is Google On The Level? I have often complained about the way that Google search behaves.  For instance, try looking up the capacitance of a lead-acid battery.  Good luck with that - Google…