The recent discoveries that α-Synuclein(α-Syn), a central player in Parkinson´s disease (PD) brain destruction, can not only pass from one neuron to another but also exist outside neuronal cells…

A recent, fascinating recent study is Decoding Animal Languages, by Con Slobodchikoff.  At one level, it is an inspiring demonstration of how new technologies can liberate us from…

There's good stuff happening in Detroit too.  While journalists make political theater about golfing their way through the abandoned parts of the city (Detroit is the home of Great Society…

There's good stuff happening in Detroit too.  While journalists make political theater about golfing their way through the abandoned parts of the city (Detroit is the home of Great Society…

We’ve long depended on coal-fired and natural gas power plants to convert chemical fuel into electricity. Now, scientists have found a way to convert electricity into a fuel using excess power from…

In 1981 the philosopher Peter Singer published a book titled The Expanding Circle – Ethics, Evolution and Moral Progress. The book was inspired by EO Wilson’s Sociobiology – The New Synthesis,…

Russians at the JINR Nuclotron believe they have found a new particle, the E(38), as reported in this paper at ArXiv. The particle interacts with quarks and gluons only and appears in collisions on…

I like John Mackey. He is a savvy food guy who enrages the bulk of his customer base with his libertarian economic policies while they make him rich.  I can't say I share his love for Ayn Rand…

I like John Mackey. He is a savvy food guy who enrages the bulk of his customer base with his libertarian economic policies while they make him rich.  I can't say I share his love for Ayn Rand…

The food business, including those claiming to be superior because they are selling organic or 'health' products, is still business.  They exist to lure you in and make you buy as much stuff as…

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended operations at Central Valley Meat Co. in Hanford, Calif.,  due to video evidence showing dairy cows, some unable to walk, being…

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended operations at Central Valley Meat Co. in Hanford, Calif.,  due to video evidence showing dairy cows, some unable to walk, being…

Can robots learn language?  Is understanding a language depending on how we see the world and does a Spanish speaker see the world in the same way as an English one? Linguistic and cognitive…

This fall, California voters will be asked to vote on Proposition 37, a law which would require that all foods including “GMO Crop ingredients” be labeled as such.   There are many reasons that…

San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, coming off an an All-Star Game MVP award, had unusually high testosterone levels to go along with his .346 batting average and 11 home runs.  These…

Here is the bleak story of a seasick squid, a granted wish, and a horrible way to live life: by Alex Culang and Raynato Castro at Buttersafe, h/t to Squid.us Don't get too sad though,…

The EPA has declared water, the substance the Clean Water Act was created to protect, a pollutant - and it is getting the federal government dragged into court. How so?  They are requiring…

An ongoing legal battle regarding gene patents began in 2009 when the ACLU representing numerous clients sued Myriad Genetics and the USPTO. The dispute is over patents on two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2,…

A sociology paper claims that binge-drinking college students are having a much better time in school than their non-binge-drinking counterparts. Binge drinking may be popular on campuses not simply…

The world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food per year.  If only scientists could create a "biorefinery" that could change food waste into a key ingredient for making plastics, laundry detergents…