What we find at crime scenes and fossil sites is just as interesting as what is missing.  We see this play out in some of the freshwater sites of British Columbia. The Okanagan Highlands…

Evidence from the past provides a crytal ball for the future. A sediment core from 400m below the seabed of the Arctic Ocean showed that Fifty-five million years ago, deep in the Eocene, the…

At least once a year, Cosmo’s cover story is about how to have better, longer sex: a turgid treatise on positions and anatomy.  Our finest ladies’ mags are ignoring the obvious. To improve the…

Have we really stopped evolving? In Cosmos magazine, Steve Jones argues that human evolution is coming to an end: The question I have is: will human evolution really continue? I think the…

When a fake pandemic is being generated by media corporations having a slow news week, fake medicine is sure to pop up and take advantage of it.   The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great…

Well, the air in Minnesota is pretty clean, and I grew up there, so I'm identifying  with the rankings there instead of my current state of residence, which got surprisingly low grades. The…

Though we all know that nature has provided us with many vitamins, minerals and variety of  trace elements that are necessary for our survival, however, little we know that there are certain…

Our Society is a civilized society and we proudly say so. Living in a civilized society and calling ourselves as civilized people, we really need to behave that we are civilized in the true sense of…

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…