At some point everyone has heard the question: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg.".  What is surprising about this question is that it can still produce any debate. It is surprisingly…

British archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling complex - the size of a football field - near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham. The structure, thought to be…

British archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling complex - the size of a football field - near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham. The structure, thought to be…

Want a job with terrible pay, long hours and in which you’ll never have time to read books, and when you talk about them, you’ll mostly be using made-up words like “deterritorialization” and…

Want a job with terrible pay, long hours and in which you’ll never have time to read books, and when you talk about them, you’ll mostly be using made-up words like “deterritorialization” and…

Animal and dairy scientists  presenting at the Lactation Biology Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona have discovered that drinking milk at an early age can help mammals throughout their lives.…

The 2011 5.6-magnitude quake in Oklahoma was probably caused when oil drilling waste was pushed deep underground, says a team of federally-funded scientists. That assessment was in contrast to…

The 2011 5.6-magnitude quake in Oklahoma was probably caused when oil drilling waste was pushed deep underground, says a team of federally-funded scientists. That assessment was in contrast to…

In order to clear any doubts regarding the comparative growth rates of the whiskers of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), researchers at the Institute of…

In my previous blog post, Build a Simple Tone Generator with the 555 Timer IC, I successfully demonstrated how to build a simple tone generator, but when I tried to demonstrate how to build a…

Health plans that offer low premiums and high deductibles believe that patients with deductibles of $1,000 or more for individual coverage (or twice that for family coverage) will shop around for the…

For an administration that promised to 'restore science to its rightful place' and that is run by a man who calls himself 'scientist in chief' there is sure a lot of anti-science activity going on. I…

If there is a contentious and politicized branch of science today it is climate science. Either it's global warming, or global cooling, but we have settled on climate change, just in case it goes in…

A model based on global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 has caused a research team to predict the opposite of what Doomsday Prophets of the 1960s and beyond insisted would happen…

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago. SN…

If objects from space kindled life on Earth, how did it happen? The terrestrial or extra-terrestrial case for important ingredients that led to the building blocks of life is a hot debate. A new…

Building on work done by Dominic ffytche et al in 2000, which delineates more than a dozen types of hallucinations, particularly in relation to people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (a condition that…

The T2K Collaboration released today an analysis of their data in the Cornell Arxiv. T2K searches for electron neutrinos appearing in a muon neutrino beam produced by the J-PARC accelerator facility…

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has found is that there are interesting features in the cosmic ray background which could indicate dark matter particle anti particle annihilations.  That is…

Bodily fluids contain lots of information about the health of people, that is why medical doctors routinely have blood and urine analyzed. But bodily fluids can do more than mark infectious diseases…