French anti-science activists Sherpa, France Nature Environnement, and Mighty Earth are blaming French companies for causing the Amazon fires, because France imports soy and meat from South America.…

Prevailing sexual economics belief posits that women have less sexual bargaining power as they age. But Baumeister and Vohs' 2004 Sexual Economic Theory (it's a proper name, like String Theory, even…

What is old hype is new again, which is to say population bombs, starvation in Africa, nuclear plant meltdowns, and atomic destruction because an aggressive American president makes a wholesome…

The U.S Government Accountability Office (G.A.O.) has had NASA on its High Risk list since 1990, due to persistent cost inflation and missed schedules of its programs. Long before banks and General…

A critical examination of the three main claims made by anti TMT protestors.  Here are brief rebuttals to their sacredness and sovereignty claims and lastly a scientific reason why building…

Aspirin is fine for headaches but like much of epidemiological correlation that suggests cause and effect, link aspirin to fewer heart attacks has been nothing but a subsidy for companies. New…

Insurance companies charge more at age 16 than age 21 because inexperience and youth make people more accident-prone. This goes for robots also.  ROBOpilot, developed by DZYNE Technologies as an…

Insurance companies charge more at age 16 than age 21 because inexperience and youth make people more accident-prone. This goes for robots also.  ROBOpilot, developed by DZYNE Technologies as an…

This is a story running in the news, even on the BBC website, which is scaring a few people. There isn't any prediction of an accelerating population collapse. Indeed our population is increasing and…

The colorful Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) occur when charged particles from the sun interact with gases in Earth’s during darker winter months in high-latitude regions like Alaska, Scandinavia,…

Late in the prehistoric Silurian Period, around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event wiped 23 percent of all marine animals from the face of the planet. For years, scientists…

We hear a lot about a crisis in organ donations but a whole lot of patients who died waiting for transplants got organs offered, but their transplant teams declined - and someone lower on the list…

If a number of people who vape marijuana report detrimental effects, is it fair for government and state agencies to sound the alarm about e-cigarettes, the device, rather than what's in it? …

If a number of people who vape marijuana report detrimental effects, is it fair for government and state agencies to sound the alarm about e-cigarettes, the device, rather than what's in it? …

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine laid it on the table recently; to him, Pluto is a planet. News outlets are calling him out, saying the "official governing body" does not agree. The Paris-based…

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine laid it on the table recently; to him, Pluto is a planet. News outlets are calling him out, saying the "official governing body" does not agree. The Paris-based…

Today I am back from the 8th edition of the ICNFP conference, which finished yesterday in Kolymbari (Crete). This event is very interesting because of its wide scope, bringing together physicists…

Over 200 children were sacrificed by the Chimu culture in Peru to try and appease the gods and stave off, you guessed it, climate change, according to a recent find.  Experts say the remain…

Over 200 children were sacrificed by the Chimu culture in Peru to try and appease the gods and stave off, you guessed it, climate change, according to a recent find.  Experts say the remain…

At the beginning of this decade, there were clear lines in science denial. If you denied evolution or global warming, you were more likely to vote Republican, and if you denied medical, agricultural,…