Say what you want about former President George W. Bush, he was good for science.   Sure, he had a moral position against human embryonic stem cell research, but President Obama has only been…

Say what you want about former President George W. Bush, he was good for science.   Sure, he had a moral position against human embryonic stem cell research, but President Obama has only been…

A little nuclear robot on Mars is getting all of the attention this week but Earth has plenty of undiscovered life - a third of Earth's organisms live in our planet's rocks and sediments and…

As a newly minted, 1 year old professor, this is the deep end of the astronomy edu cation pool. I am swimming in the insights and experiences of people with more experience than me. I recommend…

Abbott today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Omnilink Elite® Vascular Balloon-Expandable Stent System for the treatment of iliac artery disease, a form of…

Climate change advocacy groups are not happy with U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern's recent statement at Dartmouth College renouncing a limit of 2 degree celsius (2C) temperature rise as a global goal…

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Gibson Guitar Corp. entered into a criminal enforcement agreement resolving a criminal investigation into allegations that the company violated the…

Pyros small tactical munition completed a successful warhead and guidance system test, according to Raytheon. There are three choices for guiding the weapon to the target: GPS coordinates, inertial…

Afraid of flying?  Maybe there is something to that.  Dogs?  Okay.  But fear of buttons?  Puh-leeeze. The phobia business - legitimizing irrational quirks - has become Big…

“While bottled water users had significantly lower fluoride intakes, this study found no conclusive evidence of an association with increased caries,” according to “An investigation of bottled water…

Researchers all claim Impact Factor is meaningless - for other researchers, anyway.  The blockade put up by corporate publishing hinges on Impact Factor alone so if it were truly unimportant,…

Medieval clerics did not like the prospect of giving up sex - heck, every man getting getting married dreads the part about giving up sex  - so even when they had to do so by Papal decree there…

The Carnival of Cosmology: Bloggers on Dark Energy is now up and running on Matthew R. Francis' Galileo's Pendulum: In the spirit of blog carnivals, several of us—cosmologists, physicists,…

In 2008, “The missing memristor found” [1] was published in the respected science journal Nature, and this claimed discovery was announced on the front pages of most major newspapers. This “discovery…

PETA, People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals, doesn't always make sense.  They protest objectifying dead fish, for example, by objectifying live women.  Actually, they show more naked…

Usain Bolt runs faster than you.  He makes it look easy but he certainly works hard at it.  He also has an advantage you don't - the right genes. Is that random?  Maybe.  Mutation…

Usain Bolt runs faster than you.  He makes it look easy but he certainly works hard at it.  He also has an advantage you don't - the right genes. Is that random?  Maybe.  Mutation…

Fainting, also called vasovagal syncope (by about five neurologists and no one else), is a brief loss of consciousness that occurs when blood flow to the brain drops.  Its causes are so numerous…

Does gaydar exist?  If so, it's in the eyes. Sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, say researchers who used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary…

Medical science has done miraculous things - namely saving billions of lives.  But anti-science activists are driving workers who develop new drugs out of research, by attacking them and and…