Imagine a world where Discover, Nature Networks, Science 2.0, Scienceblogs, Discovery and all the others worked together.   Yes, yes, I know we all do on occasion, but those times are based on…

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Bad news for bloggers; the courts love to protect journalists, even those shysters who use 'anonymous' sources that have directly led to the rash of modern journalists inventing even Pulitzer Prize-…

A common belief among club-going men is that women choose less attractive friends to make themselves look better. See this clip from that important anthropological documentary "Hall Pass" for context…

More than a year ago, after yet another horrifying story about a parent killing her autistic child, I wrote a post on how scientific research shows that filicide is almost always…

Climate change experts come in all shapes and colors. The Earth system is very complex and the climate on this planet is influences and can be understood from various perspectives. To get the whole…

Huffington Post has a piece up on whether parents of obese children are in denial. Of course, the comments are typical for Huff; there are the usual close-minded asses who assume that all…

What does chessboxing have to do with science? Let me tell you a little story...It all started last November with this tweet: There was a Twitter conversation about politics, and I suggested the…

Teenagers 16 years old and younger would have been able to get the 'Morning-After' Pill, called Plan B One-Step, under new FDA guidelines. Currently, they can get it, it just requires a…

Teenagers 16 years old and younger would have been able to get the 'Morning-After' Pill, called Plan B One-Step, under new FDA guidelines. Currently, they can get it, it just requires a…

Eye evolution is always interesting stuff, as I last discussed regarding Dr. Ivan Schwab's "Evolution's Witness".   A new finding suggests that the compound eyes evolved right at the origin…

Eye evolution is always interesting stuff, as I last discussed regarding Dr. Ivan Schwab's "Evolution's Witness".   A new finding suggests that the compound eyes evolved right at the origin…

Cellebrite, a developer and manufacturer of mobile forensic solutions, has rejected claims in the recent WikiLeaks "Spy Files" exposé that it is among companies that develop and supply equipment to…

New research  by Dr Ashok  K.  Singal suggests that the solar system is hurtling through space at a speed much higher than previously thought. The newly calculated speed might prove…

It is by now public that Rolf Heuer, the Director General of CERN, in announcing for December 13th two back-to-back talks of the CMS and ATLAS experiments on their Higgs search results with 2011 data…

Do we really care about climate change? Since we do very little to reduce or limit activities that we believe we know cause climate change one could argue that we - do - not - in - fact - care. Come…

If on occasions you dream about owning the world's largest particle smasher, I have good news for you. The Superconducting Super Collider is for sale "at a significant discount". However, to stand a…

At the AGU meeting in San Francisco, journalist Simon Winchester apologized to attendees for his March 2011 article that claimed the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan could trigger a daisy chain of temblors…

At the AGU meeting in San Francisco, journalist Simon Winchester apologized to attendees for his March 2011 article that claimed the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan could trigger a daisy chain of temblors…

A new species of horned dinosaur, Spinops sternbergorum, was announced today by an international team of scientists nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. Spinops sternbergorum…