An investigative piece so explosive, no book company marketing hyperbole can be left out. "After reading BIG FAT LIES you will never trust the government again - Dr John Briffa" Hannah Sutter says…

The criteria used to assign patients to specific psychiatric disease categories are set out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric…

You may think this is an odd claim from Think Training Development Limited, a company that specializes in Leadership Training, but it got them on a site with a million readers so, like a magician…

Vigorous two-party competition and modest salaries for lawmkaers are key to preventing pork barrel legislation and other bills that benefit only one lawmaker's constituents, finds a new study of…

Primitive stars are thought to have formed from material forged shortly after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago and are mainly observed in the Milky Way. But now researchers are reporting that…

The southern limit of permafrost in the James Bay Region in northern Quebec, Canada is now 130 kilometers further north than it was 50 years ago, according to two researchers from the Department of…

An analysis of the skeletal remains found in Carthaginian burial urns could finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest…

Natural selection – the force that drives evolution – acts not only on whole organisms and individual genes, but also on gene networks, according to a new study appearing in Nature this week.The…

Biologists have struggled for many years to explain how it is possible that some people who carry a mutated gene don't express the trait or condition associated with the mutation. This common but…

Time for my irregular not-semi-annual roundup of recent science webtoons.  Today we have a pair of comics detailing the difference between Movie Science and Real Science.  Enjoy! AlexTues…

As 70 percent of the agriculture based population lives in villages where  the only accessible source of fuel is wood fuel, cow dung cakes and agricultural waste material like wheat straw,…

The phenomenon, by which perihelion of elliptical orbital path of a planet appears to rotate around a central body, is known as the precession of the orbital path. Since the precession of mercury’s…

I remember very well the very first meeting of the Heavy Flavour Working Group in CDF that I attended in the summer of 1992. I was a summer student back then, and my understanding of spoken English…

Marc Morano - Global Superhero In one of the most philanthropic gestures ever from a mere political journo-lobbyist, Marc Morano has taken upon his own shoulders the entire burden of global climate…

My colleague, the Tortoise Cat, always attempts to alert me whenever a lone wild rabbit prances by our back steps in the wee-most moments of the dawn. But I have been too slow, so far, to catch even…

Markets work well when there’s a chain from wholesaler to retailer to customer…and back. If none of the customer payments makes it back to the wholesaler, soon there may be few to no wholesalers…

This link will bring you to my live Podcast video to an introduction to true ancient Bonsai . It is called "Bonsai Lesson #1"

Pachauri's IPCC report faces fresh questions | LONDON: The UN climate panel headed by Rajendra Pachauri faced fresh allegations with a British paper claiming that the data contained in its report…

This year's environmentally friendly exhibits include toys made of wood and innovative offers AFP, 16 February 2010, 08:34am IST NEW YORK: US toy makers are coming out of a long recession tunnel this…

As sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unwanted pregnancy rates continue to rise, the need for education about the use of condoms remains clear. Research has shown that consistent and correct…