My husband has an enormous head. Sometimes this concerns me, when I consider the degree to which skull size may have a genetic basis and the fact that we'll probably reproduce at some point. That has…

Try going into a hospital room to see a newborn baby without using that annoying hand sanitizer stuff - the Frankenstein monster had an easier time with angry villagers than you will have with…

The results of a new Supersymmetry search have been released a few days ago by the ATLAS collaboration. They come from an analysis of events with large missing transverse energy and jets -the most…

Kadaya ( Sterculia urens) and Salar ( Boswellia serrata) are very typical in their habitat. They grow on slopes approaching hill tops or near hill tops ( but not on the hill tops ) if the water…

From March 15th to March 18th I will be following the NEUTEL 11 conference, which conveniently (for yours truly!) takes place in Venice, in the magnificent setting of Palazzo Franchetti (see picture…

A group of German archaeologists have set off to find a priceless ancient treasure and I'd rather they not get it.    Sounds like the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" right? As smashing as…

On the face of it, Al Gore conducting a global warming conference during a blizzard a few years ago looked bad.   But maybe it was a teaching moment. The weather has always had swings and…

Arctic Ice March 2011 In April 2010 a late upward blip in Arctic sea ice extent led some bloggers to write about 'recovery'.  The blip was anomalous, hence there is no reason to expect a…

Archimedes steps in again.  The MacTutor tells us that “Archimedes considered his most significant accomplishments were those concerning a cylinder circumscribing a sphere, and he asked for…

Eek, sorry, I kinda disappeared for a few days. There was really good powder, what can I say? I can at least draw a tenuous connection between driving up to the mountains and today's blog topic! If…

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ve likely used one or another of the URL shorteners out there. Even if you’re not, you may have run across a shortened URL. The first shortener I encountered, several…

When I was a young Army officer with ridiculously low body fat, I once lost our unit's physical fitness 'Iron Man' competition (not an Iron Man race, but rather the top aggregate score in the…

When I was a young Army officer with ridiculously low body fat, I once lost our unit's physical fitness 'Iron Man' competition (not an Iron Man race, but rather the top aggregate score in the…

Comparing athletes across generations is always difficult - in football, for example, players are bigger and stronger but before the hashmark changes of the early 1970s, when the field truly had a…

Every once in a while we are told that Schrödinger’s cat is now proven. One incarnation of the ‘Finally Proven!!!’ of macroscopic quantum superposition was hailed as one of the 10…

Greetings, true believers. I've not let a week pass yet without some tidbit of amateur satellite relevance, and this week is no exception.  Being pleasantly mired in work-work, I'll be…

RealClearScience Editor and Science 2.0 fave Dr. Alex Berezow does a Science Cafe on genetic modification.   Using humor and great examples, he punctures the anti-science hysteria surrounding…

RealClearScience Editor and Science 2.0 fave Dr. Alex Berezow does a Science Cafe on genetic modification.   Using humor and great examples, he punctures the anti-science hysteria surrounding…

Why would a researcher spend long nights for little money in search of the hopelessly obscure?    Tommaso Dorigo reports from the control room of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one…

Why would a researcher spend long nights for little money in search of the hopelessly obscure?    Tommaso Dorigo reports from the control room of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one…