Think someone is bored if they yawn? Perhaps their brain is just overheating. A study led by Andrew Gallup, a postdoc in Princeton University's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, says…

$65 billion is is the increase in net farm income, the farm level benefit after paying for the seed and its biotech traits, that the biotech industry has provided across the globe during the period…

Apollo 11 and giant leaps for mankind get all the love now but the missions leading up to it brought their own excitement - and a mystery.   In May 1969, two months before man walked on the Moon…

Living in northern California, I have enjoyed one of the nicest summers I have ever had anywhere.  It's been spectacular.  Of course, climate instability can be a very bad thing - next year…

Living in northern California, I have enjoyed one of the nicest summers I have ever had anywhere.  It's been spectacular.  Of course, climate instability can be a very bad thing - next year…

Nature invited some prominent names to comment on Al Gore's recently concluded Climate Reality Project. Barry W. Brook, director of climate science, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide,…

Nature invited some prominent names to comment on Al Gore's recently concluded Climate Reality Project. Barry W. Brook, director of climate science, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide,…

Should the least-proven medical treatments have fewer guidelines than evidence-based medicine? New proposed Ontario guidelines for how doctors should acknowledge and incorporate alternative therapies…

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that causes urethritis and pelvic inflammatory disease.  Before AIDS, this was what you got for having promiscuous, unprotected sex…

The number of individuals who are obese and suffer with its associated health problems has continued to rise, even being called an epidemic. Is it genetics?  The dream of cheap food finally…

Massachusetts implemented health care reform to increase employer-based insurance and to provide no-cost or low-cost insurance to those unable to afford it but it hasn't worked - the uninsured in…

Some people have no fingerprints.  That might be handy in a burglary but it can be an issue when passing through immigration or in security situations where a fingerprint is required, like…

In her 1979 article Gene-Juggling, Mary Midgley criticises Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene with the words: 'Genes cannot be selfish or unselfish, any more than atoms can be jealous, elephants…

Kerry Cohen, author of Seeing Ezra, agreed to an interview with Kathleen Leopold and me. Kathleen's questions appear first. (This post appears at the Autism Blogs Directory) The name "Ezra" means aid…

[Introduction: I published the text below last Monday, when the news of this controversial new measurement had spread in the corridors of physics departments, as well as in the threads of popular HEP…

The Collider Detector at Fermilab, CDF for insiders, is the longest lasting physics experiment ever (yes, I know about the pitch drop and no, I do not consider that a physics experiment). Designed in…

Cowritten by Kim Wombles and Kathleen Leopold Kathleen Leopold and I have been blogging buddies for over two years now, working on various projects together, struggling to figure out our places in…

Obama Foodarama, the public portion of the digital archive of record about Obama Administration food and nutrition initiatives from the White House by Eddie Gehman Kohan, has this nifty article on…

Obama Foodarama, the public portion of the digital archive of record about Obama Administration food and nutrition initiatives from the White House by Eddie Gehman Kohan, has this nifty article on…

A retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade has been solved by researchers who called on the participatory cornerstone of Science 2.0 for help.  A group…