Bill Nye "the Science Guy" and Emmy award winner,  is opening a 'climate lab' at the Chabot Space&Science Center in Oakland.  It is designed for 10-year-olds but, really, isn't all…

Burt Rutan, who designed the first private manned rocket to reach space, has announced he will retire next year.    Though everyone in aviation knew him well (including this blogger's…

You've all heard of global warming but global dimming has gotten less attention - because it can be confusing that cooling would be bad when warming is bad. Global dimming is when fossil fuel burning…

Bill Nye "the Science Guy" and Emmy award winner,  is opening a 'climate lab' at the Chabot Space&Science Center in Oakland.  It is designed for 10-year-olds but, really, isn't all…

Concerned about rising political attacks regarding climate change research, 700 members of the American Geophysical Union are going to wade further into the political muck and campaign against…

Concerned about rising political attacks regarding climate change research, 700 members of the American Geophysical Union are going to wade further into the political muck and campaign against…

It seems not everyone is in love with The Steve. Inon Beracha is the CEO of PrimeSense, the company that created the hardware fueling Microsoft's Kinect device and Apple was the first he wanted to…

It seems not everyone is in love with The Steve. Inon Beracha is the CEO of PrimeSense, the company that created the hardware fueling Microsoft's Kinect device and Apple was the first he wanted to…

"Far from being conservative, the Republican stance on global warming shows a stunning appetite for risk", writes Bracken Hendricks in the Washington Post.    First, of course, is the error…

If you are reading this site, you already know "Battlestar Galactica" is the greatest science-fiction show of all time.  Yes, yes, "Farscape" was terrific and "Star Trek" set the standard but…

Can plasma be beautiful?   Surely, anything can, but physicists are luckier than most because when they probe the mysteries of plasma, the fourth state of matter, they often discover phenomena…

The big knock on huge wind or solar farms in developed countries is whose back yard the new power lines will run through.   Off-shore wind farms or solar farms in remote deserts may be a…

Voter turnout was huge in 2008 - some of that was due to advertising; since Sen. Obama did not limit adhere to campaign finance reform rules the way Sen. McCain did, Obama was able to raise and spend…

Know why vegetarians are so angry?  They don't eat meat, it seems.  So this Thanksgiving, grab the turkey leg and tear off a hunk of flesh with your teeth and rationalize that evolutionary…

Continuing my series on the history of batteries, we now more on to batteries with nickel-based electrodes. 1899 saw the development of the nickel-cadmium battery by Waldemar Jungner. He also…

Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.  The discovery could mean that people needing blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of…

Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.  The discovery could mean that people needing blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of…

In 2006, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer released a state of the art clinical study of a new drug designed to treat high cholesterol, torcetrapid. The results were puzzling. The compound lowered low…

Holy crap on a cracker. Here's propaganda and bull handed to us on a platter. You can't dress this up, make it pretty, pretend it to be anything other than an assault on reason and reality.Mercola…

MAFIA life used to be simple; whether you liked "Morte Alle Francia Italia Anela" or "Morte Alle Francese Italiani Avanti"(1)  they both meant kicking the snot out of the French, who had a pesky…