Once upon a time, journals were horribly expensive to produce and to read.  Your research might only be read by 200 people but those 200 people knew the work was vetted by reviewers.   It…

Mark, a graduate student in bio-engineering with a history of depression, registers for a scientific conference on evolution, which attracts no suspicion at all; why should it. He takes potassium…

An interesting fellow is doing an interesting thing. Scott Cassell aims to "raise awareness around the detrimental state of the ocean along the Southern California coastline" with a specific…

Every three hours, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope scans the entire sky. Every year, the satellite's scientists reanalyze all of the data it has collected about the high energy universe. A…

The Sheriff of Nottingham will be pleased. It only took 800 years, but poachers can now be tracked down through tests for human DNA on deer remains, according to research led by scientists at the…

I thought it was a joke when Alex Berezow of Real Clear Science sent this to me.  You know, someone sets up a spoof site for laughs because the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks…

I thought it was a joke when Alex Berezow of Real Clear Science sent this to me.  You know, someone sets up a spoof site for laughs because the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks…

Despite the self-loathing of progressives in American science academia, America is a pretty good place to be, even after 15 years of onerous visa restrictions that have made it difficult to hire the…

Some viruses change the behavior of their host, notable examples being the zombie ants and cat-loving rodents. Another example of such a ‘mind-controlling’ virus is the baculovirus, controlling its…

Can professional teachers in a crowded classroom hobbled by arcane government policies teach kids well?   Probably, in most cases, but institutionalized education and their unions have gone to…

A few years back, in my spare time, I had attempted to calculate the relativistic mass of a rotating disc as measured by a reference frame fixed at its center. I used only equations of special…

Kepler-19b, which orbits the Sun-like star Kepler-19 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra, has been found to have an 'invisible' world tugging on it. How do astronomers know, since it…

The COTI (Clip On Thermal Imager) by Optics1 gives warfighters "Predator"-style vision to better tag those terrorists and other threats; it adds thermal signals to to existing night-vision…

The COTI (Clip On Thermal Imager) by Optics1 gives warfighters "Predator"-style vision to better tag those terrorists and other threats; it adds thermal signals to to existing night-vision…

A new alginate binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes could boost energy storage and perhaps help eliminate the toxic compounds in batteries - good news for Prius owners who are concerned…

What did Greenland look like over the last 800,000 years?   Hard to know for sure but one thing is certain; it changed often, and quickly. Drill cores taken from Greenland's vast ice sheets show…

The universe I see when I sit on my porch and look up into the sky is very different from the universe a professional astronomer sees with all of today's available advanced technology.  On a…

Science 2.0 fave Cam Neylon has some thoughts from a recent conference panel, namely that the thought process did not go beyond the usual "Institutions should do X" stuff.   Obviously we all…

Science 2.0 fave Cam Neylon has some thoughts from a recent conference panel, namely that the thought process did not go beyond the usual "Institutions should do X" stuff.   Obviously we all…

SquidFire is having an end-of-summer sale: $5 off all their adult t-shirts. (I think it still applies even if you live in the southern hemisphere.) While not all of their gear features cephalopods,…