Among the great disappointments of modern life is the fact that something as fun as a giant inflatable slide springing from the side of a massive flying machine exists—but may only be used in near…

Microfinancing is a term most commonly used to describe the financial services provided to help people out of poverty. Now the term is being applied to research projects funded by numerous small…

Microfinancing is a term most commonly used to describe the financial services provided to help people out of poverty. Now the term is being applied to research projects funded by numerous small…

Can neuroscience help a magazine sell more copies?   New Scientist wants to find out, so they teamed up with NeuroFocus, who bill themselves the world's largest neuromarketing company, to make a…

A Kick In The Buttress Buttressing Imagine a retaining wall in sloping ground.  Upslope there is soil.  Downslope there is a piece of artificially created flat ground.  The whole point…

I can't speak for any of you but the only thing worse than going to a coffee shop and not being able to find a seat because the mid-1990s fad of 'free Wi-Fi' in there made slackers hang out all day…

I can't speak for any of you but the only thing worse than going to a coffee shop and not being able to find a seat because the mid-1990s fad of 'free Wi-Fi' in there made slackers hang out all day…

The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) has produced the ISAPS Biennial Global Survey(TM) of plastic surgeons and procedures in the top 25 countries and regions - representing…

Barchester Green Investment Limited (Barchester),  which bills itself as the UK's leading ethical and environmental financial adviser, released their list of the current 'Heroes and Villains'…

Fabio Casati and his collaborators at LiquidPublication, an EU-financed research project, want to change how you do science.  Namely by allowing you to do more of it, instead of sifting through…

No one here at Science 2.0 really noticed the Scienceblogs Pepsigate thing, being busy writing about science, but I lurk in a number of other places and, since Scienceblogs is the Big Kahuna in…

Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims proof of Millenium Prize problem P=NP, and (potential) $1M prize (pending peer review)! This deceptively simple little bugger (think e=mc^2) has, until now,…

What do you do when you get stuck with no pay by a crappy publisher?  Not much, except never work without a contract again.    Freelancer DeLene Beeland dispels the notion that it…

What do you do when you get stuck with no pay by a crappy publisher?  Not much, except never work without a contract again.    Freelancer DeLene Beeland dispels the notion that it…

Historically, the medical approach to curing the incurable effects of tragic spinal cord injuries--such as the case made famous by America's classic super hero, Christopher Reeve--has been to affect…

In the It-From-Bit series I have reported extensively on Verlinde's 'entropic gravity' concept. I have also provided you with an illustrative 'mikado universe' picture of entropic gravity. This got…

The Anatomy Of A DiscoveryPetermann Glacier Ice Tongue Calving 2010 Science20.com is a science site. Now, I could blabber and bluster about how I once advised Margaret Thatcher1.  Which I did.…

Free Energy I have written a great deal about global warming, climate change and have made several successful predictions - notably the recent calving of an ice island at the outlet of the Petermann…

This week will include the peak evenings for the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although sky watchers have already seen a few exciting fireballs already, August 12 and 13 are expected to be the…

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology say they have unraveled the mystery of why human embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells undergo apoptosis…