No one expects much of the social sciences, so a heavy reliance on undergraduate psychology student surveys to draw conclusions and resulting lack of reproducibility is dismissed, but the National…

COLUMBUS, Ohio--Right now, astronomers are viewing a ball of hot gas billions of light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns. At its heart is an object a little…

Pasadena, CA--A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Benjamin Shappee, Nidia Morrell, and Ian Thompson, has discovered the most-luminous supernova ever observed, called ASAS-SN-15lh. Their…

Dietary guidelines used to be a relatively easy process. They were considered authoritative, mainstream media dutifully portrayed them as such because they had government backing, and people obeyed.…

Insects exhibit breathing patterns called discontinuous gas-exchange cycles that include periods of little to no release of carbon dioxide to the environment. Researchers who studied the respiratory…

Brain training has come into the spotlight with Tuesday’s announcement by the Federal Trade Commission that the popular website Lumosity will be forced to pay a $2 million settlement for making false…

Farmers jumped in because higher prices due to clever marketing meant higher profits - but demand for feed caused expenses to rise.  That has meant consolidation because smaller farmers cannot…

Lisa Jackson is leaving the EPA, she has announced, and virtually no one is going to be disappointed. The EPA was created to be anti-business so no one can really claim that being anti-business is a…

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Science writing resists metaphors because no one seems to a Science journalists don't think much of science bloggers (1) and they have a good reason, at least given the bulk of blogging.  It is…

Progressives shriek "false equivalence!" every time the numerous anti-science positions of people on their side of the aisle are mentioned, but that is a reactionary defense mechanism - a large part…

The United Kingdom Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation has  http://blogs.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.php/2014/04/practical-school-science-is-v... Before a bunch of people go off on some…

A short history of IQ - it wasn't the worst thing from 1920s education theory we are still stuck with What to do?  If there is no metric, there is no way to educate http://www.thestar.com/living…

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/scienceandtech/columns/for... There are two reasons NASA does not get more support. 1) The science community circles the wagons around everything. Have…

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/scienceandtech/columns/for... There are two reasons NASA does not get more support. 1) The science community circles the wagons around everything. Have…

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Remember that terrific egg in a frying pan public service announcement warning us all about the dangers of drugs?  It was well done, stoners in the 1980s said things like, "I'm so fried" (they…

Remember that terrific egg in a frying pan public service announcement warning us all about the dangers of drugs?  It was well done, stoners in the 1980s said things like, "I'm so fried" (they…

Do you believe your car grill says something meaningful about you? That a messy office means you are more likely to be racist? That some people have precognitive abilities? Those are all peer-…

Do you believe your car grill says something meaningful about you? That a messy office means you are more likely to be racist? That some people have precognitive abilities? Those are all peer-…