In 2008, China needed to improve the air around Beijing before the Olympics, so they did something that was considered Draconian - they banned cars for everyone except the rich and the government. It…

While organic farmers like to claim the boom in agriculture of the last 30 years was not related to science, history says otherwise.  A pest that pre-science farming could never conquer has…

Unlike mainstream journalism, science journalism is under no expectation, feigned or real, to be objective.  Because no one reads science journalism any more.  It's therefore no surprise…

Unlike mainstream journalism, science journalism is under no expectation, feigned or real, to be objective.  Because no one reads science journalism any more.  It's therefore no surprise…

Entertainer Andy Williams died this week  following his year-long battle with bladder cancer. Over 10,000 people are diagnosed with bladder cancer every year in the UK but recent research from…

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate board directors to date, men and women directors were found to be in striking alignment on economic outlook, political and regulatory…

An Internet freedom advocacy group has rated 14 countries as "free" in a new report, with Estonia, USA and Germany leading in online freedom for citizens, while countries such as Cuba, China and Iran…

How do you turn political science, economics or surveys of college undergraduates into science?  You claim scientists are mean to people and not liberal and tolerant at all unless they agree…

How do you turn political science, economics or surveys of college undergraduates into science?  You claim scientists are mean to people and not liberal and tolerant at all unless they agree…

Elsevier has announced the launch of NeuroImage: Clinical as an open access journal.  NeuroImage: Clinical will communicate advances in the study of abnormal structure-function relationships of…

Europe isn't in this Millennium on science but they are beginning to embrace the Internet. The availability and popularity of online education in Europe is on the rise. Following the revolutionary…

Oh, for those days of 2007, when the miracle vegetable story of the week - maybe the year - was instead about the super powers of chocolate. The science underpinning those claims was sparse but the…

The more conservative a female House of Representatives lawmaker is, the more likely she is to look like a woman, according to a UCLA analysis. Heteronormative gender bias, right? Stupid GOP likes…

The anti-GMO contingent may be anti-science, and they may be overwhelmingly progressive, but what they are not - and it is refreshing - is hypocritical when it comes to criticizing their own side of…

UPDATE: what a difference a small typo makes! In the report below I claimed that the CDF top mass measurement was yet to be stripped of the record of being the most precise in the world, given that…

Children's television is 'problematic', according to a new paper in the Journal of Communication. While there is no physical bullying in these shows, what the authors consider an 'alarming'…

Here is a head scratcher; when confronted about the vague, conflicting language in Proposition 37 - even the real name, the California Right to Know Genetically Modified Food Act, is weird and…

A contest co-organized by the European Science Foundation has a cash prize sponsored by Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt (Physics, 2011) - the goal, make a better video than the EU's "It's a girl…

A contest co-organized by the European Science Foundation has a cash prize sponsored by Nobel Prize winner Brian Schmidt (Physics, 2011) - the goal, make a better video than the EU's "It's a girl…

A parasite that caused bees to lurch around like, well, zombies, and fly at night until they die has been found in Washington State.  Colony Collapse Disorder, in which all the adult honey bees…