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…

Conventional motion capture for film, like Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and game production ("Mass Effect 3") involves multiple cameras and actors festooned with markers but the future…

It's American election season and that means it is time for psychologists to introduce racism again - not whether you are racist, but how much. Well, only white people are, said a talk at the Annual…

It is believed that the first mustache transplants were performed by the late trichological pioneer Dr. Okuda in 1930’s Japan. Since then, considerable progress has been made – some of which is…

Organisms can be divided into autotrophs, which can synthesize their own food using inorganic minerals, and heterotrophs which require organic food.  Plants produce organic compounds from simple…

The Curiosity rover has landed safely on MARS, we have seen the image of the wheel on the surface.    There were good reasons to doubt the "Sky crane" approach to a landing.  Just one…

When CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson on July 4th this year--the result of years of running of the…

Scientists have combined the power of two kinds of microscope to produce a 3-dimensional movie of how cells ‘swallow’ nutrients and other molecules by engulfing them - the first to follow changes in…

Viscous materials do not follow standard laws - below a sub-melting point threshold, anyway.  Glass-formers are a class of highly viscous liquid materials that have the consistency of honey and…

Everytime I hear the word 'manhole' I think I have a hearing problem, or that my English is really, really bad. It sounds like a word I should understand, consisting of the two well known words 'man…

If you love the appearance of getting hammered and are too classy to hold 'near' beer - or, oddly, you enjoy the taste of whisky but don't like getting hammered - there is good news;  the world'…

Traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula may mean chocolate was a condiment or sauce with solid food in pre-Hispanic cultures rather than as a beverage reserved for the…

Traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula may mean chocolate was a condiment or sauce with solid food in pre-Hispanic cultures rather than as a beverage reserved for the…

Banks and brokerage houses employ a lot of physicists - it was a big fad of the last decade because the industry discovered that physicists knew how to make models and economists did not. But…

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, remains in good health and is just one day and 12 hours from touchdown on Mars. All systems are go and it is doing so well the planned…

India suffered the worst blackouts in history this week, leaving over 600 million people without power and providing evidence of deep problems in a sector teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for the…

India suffered the worst blackouts in history this week, leaving over 600 million people without power and providing evidence of deep problems in a sector teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for the…

"Total Recall" may be getting creamed by critics but fans of VR headsets are firmly behind the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is a head-mounted display with a few features that make it ideal for gamers…

"Total Recall" may be getting creamed by critics but fans of VR headsets are firmly behind the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift is a head-mounted display with a few features that make it ideal for gamers…

An experiment using single particles of light, photons, have produced and implemented them intoa quantum key distribution (QKD) link. The single photons were produced using two devices made of…