SARS- severe acute respiratory syndrome Beijing, China, experienced the largest outbreak of SARS in the world with a total of 2,521 reported probable cases. The outbreak began March 5, 2003, with the…

As you know, when different species directly compete for the same finite resource, only the fitter will survive.  A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) says…

When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart.   It was so feared that the physics blended with the supernatural in the mid 1940s.  Luckily, Chuck…

Calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early…

We're big fans of oxytocin understanding.  It generally makes people nicer and  and relationships are difficult.   When you introduce stressful issues into relationships, such as home…

According to a 19th century nursery rhyme, the biological distinctions between males and females are thus: What are little boys made of?What are little boys made of? Frogs and snailsAnd puppy…

If you haven't heard of swine flu - Influenza A H1N1 - by now... well, you have unless you can't read, which means you aren't on this website.   Reading too many popular media articles may have…

By 2020, NIH investigators over 68 will outnumber those under 38.  Source: NIH For various reasons, scientific and unscientific, much had been made of the hiatus bctwecn man atnd the: rest of…

How about a dating service where your male partners are chosen for their fitness from the Siberian permafrost?  Creating long extinct life through harvested genetic remains is closer than you…

Summer is coming. The time of camping and icy cold drinks. I've been working on developing a freeze dried beer that comes in a small pack and rehydrates fully carbonated with all its alcohol…

The march toward understanding the etiology of autism took a giant step foward today. In a landmark genome-wide association study, published online today in Nature, researchers found…

These are hard times for evil guys like me, who are always willing to speculate wildly on particle physics results -only to secretly chuckle at the ripples their extrapolations make, knowing for a…

For those looking for a great family trip where you can enjoy the great outdoors and collect some fabulous fossils along the way, you need look no further than McAbee, a site near Cache Creek, just…

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We all know that we should eat our fruits and vegetables, but a new study suggests that they could also help prevent inflammation.  According to a study conducted by researchers from UC Davis in…

This isn't bad science.  It's a whole new ball game.  It's below the level of pre-school science.It's unterkindergartnischwissenschaft. Is Michael O'Leary a virus expert ? Michael O'Leary…

Richard Dawkins doesn’t usually strike me as being naïve, but one has to wonder when Dawkins abandons himself to the following sort of writing about his favorite topic these days, the incompatibility…

The Daytime Astronomer, Tues&Fri here, via RSS feed, and twitter @skydayTwo days ago, I woke up blind. Couldn't open my eyes-- lids were fused shut. For that early morning hour, I had to question…

LOS ANGELES, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Taking a cue from the number one women's wardrobe staple, the little black dress, Hurley and Bar Refaeli introduce the Little Black Bikini, a timeless essential…

A traditional Chinese extract from the bark of the magnolia tree could give you fresh breath and kill off the oral microbes that cause halitosis. I’m rather fond of magnolia’s both for their beauty…