With the approach of Summer conferences -most notably, ICHEP, which alone has set a make-or-die deadline for the LHC experiments- physicists in ATLAS and CMS are frantically producing their results…

Honestly, media. *polishes obnoxious academic spectacles* Is it really that difficult to comprehend the difference between "inseminate" and "impregnate"? On Thursday I reported that a woman's…

Advances in medical and surgical care are hard-won, requiring rigorous, carefully interpreted research and development. There is painstaking clinical work to translate basic discoveries into useful…

Advances in medical and surgical care are hard-won, requiring rigorous, carefully interpreted research and development. There is painstaking clinical work to translate basic discoveries into useful…

For about a day I had been trying to read Real Clear Science, particularly the article linked Evolution Debate: Blame Atheists.  Alas, every time I visited the site I got a message: This site is…

This G is with us since last centuries. Of course, it is Newton gravitation constant. Traditionally it is written using a capital G, and yes! it is a big G!But this one, every universal constant in…

University of Rajasthan, which was the only university founded in the State of Rajputana in 1946 and is now known as Rajasthan, was meant for the entire Rajasthan population of around 20 million. Its…

I'm thoroughly impressed with "The Descent of Religion: Its Evolution from Nurturing to Bullying...and Back!" by Liz Carr-Harris.　 It is a singular work of research; fearless in its questioning of…

This November, Californians will vote on an initiative that would require any food containing ingredients derived from genetically modified crops to be labeled as such. Backers of the “California…

Cancer is scary, right? One of the reasons that cancer is so viscerally frightening is that it is so tightly associated with death. But how does cancer actually kill a person? This may seem like an…

Too often we see the "anti-science" label being tossed around and invariably we get behind our respective barricades and prepare for the barrage of arguments thrown at each side. However, the…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s rumored retreat on fracking shows just how powerful an anti-science, fear-based campaign can be. If reports are correct, Cuomo will restrict fracking to a few…

A Mojave rocket company, an asteroid hunter, and a web pundit walk into a conference.  The badge person says, "what is this some kind of joke?" Okay, we gotta get to space somehow.  Here's…

It sounds like a child’s question: can you generate solar power underwater? The answer, according to Phillip Jenkins and his team at the US Naval Research Laboratory, is yes. The researchers recently…

In the giant 'Europeans are far more anti-science than Americans' file, we can now add another section on racism. Science can use genetic testing to understand risk factors - some groups have a…

I'm here today to talk about a very strange paper: Penetration of the oral mucosa by parasite-like sperm bags of squid: a case report in a Korean woman. This study, published in February in the…

So a young earth creationist museum put some dinosaurs in its advertising.  Ho-hum. While the atheist panic machine lumbers into action once again - after all, kids like dinosaurs, what if they…

Two days ago I discussed at ICFP 2012 the most recent results of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In the allotted time of my talk I could only cover few analyses, and I obviously…

It's a nightmare for Whole Foods shoppers; what if genetically modified crops produced by evil scientists who only care about profits for their employers (i.e., the same as every employee of Whole…

It's a nightmare for Whole Foods shoppers; what if genetically modified crops produced by evil scientists who only care about profits for their employers (i.e., the same as every employee of Whole…