[ The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3) and here (part 4)].Ian Sample, a science journalist from the Guardian, asked me…

Below is a live streaming webcast from the auditorium at CERN, where they will be revealing the latest news on the Higgs discovery. Science 2.0's Dr. Tommaso Dorigo is writing live from there so…

[ The first three entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) and here (part 3)] 7.30 AM People have started flowing in the Main Auditorium. It seems things…

[ The first two entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) and here (part 2) ] 7 AM. In thirty minutes the doors of the Main auditorium will open, and people will flood in. I…

This is the second post of a series of blogs that I am writing this morning, July 4th, to describe the ongoing happenings at CERN, where at 9AM the Higgs boson Observation will be announced by the…

5.30 AM. Getting in at CERN through the B entrance I see no living soul. "Ha" -I tell myself- "I have been worrying too much". 5.36 AM. But the people is all here since last night ! There is a huge…

The so called “Free Thought Blogs” (FTB) has kicked out blogger Greg Laden and some other godless chap: “Thunderfoot”. Ed Brayton, the FTB high priest, writes that: it was intended to be very “loosy-…

Are you smarter than a cat? Not if you are a vegetarian. Cats know what is good for them and that is why cats are basically carnivores.  Cats can't produce taurine,  2-…

Are you smarter than a cat? Not if you are a vegetarian. Cats know what is good for them and that is why cats are basically carnivores.  Cats can't produce taurine,  2-…

V1647 Ori resides 1300 light-years away in McNeil’s Nebula. It is a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma and astronomers have now been able to deduce what might…

What causes obesity?  Obviously ingesting more calories than a person burns leads to weight gain but what really causes obesity? Will banning Big Gulps, Happy Meals and Trans fats make people…

By now it's been written on so many newspapers and magazines -including Nature (the magazine, not the bitch)- that if a colleague of mine tries to reproach me for writing about the impending seminar…

If you use off-the-shelf electronics parts instead of expensive, hard-to-find space-rated gear, will your satellite work?  The process of 'derating' will let you do this.  Engineer Amanda…

Older honey bees halt and even reverse the effects of brain aging when they are given roles typically handled by younger bees. This has led researchers to suggest that that social interventions may…

"That's something you don't see every day, Chauncey.""What's that, Edgar?""A man eating a whole live squid mere weeks after news reports that eating whole squid can lead to mouth insemination." "But…

So, currently, the US is hosting the world's largest naval excercises from Hawaii (RIMPAC 2012). The New Zealand navy, amongst the other 22 nations participating, has been refused entry to Pearl…

The government has mandated labeling standards to warn consumers of potential hazards, like smoking's link to cancer and lung disease. But science illiterates (AKA progressive social authoritarians)…

The government has mandated labeling standards to warn consumers of potential hazards, like smoking's link to cancer and lung disease. But science illiterates (AKA progressive social authoritarians)…

Greenpeace activists stuck in the 1970s, you need to take a lesson from Madonna; always be reinventing yourself. We don't hear much about 'Nuclear Winter' since the Soviet Union collapsed and sold…

The influence of aerosols and clouds represent one of the largest known uncertainties in the scientific understanding of trends in our past global climate - and also hinder predictions of future…