The highest paid player in baseball has the last name "Rodriguez" and 3 of the top 10 highest paid players in major league baseball are black - but major league umpires are racist, argues Johan…

The Maxwell equations govern light, electricity and magnetism as a trinity. The Big Goal for the next five weeks is to understand my variations on those equations. I want readers to see both the…

Deep Web Interferometry compares curves in trendlines from synchronized multiple data sources.  Interferometric analysis of Web metrics data increases the clarity of meaningful data points by…

One long-standing myth is that any law claiming to be good for the environment is actually good for the environment.   Anyone living along levees in the South who watched environmental lawsuits…

A Brief History of Arctic Warming Prior to the golden age of global exploration, during which America was first settled, little was know about the Arctic regions or even about climate science in…

The HARPS team today announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including 16 super-Earths - the largest number of such planets ever announced at one time. One of…

The HARPS team today announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including 16 super-Earths - the largest number of such planets ever announced at one time. One of…

We all know a high-fat diet is going to be bad for most people, but why? A study in mice showed that those lacking the gene-expression-controlling enzyme HDAC3 that were fed a high-fat diet…

What would you say if an oil company said it wanted to invest in alternative energy research but the cost was too much so it needed public financing - but wanted no accountability or timeframes or an…

Extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf dubbed 2MASS J21392676+0220226, or 2MASS 2139 for short, may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old brown dwarfs and…

I don't like SpongeBob SquarePants.  I generally regard any parent who does like SpongeBob SquarePants with suspicion and derision; they probably watch "Real Housewives of Fresno" or…

A new species of large predatory fish named Laccognathus embryi that prowled ancient North American waterways during the Devonian Period, before backboned animals existed on land, has been…

With a ban on incandescent bulbs looming in the US, the race is on to try and replace them - unfortunately the ban was used to artificially force innovation, which isn't how things work in science…

A genome-based immunization strategy may 'illuminate' ways to combat AIDS and other diseases.  Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) causes AIDS in cats as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)…

Optofluidic solar lighting systems could mean a real boost in solar energy - they capture sunlight from a roof using a light concentrating system that follows the sun's path by changing the angle of…

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The female orgasm has been a topic of debate among evolutionary biologists (and among many other people as well, of course). Is it adaptive, or a by-product of the male orgasm? Does it suck sperm…

A group of people are joining together for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center to discover whether their 'collective intention' can bring peace to the…

Here's a brilliant username I wish I'd thought of: Anthropoteuthis. The Spanish marine biology student who deserves credit spells it Antropoteuthis, since the "th" phoneme is foreign to Spanish. He…

When I create original 'op ed' or educational bits for Science 2.0 (the movement, not the website), I often start with a podcast of the topic (over at 365 Days of Astronomy).  Then, I post the…