Future biology may rely more heavily on ancient math - namely algebra - according to researchers at Sweet Briar College and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech. Future…

Plancks Law is a well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects. Some physicists have predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close…

If you're an ordinary, law-abiding citizen in the UK, you can't own a gun.  So who owns them?  Criminals, of course, making crimes easier to commit.   But it isn't just organized crime…

Is organic food better for you than conventional food?   It's the second most asked question we get here about food, the first being 'What is the difference between organic and inorganic food?…

It’s 40 years this week since the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Analysis of the tapes shows that Neil Armstrong did say “small step for a man” – and not “small step for man” – though he said…

If you live in New York and like to feel a part of the local intelligentsia, you simply have to read The New Yorker. Which I do, regularly, every week. I can't get through the whole thing, so I…

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny.1. In an overhyped analysis certain to make biologists want to reach for their pistols, it has been declared that women are…

Individualism is the political philosophy or ideology that emphasizes independence and self-reliance. Individualists advance the idea of realizing one's goals and desires, while opposing most…

Besides the usual share of random readers who google something and get directed here by mere chance (to be read: by the sheer amount of valuable information I have posted here), this blog is read by…

Ministry Of Silly Tweets It could only happen in Britain.  Or the U.S.  Or just about anywhere where you find bureaucrats, which is just about everywhere, I suppose. A Whitehall…

Now we can contain whales in our starships!(sorry for just pasting and running, really busy...) "Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that's nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet…

This really takes the cake - or, the rice krispies, as it were. As Josh so cleverly described, General Mills took one for the team when FDA sent a warning letter about the claim on GM's Cheerios box…

Vindication! For all of you fake-bake tanners in high school who spent countless hours and money in tanning beds thinking you looked so much better with tan skin, there is an additional layer of…

Computer trends are interesting to follow[1]; they keep changing, and, as with clothing, the chic trends this year soon become passé, replaced by newer ones. It often seems that it’s really the words…

A new study in Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, one of the current puzzles in our understanding of galaxy formation. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are small and…

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were immortalized in the short story "Runaround" in 1942.   In it he formalized the rules that all positronic robots must obey. Two engineers think Asimov's…

Scientists have been thinking increasingly about whether or not animals in the ocean might play a role in larger-scale ocean mixing, says John Dabiri, a Caltech bioengineer. Ocean mixing is the…

The number of large-diameter trees that Yosemite National Park is famous far are on the decline, and warmer temperatures appear to be the culprit. Their number have declined 24 percent in the park…

The number of large-diameter trees that Yosemite National Park is famous far are on the decline, and warmer temperatures appear to be the culprit. Their number have declined 24 percent in the park…

Professor Wei Sha from Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering is concerned with the combat safety of vehicles that use titanium alloys. Obviously the best…