When it comes to how they raise their children, mothers do things the way their mothers did, according to a new study that looked at parenting practices across two generations. Fathers don't seem to…

If you’re serious about pursuing an extended education in science, you may want to set your sights on one of the U.S. campuses that have been identified as having the best science graduate programs.…

One of the current questions for the future of space exploration is whether to return to the moon, or just head to Mars. Should we return somewhere we’ve been before? Or just strike out toward…

I have often found reference to medieval and early modern folks most helpful in debugging things that have bugged me since I did science when I was a student in the Sixties (for me they did not swing…

The Principle of Maximal Aging - Capturing the Essence of Relativity Ever wondered what is the longest path from A to B? I will give you a definite answer in a minute. Stay tuned.  We…

Cats have a reputation for being smart but dogs deserve more respect, says canine researcher Stanley Coren, PhD, of the University of British Columbia, who spoke on dog psychology (seriously)…

The hunt for dark energy is on and ways to find it, such as weak gravitational lensing and baryon acoustic oscillation, hold great promise but are as yet unproven.   Supernovae studies, which…

Los alumnos deberán analizar información reciente en los temas indicados en el programa. Al finalizar el curso serán capaces de comprender la relación que existe entre los distintos tipos del…

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1.  Greek fire ain't what it used to be.  If you're a student of history, you know that Greek fire  (πῦρ…

Robert Wald has formulated QFT in curved space time in terms of it's algebra of observables on a manifold.  In doing so he has, perhaps unintentionally, provided framework in which very…

If you’re a Twit... [um, no...] if you like Tweety... [still no...] if you’re a Twitter user [there, that works] you might have been frustrated on Thursday, when Twitter had service problems. So,…

I've noticed that my readership numbers are lower in summer, often only half as much as usual.  Bearing in mind I only launched in Spring, there was a noticeable drop as we hit (especially) July…

This link http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/christopherhowse/100002162/stone-ag... shows an interesting piece of stone age ware from Northern Spain that has been investigated by the University of…

Do guys like Bernie Madoff do what they do because of greed ... or ego?    A Florida State professor says it's the latter.    It makes some sense because it takes a certain drive…

We've all heard how the wheel is one of man's greatest inventions, and there are many theories or ideas regarding how it was achieved.  Certainly it seems rather plausible that rolling logs…

The Struggle for Existence was the title Charles Darwin gave to Chapter Three of On The Origin of Species, and he went to some trouble to explain exactly what he meant by this struggle. Throughout…

Take a number. Take a second number. Add both together to produce a third. Again, add the last two numbers to produce the next. Repeat ad infinitum. What can be more boring? Well, the simple sequence…

With Big Pharma allegedly “cooperating” with President Obama’s health care reforms, and Congress wanting to limit drug advertising, might it pay to refresh our memories about how we got here in the…

Take note - the world will come to an end in November. It will probably look somewhat like this: Anyway, it's too bad we won't make it to 2012 to see if the Mayans were right, but I really don't…

The existence of a Higher Being, whom we commonly refer to as God, has always been a highly debated topic. On one hand are the religious people, firmly believing that God is watching over us from the…