Volcano in Iceland Grounds UK Flights Edit: for latest updates please see comments, below. A volcanic ash cloud in UK airspace has left tens of thousands of travellers returning from Easter holidays…

UEA CRU Scientists Cleared Of Malpractice Allegations An independent panel of scientists has cleared scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit of the malpractice allegations…

Simon Singh Wins Legal Battle Good news for lovers of freedom of speech across the planet. The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) this morning dropped its libel claim against Dr Singh. Thanks to…

I’ve often written about technology that will help us do everyday things, and I almost always advocate technology that helps, while leaving the choices with us, the control in our hands. Mostly, I…

This is just to mention that I have been blogging for this site for exactly one year. During the last twelve months here I have observed a few changes from the old blog which I ran at wordpress.…

Have a look at the figure on the left. It shows the number of visits to this site broken down in hours of the day -the time of the server used by the visitor. The statistics of each bar is sufficient…

Life and health insurance companies are greedy, for-profit enterprises that do not care about public health, according to Harvard researchers writing in the American Journal of Public Health. Why…

Legislation introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) would require federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide…

Scientists cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a new article in Science. While we may have been spared some of the…

Through the study of a popular Martian meteorite's age, University of Houston researchers have uncovered important details about the history of volcanic activity on Mars. ALH84001 is a thoroughly…

New research conducted by Cardiff University scientists suggests that good parenting is still the best way to prevent teenage smoking. The three-year-study of 3,500 11 to 15 year-olds found that…

Carried by winds high up in the atmosphere, a massive cloud of ash from the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in southwest Iceland has led to the closure of airports throughout the UK and…

If church attendance is any indication, Americans are as religious as they were 30 years ago. But the makeup of the nation's congregations has undergone significant changes during that same stretch,…

Chemical analysis of a stalagmite found in the mountainous Buckeye Creek basin of West Virginia suggests that native Americans contributed a significant level of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere…

A study published in Environmental Research Letters suggests a link between low solar activity and jet streams could explain why regions North East of the Atlantic Ocean might experience more…

The 84 members of the Donner Party, trapped by a Sierra Nevada snowstorm on their way to California, did not resort to cannibalism, according to a new analysis of bones found at their Alder Creek…

Personalized genetics is hot in the news right now, but in fact we're generally terrible at using genotypes to predict who is going to get a disease. One villain here is the phenomenon known as…

Recent comments on a certain article (hey, what does that green button do?) about the future of neural interface technologies have brought up some valid ethical arguments.  Because I didn't want…

Ethanol is used to make alcohol, distillation of the mixture leads to the isolation of pure ethanol, a good alternative to petrol. there is a debate among ecologists and scientists whether to use…

CO2 As A Greenhouse Gas A greenhouse keeps an air volume warm mainly by enclosing it as fixed volume of air.  From that perspective, the term 'greenhouse gas' is a somewhat unfortunate choice of…