Join 10,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors on Sept 25, 2010 for (click logo below for signup) ... The third annual massive community festival at San Jose Reid Hillview Airport, brings together…

All you cynics out there can rest easy that this is not a cynical attempt to cash in on that white-board job-quitting bit of fakery. Did we call that white board chick as a hoax first?  I…

All you cynics out there can rest easy that this is not a cynical attempt to cash in on that white-board job-quitting bit of fakery. Did we call that white board chick as a hoax first?  I…

A study in the latest JAMA using data from two nationally representative surveys indicates that hearing loss among U.S. adolescents increased by about 30 percent in a 12 year period ending 2006, with…

Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #3 The NSIDC has just issued an update report for August - August 17, 2010North by NorthwestThe end of summer is approaching in the Arctic; temperatures are dropping…

In my take on the classic fable of the Boy who Cried “Wolf” a young boy thinks he sees a menacing wolf and cries out to the townspeople, “Wolf!” The townspeople come to examine the danger and find no…

Ah, summer, the time to neglect thinking and just build crap.  So, much as with the DIY Clean Room, I started gathering bits to make the DIY Vacuum chamber. I'm building a vacuum chamber to make…

Princeton scientists say they may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies; sponge-like creatures that were living in ocean reefs 650 million years ago. The shelly fossils, found beneath a…

Harken back to the dark days of 2003, when vampire sagas were not yet all the rage.  NPR has the details on vampire public relations blitzes in the last part of this decade. To: VampsPRFr:…

Harken back to the dark days of 2003, when vampire sagas were not yet all the rage.  NPR has the details on vampire public relations blitzes in the last part of this decade. To: VampsPRFr:…

The Lost Skeleton Returns is available on Amazon.com today (you just saw the link) so if you go for awesome science humor, that's pure heaven.   If you go for mediocre science humor, you can…

The Lost Skeleton Returns is available on Amazon.com today (you just saw the link) so if you go for awesome science humor, that's pure heaven.   If you go for mediocre science humor, you can…

How long will it take for a book on Hauser to appear in print? The plot usually goes like this: A laboratory publishes its research findings in a journal—possibly even a breakthrough in its field.…

How long will it take for a book on Hauser to appear in print? The plot usually goes like this: A laboratory publishes its research findings in a journal—possibly even a breakthrough in its field.…

Is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) too often confused with immaturity or just young age?  It may be, according to new research by a Michigan State University economist published…

Science has a long history of being multinational and has long been a way to bridge cultures and balance the public good with private gain.    Science, being about excellence, has zero…

Charity, What Does It Mean? - Sadaqa, Matlab Kya He? An essay on the meaning of the term 'charity', with scientific, philosophical and historical discussion. "There is no person who does not have the…

Donald Light, professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, says the pharmaceutical industry is a market for 'lemons' -  a market in which the…

Being married has been associated with improving health but a new study suggests that having that long-term bond alters hormones in a way that reduces stress - but you don't need to buy a ring just…

A new Rice University study's side-by-side comparison of 10 human genetic models to determine when 'mitochondrial Eve'(mtEve), the maternal ancestor of all living humans, lived uses a very different…