DDT Rebranded As Personalized Medicine For Insects

DDT Rebranded As Personalized Medicine For Insects

A new class of dopamine receptor antagonists (DARs) could provide a safer means of controlling mosquitoes that transmit key infectious diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and elephantiasis. The new…
Bacteria's Role In Long-Term Ocean Carbon Storage

Bacteria's Role In Long-Term Ocean Carbon Storage

The ocean is a huge reservoir of dissolved organic molecules, many of them stable against microbial utilization for hundreds and even thousands of years.  They contain a similar amount of carbon…
The Arts And Crafts Of Dark Matter

The Arts And Crafts Of Dark Matter

With over 40 years using and manipulating gravity for my small arts and crafts business I have discovered the answers to some of the most pressing questions in cosmology - the nature of dark energy…
Seals Happy About Global Warming Sea Ice Loss

Seals Happy About Global Warming Sea Ice Loss

Though the developed world is concerned about greenhouse gas emissions implicated in climate change and global warming, reactions in nature have been less consistent. Polar bears have been…
A Foolproof Social Skills Hack

A Foolproof Social Skills Hack

In my role as lead investigator at the Science of People laboratory complex, people often ask me if those 'social skills hacks' they read about are real. Well, I am here to tell you they are, and I…
BPA Will Kill The World Homeopathically

BPA Will Kill The World Homeopathically

It is rare enough to have one accepted scientific paradigm turned on its head, but last week we had two. Pay attention. This may never happen again. A study that was just published in the oft cited…
Instead of an April's Fool

Instead of an April's Fool

Taking inspiration from Resonaances, who this year offers much more than an April's Fool in his blog (I am also flattered to see that I am featured there, and with a character of my liking), I am…
Thank Your Mother For The Nature Of Nurture

Thank Your Mother For The Nature Of Nurture

When it comes to survival of the fittest, it's all about your mother, according to a study that analyzed 24 years' worth of data from a population of North American red squirrels in Canada's…
Will We Ever Get Accurate Hurricane Forecasts?

Will We Ever Get Accurate Hurricane Forecasts?

The biggest challenge facing climate models is similar to those facing economic ones - predicting the past is relatively easy, but predicting the future is far more of a challenge. In the United…