Jon Entine is executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, where this article first appeared. The ethics controversy over Food and Chemical Toxicology’s decision in November to retract a…

Dependence between variables, even within their contemporaneous and extreme movements, are not limited to linear relationships defined through the Pearson correlation, ρ.  The…

How do we estimate the confidence range about an estimate?  In normal probability theory, we take a distribution and directly measure the dispersion within the data.  This…

The pesticides that farmers use to protect their crops have changed a great deal over the last few decades While improvement is something we expect from technologies as diverse as pharmaceuticals to…

Follow me on Twitter: @SteveSchuler20. Back in the day, some chemistry sets came with a mechanical centrifuge. They were operated similar to those old-timey pump style tin spinning toy tops. This is…

Researchers have decoded the whole genome sequence of one widespread species and it turns out to be remarkably big -  6.5 gigabytes, largest animal genome sequenced so far.  The…

By observing a high-speed component of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, an extraordinarily dynamic cluster with a total mass greater than 1015 (a million billion) times the mass of the…

Even "minimally buzzed" drinkers and drivers are more often to blame for fatal car crashes than the sober drivers they collide with, reports a University of California, San Diego study of accidents…

So the other day Julia Galef and I had the pleasure of interviewing mathematical cosmologist Max Tegmark for the Rationally Speaking podcast. The episode will come out in late January, close to the…

If you tried the martini diet, the tapeworm diet and going gluten-free, science has bad news; the popular blood type diet isn't going to work any better for you.  The 'blood-type' diet was…

Comic book heroes get into all kinds of crazy situations, everything from alien invaders to losing their powers. Most often, though, might simply makes right -  but what happens when the thing…

Everyone (who can count) will instantly recognise the numbers 1 2&3 in the picture below:Or will they? Well, no they won’t. All is explained in an article for Osaka Keidai Ronshu, Vol. 60 number…

While writing my series on the Science Play and Research Kit, I hoped to survey chemistry sets that are already on the market. I was able to get a reviewer’s sample of the Chem C3000 and you can…

Managers of fantasy sports teams - where people draft rosters filled with players of their own choosing - spend countless hours and sometimes thousands of dollars on analysis to develop a…

If we want to protect the health of women, government policies should require that both parents take maternity leave, says social epidemiologist Dr. Patricia O'Campo, director of the Centre for…

If you buy extra virgin olive oil, caveat emptor. Olive oil has been an avenue for corruption for hundreds and perhaps even thousands of years. Some extra virgin olive oil in studies was found to not…

Sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. And people like all kinds of pizza. It's entirely subjective so if you ask people about their sexual satisfaction, you might as well…

Researchers have determined the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2.7 billion year-old seawater using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iron…

In Italy the debate over the escape of brilliant young scientists to foreign countries has been going on for decades now. Italians like to debate, much less to solve their own problems. So although…

Every child learns about photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy. It sounds simple but duplicating it elegantly remains one of the biggest challenges for…