There are far too many theories about the best way to teach kids.  Dr. Seuss had the right idea: make it fun.  It's good to have a child actually beg you to read something out loud. Never…

Warner Music Group tries to protect property it doesn't even own: In the first installment of a planned video blog of their American tour, A23’s Tom Shear recorded a nine-and-one-half minute video…

Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance on Entropy and the Meaning of Life: We know that entropy increases as the universe evolves. But why, on the road from the simple and low-entropy early universe to the…

Understanding Climate : #2 - Earth Air Water Fire Climate science is a cross-disciplinary study.  I have listed some of the disciplines in Understanding Climate : #1 - Components Of Climate and…

Autism and your normal mind -the connection. Have you ever been going along having a chat and suddenly your stopped cold?  You then see a "minds eye" thought of uncle joe (or something else).…

Morning Science Quote The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black…

I had previously speculated on how electric and magnetic fields generated by individual neurons may be able to transmit information to other neurons with which they are not in synaptic contact. From…

The "humble hooter" could be added to the list of features used to identify an individual, according to scientists at the University of Bath. Researchers created a system called PhotoFace to scan the…

This weekend, over 10,000 chemists will descent upon San Francisco for the American Chemical Society national meeting.  For those of us that are presenting at the conference, we’re spending this…

Have you ever seen a galaxy ? I mean, not a picture of one. The real thing. A picture is a representation of reality, and as such it conveys to our senses only a pale suggestion of the stimulation…

The high-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Central Chile last month closed one of the two remaining seismic gaps at the South American plate boundary. After the quake in Concepción, the…

In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from The Wistar Institute suggest that mice that lack the p21 gene gain the ability to regenerate lost or…

Until recently, it was thought that white dwarfs could not exceed what is known as the Chandrasekhar limit, a critical mass equaling about 1.4 times that of the Sun, before exploding in a supernova.…

A new genus and species of carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania, Fedexia striegeli, provides the earliest widespread evidence of terrestrial Vertebrates, say researchers from Carnegie…

If you're trying to pick winners for this year's NCAA basketball tournament, ignore a team's seeding, which is statistically insignificant after the Sweet Sixteen, a new Journal of Gambling Business…

Babies may be born with a predisposition to dance and find music - specifically, rhythm and tempo - more engaging than speech, according to a study of infants aged between five months and two years…

Scientists have an emerging interest in lectins, naturally occurring chemicals in plants, because of their ability to halt the chain of reaction that leads to a variety of infections. Now,…

Writing in Nature Biotechnology, an international team of scientists say they have  transferred broad spectrum resistance against some important plant diseases across different plant families.…

New archaeological evidence recovered at Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern PrePyrenees, Catalunya, Spain) suggests that 'modern humans' first appeared on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle…

Environmentally friendly products are everywhere, but consumers aren't purchasing them because they care about the environment, according to a new University of Minnesota study. "Green purchases are…