The Society for Neuroscience recently hosted a webinar for all of its members on the topic of the budget sequestration event that will happen next year without some kind of positive action by…

The Gallic War showed Julius Caesar as a great military leader, proof that even 2070 years ago politicians who get stuff done got farther ahead than politicians people simply liked. It is also the…

Is your decision-making suspect?  Do you continually date strippers or bad boys who are 'getting their band together' and wish you could instead replace your own judgment with a prosthesis?…

Variation in facial shape is an easy way to explain phenotypes in humans to people who don't understand biology all that well. Monozygotic twins have almost identical faces and siblings usually have…

Beef Products Inc.(BPI) has had enough, it seems.  A lawsuit filed in a South Dakota state court  goes after ABC News, Inc. for defamation over its"pink slime" coverage, claiming the…

Beef Products Inc.(BPI) has had enough, it seems.  A lawsuit filed in a South Dakota state court  goes after ABC News, Inc. for defamation over its"pink slime" coverage, claiming the…

In a recent ScienceDebate questionnaire response, speechwriters for Candidate Mitt Romney tried to distinguish themselves from speechwriters for President Obama on education(1), and then proceeded to…

Did you know evolution was 'in crisis?' Neither did I, but Jason Rosenhouse at Scienceblogs is on the case, this time debunking a somewhat sing-songy phrase by philosopher of science John Dupre. Now,…

Did you know evolution was 'in crisis?' Neither did I, but Jason Rosenhouse at Scienceblogs is on the case, this time debunking a somewhat sing-songy phrase by philosopher of science John Dupre. Now,…

Here is a diet plan that requires no special meal purchases or even exercise, it just requires a willingness to believe that correlation-causation arrows fly backwards.  People, especially women…

The idea that we are inside a simulation is true anyway (if we define “simulation” as being described as emergent from a computational substrate). Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University’s…

What would the world look like with 7 billion people and no way to scientifically have created better ways of producing food?   A lot of poor vegetarians, that's what.  And only rich people…

The publication of the complete human genome sequence in 2007 made the genetic code readily accessible to researchers and served as a platform for the countless advances in science,medicine, and…

Cameron English at PolicyMic.com has a review of Science Left Behind up. In the debate over who is the biggest group of anti-science hacks, I'm happy to call the contest a draw. Whether we frame the…

Cameron English at PolicyMic.com has a review of Science Left Behind up. In the debate over who is the biggest group of anti-science hacks, I'm happy to call the contest a draw. Whether we frame the…

Never in a million years. That was my first reaction to finding out that the University of Leicester (where I am based) was about to commence an archaeological dig to uncover the bones of Richard III…

At this link you can find the video of an interview I gave for Festivaletteratura Mantova (the literature festival held last week). I discuss science outreach, the media, the discovery of the Higgs…

There are LEED-certified buildings and there are zero-energy buildings. And then there’s Villa Åkarp outside of Malmo, Sweden — an energy-plus residential home. In other words, a home that produces…

Figure 1 : Schematic illustrating key steps involved in colorimetric measurements using a smartphone [1]. Computers are an indispensable part of laboratories. However, arrival of powerful mobile…

The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) famously offers $1000000 to anyone who can demonstrate paranormal abilities.  Its has helped to stem the spread of pseudoscience.  The Quantum…