In the modern era we can detect anything in anything. Being able to detect in parts per billion, trillion and even quadrillion means that if an epidemiologist can "correlate" a chemical to harm in a…

After a month of intense travel, which among other things included attendance to the MODE Workshop in Crete and the EUCAIF conference in Sardinia, I am back to northern Sweden. Besides significantly…

My June 28 column on the Middle East drew a comment concerning Palestinians ejected from their homes by the post-WWII influx of European Jewish refugees to what’s now Israel. Eighty years after the…

If you need any new evidence that science is just another arm of politics, look to the switch in the Republican party once President Donald Trump embraced former Natural Resources Defense Council…

Colleges and universities are struggling to stay afloat. The reasons are numerous: declining numbers of college-age students in much of the country, rising tuition at public institutions as state…

Once a decade, I buy a pair of good sunglasses. I didn't know I was doing that, it wasn't intentional, I only realized it when I bought a pair of Persol sunglasses in 2005 that my wife mentioned it…

Once a decade, I buy a pair of good sunglasses. I didn't know I was doing that, it wasn't intentional, I only realized it when I bought a pair of Persol sunglasses in 2005 that my wife mentioned it…

More than 60% of traffic collisions at intersections involve left turns. Some U.S. cities – including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Birmingham, Alabama – are restricting left turns. Dr. Vikash…

The year is 2028. After Congress voted that he need not heed Supreme Court decisions, Donald J. Trump declared himself king. After denouncing as fake news the perfectly true fact that he…

People dedicated to the art of grilling often choose lump charcoal – actual pieces of wood that have been turned into charcoal – over briquettes, which are compressed charcoal dust with other…

In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to be banned so convincingly that in 1917, with Democratic control of both houses of…

Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't get more pro-science by becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services, he instead acts like his beliefs in The…

In less than a week, France is implementing a ban on cigarettes in some public spaces, like near schools or on beaches. While this may not be a public health win right away, any more than boycotting…

In less than a week, France is implementing a ban on cigarettes in some public spaces, like near schools or on beaches. While this may not be a public health win right away, any more than boycotting…

The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing. Many of the grant…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released the first image using the largest camera in the world. The 3200-megapixel resolution wide field of view Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released the first image using the largest camera in the world. The 3200-megapixel resolution wide field of view Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera…

Let’s bury the dangerous, lazy, and politically convenient idea that there exists a distinct species of person called a "nuclear scientist." There is no such thing. There are physicists. Some…

In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill' - a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return - wanted to…

Scholars have developed a method to encode binary and Morse code messages in ice. A 'message in a bubble' has limited practical utility, information storage in Antarctica and the Arctic is…