Fun facts from the second day* of the Fifth International Symposium on Pacific Squids: 1. Which cephalopod has the smallest babies?2. Mucus is often used for protection, like the stuff in our noses,…

Forget booze, women and drugs, modern gangsters know where the big money is; government health care. 73 people have been charged with the most lucrative mafia scheme ever- setting up 118 phantom…

Forget booze, women and drugs, modern gangsters know where the big money is; government health care. 73 people have been charged with the most lucrative mafia scheme ever- setting up 118 phantom…

It's that time of year again... for Donors Choose! What is Donor's Choose? DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that allows needy classrooms from all over the country hook up with potential donors…

A man that fancies women with blond hair may announce such almost anywhere. Established scientists frequently work thinly veiled references to the proverbial sexiness of blondes into their talks, to…

Someone put a comment that do traditional medicines have some medicine to control stupidity. Brain function may be governed by various signaling molecules . I am no expert of medicine but what…

How do astronomers weigh stars?    In most cases stars that are trillions of miles away can't be measured, though astronomers can get a best estimate using numerical models. But in some…

Two women who took part in the world's first controlled study of a genetic screening test before IVF have given birth to healthy babies. The babies are the first deliveries in a pilot study of…

State laws require car insurance but can the Federal government force you to buy health insurance?   A federal judge in Michigan threw out a challenge last week but U.S. District Judge…

State laws require car insurance but can the Federal government force you to buy health insurance?   A federal judge in Michigan threw out a challenge last week but U.S. District Judge…

From Babbage at The Economist: "IT'S 'Out of Africa' meets 'Pretty Woman'", says a screenwriter pitching her script to a studio exec in the legendary eight-minute tracking shot that opens Robert…

From Babbage at The Economist: "IT'S 'Out of Africa' meets 'Pretty Woman'", says a screenwriter pitching her script to a studio exec in the legendary eight-minute tracking shot that opens Robert…

The American Chemical Society is not new to disliking New Media - like all businesses, they would like to be self-perpetuating and that means people have to give them money for memberships and get a…

Step away from the beaker, Mr. Communications Teacher, especially if you suffer from science envy. Galena Park High School students, 150 or so, had to be evacuated when a beaker of chemicals burst in…

Step away from the beaker, Mr. Communications Teacher, especially if you suffer from science envy. Galena Park High School students, 150 or so, had to be evacuated when a beaker of chemicals burst in…

Want to chase insurers out of your business?    Interpret rules so that families can buy a policy for a child only when the child gets sick, meaning costs will skyrocket for everyone else…

Want to chase insurers out of your business?    Interpret rules so that families can buy a policy for a child only when the child gets sick, meaning costs will skyrocket for everyone else…

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna in the department of physics of  Politecnico di Torino says she has discovered geoglyphs, essentially earthwork graphic designs carved into the landscape, near Lake…

Quite in advance with respect to the stated goals of its 2010 collider program, the Large Hadron Collider has produced yesterday night the instantaneous luminosity of 10^32 cm^-2 s^-1 in the core of…

Human presence in space enable us to do more than just observe Earth from a far. We develop space technology that come in handy here on Earth in numerous applications. Or, as is so touchingly…