Even though arsenic is toxic for many organs in the human body, it is used in therapeutic medicine and the treatment of some forms of cancer, and is an active component of drugs against parasitic…

Over the past fifty years there has been a growth in radio technology that has completely changed our lives at many levels including our personal lives, the way we educate our kids, how we do science…

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D, aged 92, is a chemist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis. He is called the 'Godfather of Global Warming'.  What he was, to most people, was an…

  Critics of organic agriculture claim it is too low-yieldingto be a viable alternative to conventional agriculture. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that poor performance is…

[I changed the title of this blog to prepend Proto to vector space since a vector space is defined over a mathematical field.  While I explored the possibility that the positive real numbers…

Did Roman influence extend to the farthest reaches of Asia? Maybe it was the other way around and Japan or its trading partners were common in Europe. Either way, glass jewelry of Roman design has…

Did Roman influence extend to the farthest reaches of Asia? Maybe it was the other way around and Japan or its trading partners were common in Europe. Either way, glass jewelry of Roman design has…

Wikipedia's user-generated content has made it the world's largest, and most derided, encyclopedia. Part of the openness model has also led to 'edit wars' when the anonymous "editors" disagree with…

The fun folks of Nerd Nite San Francisco invited me to straighten out all the hilarious squid sperm news with a mini-talk last Wednesday. I was honored! Nerd Nite SF: Squid Spermatophore mini-talk…

For science credibility about biology, who means more? For GMOs Against GMOs US National Academy of Sciences PETA  UN World Health Organization  Sierra Club  US Department of…

For science credibility about biology, who means more? For GMOs Against GMOs US National Academy of Sciences PETA  UN World Health Organization  Sierra Club  US Department of…

Professor Richard Dawkins, the bestselling author who has been wrong about biology as often as he has been right, is taking Edward O. Wilson, Science 2.0's favorite myrmecologist, to task for…

The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is still working its way through the courts. The US government is pressing ahead with its $18 billion legal action despite the oil giant’s $7.8 billion…

The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is still working its way through the courts. The US government is pressing ahead with its $18 billion legal action despite the oil giant’s $7.8 billion…

Political scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives finally passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists.…

As we near the first week of July, with the start of the International Conference of High-Energy Physics in Melbourne (July 2nd-8th) and the July 4th press release at CERN on the new results of Higgs…

Using 160 high-resolution tungsten leaves and dramatically faster leaf movement, Elekta’s new Agility multi-leaf collimator (MLC) radiation therapy treatment for cancer patients recently received 510…

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is enjoying increasing popularity all over the world - to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, making it Big Business. Yet there are concerns.…

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is enjoying increasing popularity all over the world - to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, making it Big Business. Yet there are concerns.…

A new study shows that ursolic acid, a natural substance found in apple peel, can partially protect mice from obesity and some of its harmful effects. Obviously ursolic acid, a lipophilic…