Mark Osteen's One of Us There are many memoirs out there, many stories by individuals about their journeys as parents of disabled children, and some are good, some are great, and others are neither.…

The question 'what can you do with such a tiny satellite' has many answers.  This week we're looking at Calliope's faster, cooler cousin, the ion-drive testing platform called FRETS1. An ion…

Punctuated equilibrium is a model of how evolutionary change happens.  Like how raising taxes can help poor people in economic theory, it is an often-misinterpreted model but means that …

Punctuated equilibrium is a model of how evolutionary change happens.  Like how raising taxes can help poor people in economic theory, it is an often-misinterpreted model but means that …

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. Family : Saxifragaceae Bhutanese medicinal name : Bri- ta- sa- zin Distribution area: Bhutan, Nepal to S.W. China. Alt. 3,600-4,500m. Alpine…

Ignaz Venetz - Climate Change Pioneer - #3 There is no such thing as a perfect translation. En effet, on peut être utile sans atteindre à la perfection; Agenda, ou tableau général des Observations et…

Age does  a lot of things to us. And to our brains, which shrink when we grow older. Those incredibly complex neural networks inside our skulls not only shrink, but they also become more…

Occasionally, my interests in the psychology of belief and my love of sci-fi intersect. Imagine if you will my howling with disgust when one of my favorite shows perpetuates the 10% myth of brain use…

With the end of the space shuttle, we may also be seeing an end to manned space travel as a science endeavor.  I am not saying we shouldn't send people into space, we certainly should, but it…

Lets gamble; participating costs you only 50 cents per game. The odds are in your favor! Two out of three times, you win and get a dollar. So we start playing, and it seems as if we walk along time,…

June 28 - Shoot It in the Head Snarky puzzle. If you go down in a gravity field, time ticks slower, rulers look longer to someone else. That is 2 changes. Newton’s scalar theory accounts for just one…

If you haven't already, go enjoy Hank's blog, "Higgs Boson - Forget Science, What Do Bookies Think?". He answered what was the most pressing question to me: one cannot bet that no Higgs will be found…

I was catching up on chemistry news over the lunch hour and discovered this little gelatinous gem:New Strategy for Expression of Recombinant Hydroxylated Human-Derived Gelatin in Pichia pastoris…

Is it possible to bring up a squid-related topic about which I have nothing to say? So far, the answer seems to be no. I'm not sure if I should be proud--or find some more hobbies. Anyhoo, today's…

This paper introduces a new model of physics. It is based on logic. It uses the congruence between the logic of quantum physics and a mathematical construct that got its name from David Hilbert. The…

The LHC and its lower-energy counterpart in the US, Tevatron, have reported some important Higgs news this past week - details of six searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson at CERN and another…

My immediate feeling as Shuttle Atlantis touched down safely was one of relief. But now that all the post-facto analysis have started, with maybe some recrimination, let me entertain you all…

A perhaps somewhat lugubrious study, published in PLoS ONE, set out to investigate whether decapitation is a humane method of euthanasia in small animals, such as rats and birds. To do this, they…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be an older man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be an older man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…