Along with drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, a team of climate scientists says internationally coordinated research and field-testing on geoengineering the planet's atmosphere need to…

Whether prayer is supernatural or not, the common religious practice may generally benefit the Nine out of 10 Americans who say they pray. In a recent study appearing in Psychological Science,…

Haiti Event Supersite Established The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has set up a website page bringing together a welter of geological facts about the recent earthquake in Haiti, together with…

Newsday.com : Paywall Ain't Working The internet is a very powerful tool for education and for research.  At a click of a mouse button I can escape my parochial world-view and embark on a…

Photosynthesizing sea slugs take 'you are what you eat' to an extreme: by eating photosynthesizing algae, these "solar-powered" sea slugs are able to live off photosynthesis for months. How does this…

Post Glacial Eustatic Sea Level Rise Was The Danube The Location Of The Noah's Ark Flood? asks a scientificblogging.com news item. Was it the location of Noah's flood?  Doubtful, but it was the…

An article at the Science Codex requests  "Less hyperbole, please: Sea level has been rising and falling for the last 2,500 years". The tone is set with the opening quote from an Israeli…

I recently encountered the following chart as part of an argument that CO2 does not affect global temperatures. It instantly raised my suspicions because the temperature data is just too clean--I can…

Today my new book, “Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging,” was published, and I found myself digging around in a file box full of the origins of this book: my trip to Padua four years ago,…

As recently as few centuries ago, earth was believed to be the center of universe. All other observable celestial bodies were assumed to revolve around earth. Developments in geometry and mechanics…

When aliens come to Earth to investigate life here, they don’t simply beam up a specimen and start probing. (And they’re also, by the way, not disproportionately interested in the anus.) Only a…

Take 2 minutes with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and you too will know how to pee in space.  And the origins of shooting stars.   He starts with "when you go to the bathroom on…

Super-Science, NOT Fantasy! Science Fact: Scientists say building a time machine may be extremely difficult. But time travel is not against the laws of physics!  For thousands of years,…

Planet Earth's Vanishing Act Dr Frank Drake said the phasing out of analogue transmissions from television, radio and radar was making our planet electronically invisible from outer space. "I was…

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new material that could help with the remediation of nuclear waste that behaves much like a Venus Flytrap, permanently trapping only its desired…

Malaria and cholera take devastating tolls in the developing world. Mosquito-borne Malaria kills more than 1 million people annually and no vaccine currently exists. Cholera, a diarrheal illnessthat…

Historians at University College London say they have discovered part of an ancient Roman law code called the Codex Gregorianus, or Gregorian Code. The discovery was made after researchers pieced…

The January 12th earthquake in Haiti killed an estimated 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless. Now, researchers are returning to the island this week to determine whether the quake could…

A series of articles in the January 26 issue of PNAS illustrates recent progress in applying evolutionary theory to a range of questions in medicine and public health, and may lead to medical…

The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats facing. But the discovery of a previously unknown feedback shows that it has instead helped  shield this…