I'm pretty confident the world is not going to end because a bunch of people who couldn't even keep Spaniards - SPANIARDS - from taking over their country were too lazy to make a new calendar. NASA…

I'm pretty confident the world is not going to end because a bunch of people who couldn't even keep Spaniards - SPANIARDS - from taking over their country were too lazy to make a new calendar. NASA…

A new paper says that altered gut microbiota in humans is associated with symptomatic atherosclerosis and stroke.  The human body contains ten times more bacterial cells than human cells, most…

In America, human women wake up every day and decide whether they want to have sex or not.  They know somewhere a man is willing to make that happen. In bushcrickets, the male is in charge.…

Higher rates of schizophrenia are found in urban areas and it can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighborhood, says a new…

Nuclear power is not mired in regulatory uncertainty because the science is unsettled, the overwhelming majority of scientists accept physics and the really overwhelming consensus of nuclear…

Accountability plays a very important role in the realization of educational aims, goals, and objectives. Thus recognizing the “Who is/are” in its formation and/or its implementation is important.…

I hereby announce (create) a truly "next level" and I am sure inspiring challenge to all serious scientific philosophical thinkers who from their heart desire to participate in an honest, advanced…

UPDATE: for more on this, I only now realize that my friend at Resonaances had written about it yesterday... It is nice to see that he agrees with my conclusions, anyway. Also Peter has news on it,…

Dogs can sniff out Clostridium difficile, the infective agent that is responsible for many of the dreaded "hospital acquired infections", in stool samples and even in the air surrounding patients in…

Opinions of the tooth fairy as kind and giving may need to be revised following "mounting reports of less child-friendly activity", according to a paper published in the BMJ's Christmas edition which…

Our immune system does not shut down with age, says a new study published in PLOS Pathogens today. T cells can respond to virus infections in an older person with the same vigor as T cells from a…

Current global conditions provide numerous challenges for future generations. The United States has a mind-boggling federal deficit. Developing countries have rapid population growth that will lead…

“Personalized medicine! What is that?” Your question is justified.  It was also something that Terry Procter from Peterborough, Ontario thought when he was sent a questionnaire for his opinion…

If you are an organic food or paleo diet lover and think it means your gut microbiome resembles your ancestors in any way, you are wrong.  We aren't even close to 100 years ago much less ancient…

Science can make better corn and, well, better everything - except perhaps the Christmas tree. The genome of conifers like spruce, pine and fir has remained pretty much the same for the last 100…

A NASA photo error showed just how many sheep in science media are blindly regurgitating anything about space they read.   NASA got a snapshot from Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko on the…

A NASA photo error showed just how many sheep in science media are blindly regurgitating anything about space they read.   NASA got a snapshot from Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko on the…

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is using X-rays to measure, in atomic detail, a key process at work in extreme plasmas like those found in stars,…

Wilms' tumors, a type of cancer typically found in the kidneys of young children, might have a new weapon against them. A new therapeutic approach that one day might be used to treat some of the more…