Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have discovered a brand new species of bacterium found only in the Gullmarsfjord north of Gothenburg in Sweden. The new species has been dubbed…

Paleontologists have discovered a plant-eating dinosaur that live 70 to 80 million years ago. The new species, Texacephale langstoni,  was about as big as a medium sized dog. The discovery…

A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggest that solar wind may charge polar lunar craters to hundreds of volts as it flows over natural obstructions on the moon. The findings are…

Attempting to eradicate disease is not a good use of public health dollars, say researchers writing in Proceedings of The Royal Society B. Instead, the emphasis should be placed on reducing the…

I garden for a living, besides writing. My last blog referred to bamboo growing in a rock garden outside my back door. But my urban gardening mentor has informed me this plant is not bamboo.  It…

Possibly some of the more hotly contested fishing grounds in the world occur around the Falkland Islands, just off the Atlantic coast of South America. The islands themselves are a point of…

Arctic Tipping Points - #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares This series is a follow-on to my 3-part series Arctic Ice 2010.  It began with part #1: Background And Recent History.  In Arctic…

Selective hearing- How many times have you heard that term? It might be totally false!  We are, as humans simply thinking in pictures. I know none of this has been in a text book before, the…

Selective hearing- How many times have you heard that term? It might be totally false!  We are, as humans simply thinking in pictures. I know none of this has been in a text book before, the…

In Writing As Superpower I outlined how writing is for the eye, at the expense of the hands, despite the fact that our brains may have evolved to comprehend speech. We still prefer to 'listen' with…

Arctic Tipping Points - #3: More About Feedback This series is a follow-on to my 3-part series Arctic Ice 2010.  It begins with part #1: Background And Recent History.  In Arctic Tipping…

Analogies are a powerful way to explain complicated scientific concepts. I use them as much as I can whenever I describe particle physics in this blog or when I give a outreach talk in a school.…

Eyjafjallajökull, Gígjökull, Jökulhlaup, Gosmökkur The world is suddenly faced with the need to learn how to pronounce Islenska, the Icelandic language. With much of European airspace closed due to…

Well, so much to add. CERP is going on the web. Soon you will be able to see what it is without having to wade through a few hundred pages :) When it comes online I will post a link, probably will be…

It is coming – so we might as well prepare for it psychologically. Researchers who manipulate DNA and RNA, and all of the incredible tools of creation that accompany them, have become so accomplished…

It is ignored here.There is even disdain for ithttp://www.science20.com/evolutionary_economics/return_karl_popper_socia... It has limits, but these are due to the difficulty of the problem, not the…

Team Plans To Row To The North Pole - Media Claims A team plans to row to the magnetic pole next year. Proving once more, if proof be needed, that the media can't publish a story without…

Arctic Tipping Points - #2: Some Feedback Mechanisms In part #1: Background And Recent History I wrote: The global warming trend observed in direct measurements and a very wide range of proxy data…

by Amanda Siekierski (student) I once read that "age doesn't matter, unless you're a cheese." This somewhat comical phrase is referring to the process of cheese production where various milks,…

By Ladd (DePaul University student) Have you ever broke a bone before and did it take multiple months for it to heal? Did you wish that there was a way that you could just "glue" it back together so…