I was quite saddened today to hear the bad news that Uli Baur passed away prematurely yesterday. Uli was a professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, and his research interests focused on…

Sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is a condition that causes deafness in 40,000 Americans each year, usually in early middle-age.    A new treatment has been developed SSHL, say researchers…

In reviewing this article, I couldn't help but notice the problems in how this information was reported, so that it became quite apparent why the general public perpetually misunderstands or…

Physics hunts for the ultimate theory; at least that is what the media and people like L. Susskind and M. Tegmark tell us incessantly what physics is all about (god particle, ultimate string theory…

Will polar bears survive in a warmer world?   New evidence says their numbers are likely to dwindle.  As polar bears lose habitat due to global warming, biologists say, they will be forced…

Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen have published the results of the world's largest diet study, called called Diogenes. Like anything obvious, the formula…

I was 16 or so when my dad listened to me tell him about the dream I had the night before. I laughed it off and thought my dreams were for entertainment purposes only. Then he suggested that the next…

The time is now. If you are going to fantasize about the possibilities of an extended Tevatron running and how likely it is that your favourite physics model may be tested by CDF and DZERO, you are…

Over at the Autism Blogs Directory, we have over 400 blogs and websites representing a diversity of views and opinions on autism and what it means to the individuals who have it and the family…

Women may regard love and affection and consideration as most important in a mate, but if research in African cichlid fish applies to humans, they are suppressing a more primitive instinct to like…

Climatology might replace economics as the 'gloomy science'. Projections that the lousy economy might mean a slowdown in fossil fuels were cause for joy among activists, without realizing that people…

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Yesterday I mentioned David Cameron's plan to introduce a national happiness index in the UK. This is not a new idea, and surveys have been going on for decades, and in 2003 a study looked at some of…

Imagine you're navigating a three-dimensional maze. Believe it or not, in this situation, both men and women think. Only, women think with the distinctly human right prefrontal cortex, while men use…

It seems a silly question to ask, given the self-evident answer: we know that all beliefs and opinions are not equally valid. Obviously, it's important to acknowledge that the person who believe…

MakeZine shows (not just tells, but shows) that 2 square meters of sunlight, focused, will melt anything on Earth and NASA points out that The Sun Steals Comets from Other Stars So I suggest the…

This has been hitting the news a lot over here.  I'll probably write more about this as I read/think more about it.  I'm just free-writing my ideas now so don't consider this my definitive…

"I learned the stopping-rule principle from Professor Barnard in conversation in the summer of 1952. Frankly, I then thought it a scandal that anyone in the profession could advance an idea so…

In a new study, cancer biologists show that restoring the protein p53's function in mice with early lung cancer has no effect in tumor development but restoring p53 function later may prevent more…

Some of the universe's most massive galaxies may have formed billions of years earlier than current scientific models predict, according to findings in the Astrophysical Journal.  That…