Police blotters can make fun reading, especially when they show up in your news alert for "squid," and especially when they use the word "caper": The caper began when someone used blue spray paint to…

Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that we may have been wrong about the age of the Moon. It is commonly accepted that the Moon was…

What is five times the tensile strength of steel and  the best currently available synthetic fibers?  If you read the title you already know.   Spider thread is a fascinating and…

Scientists at the Smithsonian and partnering organizations have discovered a remarkably primitive eel they have named Protoanguilla palau in a fringing reef off the coast of the Republic of Palau.…

Kudos to The Mac Observer's John Martellaro for dusting off his geometry and calculating the diameter of the circle that would circumscribe the Pentagon's five 921-foot sides. Answer: 1,566 feet. But…

Kudos to The Mac Observer's John Martellaro for dusting off his geometry and calculating the diameter of the circle that would circumscribe the Pentagon's five 921-foot sides. Answer: 1,566 feet. But…

I can't stand cotton candy but my kids love it - naturally that means a science experiment is in the making but it turns out University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Food Engineering Richard…

I can't stand cotton candy but my kids love it - naturally that means a science experiment is in the making but it turns out University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Food Engineering Richard…

Theoretical Physics - it is cool. Especially elementary particle physics. Especially Quantum Field Theory. It uses renormalizations of constants, which is out of comprehension to most layman people.…

Usually when you think of drugs, you think of mules, but camels have also unique properties, except those can be used in future drug development. Members of the camelid family have particular heavy-…

In the modern world, even residents of London generate more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data than human operators can collate and that can severely limit the ability of an…

The proof against local realism is humankind’s the most relevant finding in the realm of science and philosophy; there is no excuse to be ignorant about it while pretending to be interested and…

Studies....So Many Studies... Lots of buzz over recent weeks on various studies concerning autism, genetics, and environment, along with the incidence of autism occurring in subsequent siblings. I…

Here's a trivia question; what's the longest alliance in history? Unless you went by the title, you were probably stumped.  Maybe you believe it is England and Portugal at 638 years.   You…

For serious, you guys, look at this! Just in from The Epoch Times, Science in Pics: Bobtail squid burying itself in sand at Seraya in Bali, Indonesia. (Matthew Oldfield)The little fins seem to be…

In a sign that media people don't always understand media - especially social media - The Cool Blue Company LLC is proud to announce the world's first print magazine dedicated to social media called…

MSNBC reported on the latest set of new NASA prizes: NASA today announced three new competitions offering a total of $5 million in prizes — and only one of them involves actually putting something in…

A marble statue of Hercules from the second century has been uncovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority at Horvat Tarbenet. Horvat Tarbenet is located in the Jezreel Valley,…

A marble statue of Hercules from the second century has been uncovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority at Horvat Tarbenet. Horvat Tarbenet is located in the Jezreel Valley,…

Weakened immunity is a serious issue for older people. Because our immune systems become less effective as we age we suffer from more infections and these are often more severe. This is an important…