OK, by now everyone's familiar with "Watson", the IBM Jeopardy machine with all the hype and drama associated with Artificial Intelligence and what it means for the future of humanity.  Is it…

Popular science writing today can be hit and miss. It can be truly awful; such as Brian Greene’s immensely dull Elegant Universe, Stephen Jay Gould’s idiosyncratically waffley Rocks of Ages, and…

Three main interpretations have arisen regarding the recent mass wildlife deaths throughout the world. The first set of reasons given as to why these mass animal and fish deaths are occurring is…

Climate change impacts on river basins in semi arid areas in India. In a joint initiative taken by Bioforsk Norway and IIT Delhi studies have been undertaken to study likely impacts of climate change…

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Finally, it looks like Silvio Berlusconi will be tried. The judge for preliminary investigations has accepted the request of an immediate trial, put forth by the magistrates who collected a large…

Cancer can be described as a cellular disease, which is thought to arise from misbehaving cells that divide uncontrollably in vivo. Our basic understanding of why this occurs is because these “cancer…

The schedule 1 illicit drug known as ecstasy has been used by up to 12 million people in the United States  and millions more worldwide.  Past research has suggested that ecstasy users…

There are varying levels of acceptance for various climate models, especially those that predict short-term escalation of warming due to man-made emissions. Given that, no one is going to like new…

The This American Life radio program claims it has found the secret recipe for Coca-Cola in an old (well, relatively speaking) newspaper article, published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1979…

The This American Life radio program claims it has found the secret recipe for Coca-Cola in an old (well, relatively speaking) newspaper article, published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1979…

The Smithsonian has posted cool videos of Clyde Roper talking about his passion for the giant squid, Architeuthis. Two of the videos are short excerpts of an interview with Roper, and one is a ten-…

A week or so ago, New Scientist told us about some new research technology by Toshiba, a system that recognizes fruits and veg at the self-checkout station: Its system, developed by Susumu Kubota and…

I'll tell you flat out, I love Public Information Officers - PIOs in journalism parlance.  Without them, I would never get anywhere near the good stuff I get to write about.   I would much…

A short while ago, SciFest 2010, the International Science Festival, was held in St. Louis.   Making the trip was a group from Jersey Shore, PA and they were invited because a teacher, Slater…

Electricity has a new little sister: magnetricity. A team of physicists in England has created magnetic charges — isolated north and south magnetic poles — and induced them to flow in crystals no…

Electricity has a new little sister: magnetricity. A team of physicists in England has created magnetic charges — isolated north and south magnetic poles — and induced them to flow in crystals no…

One thing you probably know about black holes, no matter how much science you took, is that they have never actually been seen.   Instead, the science consensus is that masses that sit at the…

A. Morrie Craig, a veterinary scientist at Oregon State University, has found that sheep can efficiently clean up explosives-contaminated soil, of which there are 1.3 million tons throughout the U.S…

A. Morrie Craig, a veterinary scientist at Oregon State University, has found that sheep can efficiently clean up explosives-contaminated soil, of which there are 1.3 million tons throughout the U.S…