Io's global "ocean" of molten rock beneath the surface feeds its prolific volcanism, a new study finds. Unlike Earth's magma, which tends to cluster in pockets around the edges of tectonic plates, Io…

Are managers at the Australian Synchrotronpanicking given the news that neither the federal government nor the Victoria state government has addressed in their just-released budget proposals how the…

Are managers at the Australian Synchrotronpanicking given the news that neither the federal government nor the Victoria state government has addressed in their just-released budget proposals how the…

The measurement of the production rate of top quark pairs at the Tevatron is by now a very well developed technology, where it is hard to invent anything new. Eight years ago, however, there was…

A few years ago, when 2% of astronomers decided Pluto should no longer a planet, the confusion was so great and the definition so arbitrary and so we now have five 'dwarf' planets in our solar system…

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan,…

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan,…

A winged ant queen fossilized in 49.5-million-year-old Wyoming rock ranks as the first body of a giant ant from the Western Hemisphere. Its new moniker?   Titanomyrma lubei. And they didn't…

A winged ant queen fossilized in 49.5-million-year-old Wyoming rock ranks as the first body of a giant ant from the Western Hemisphere. Its new moniker?   Titanomyrma lubei. And they didn't…

Mike Adams ought to have his library card revoked or limited to the children’s section as he obviously has a serious problem with reading comprehension. He takes Hawking’s The Grand Design…

Since 1988, students at the University of Arizona were given a questionnaire in order to determine their attitudes toward science and pseudoscience, as well as examine their basic scientific…

Since 1988, students at the University of Arizona were given a questionnaire in order to determine their attitudes toward science and pseudoscience, as well as examine their basic scientific…

"Within human culture, the hymen has great significance for its perceived correlation to female sexual status. For many cultures, the presence of an intact hymen before marriage suggests purity and…

"Within human culture, the hymen has great significance for its perceived correlation to female sexual status. For many cultures, the presence of an intact hymen before marriage suggests purity and…

With the discovery of so many new extrasolar planets, astronomers have observed that in some of these systems the star is spinning one way but the planet, a 'hot Jupiter', a huge Jupiter-like planet…

Science 2.0 fave Darlene Cavalier, the Science Cheerleader, has big news.    The “Science of NFL Football”series, produced by NBC Learn, NBC Sports and the National Science Foundation in…

Science 2.0 fave Darlene Cavalier, the Science Cheerleader, has big news.    The “Science of NFL Football”series, produced by NBC Learn, NBC Sports and the National Science Foundation in…

The “vaccine injury” community has been buzzing over the press conference and release of Holland et al’s supposedly earth shattering “study” published in the Pace Environmental Law Review. Some of…

How much are 1 million visitors worth?  In the midst of my bake sale for science, I am verifying the 1% rule.  Greg Stolze noted, why have 94 people 'liked' my fundraiser on Facebook, but…

It may surprise you to learn this but Nature (the magazine, not the bitch) is not a fan of yours.  Or ours.  Or anyone not part of their multi-billion dollar publishing conglomerate. They…