On July 16th, 2013, at 12:09 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, sending billions of tons of particles into space. These particles cannot travel through the…

90% of East Asian adolescents in British Columbia are not sexually active, so East Asian parents are doing something right, but the ones who do have sex engage in some risky behavior The paper in the…

In 2011 the Very Large Telescope (VLT) discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating towards the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.   The cloud is now so…

Despite much research on the many processes that erode rocky coastal cliffs, accurately predicting the nature, location and timing of coastline retreat remains challenging. This is also confounded by…

When is a tuna more like a seahorse than a marlin? Science! The first comprehensive phylogeny of the "spiny-rayed fish," a group that includes about a third of all living vertebrate species, has been…

After nearly 25 years of searching, three scientists have finally found Waldo. No, not the lovable bespectacled character in children's picture books, but rather an unusual clam they have named Waldo…

Testing a new therapeutic intervention such as a drug or surgical procedure on human subjects is not an option so the vast majority are first tested on animals and only when they have been…

As we have discussed here numerous times, 'organic' mostly means what you want it to mean. The list of synthetic ingredients that the organic lobby has gotten the FDA to add is truly dizzying, with…

As we have discussed here numerous times, 'organic' mostly means what you want it to mean. The list of synthetic ingredients that the organic lobby has gotten the FDA to add is truly dizzying, with…

If the Sun's outer atmosphere - corona - is so hot, why does it always look so cool? The Sun's visible surface is 'only' 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, but as you move outward the temperature shoots…

Backwards is a nicely fitting description for how I have come to be who and what I am. This is my story. Many scientists go the traditional route of undergrad > master's/TA > Ph.D. >…

John Rosemond has a master's degree in psychology and is a licensed psychologist. He is also a syndicated advice columnist who has been doing it since 1976, one of the longest-running syndicated…

John Rosemond has a master's degree in psychology and is a licensed psychologist. He is also a syndicated advice columnist who has been doing it since 1976, one of the longest-running syndicated…

How do you know subsidies are a dopey public policy? When it pays to smuggle rice into Thailand, even though Thailand already has enough rice to meet half the world's annual trade in the food staple.…

How do you know subsidies are a dopey public policy? When it pays to smuggle rice into Thailand, even though Thailand already has enough rice to meet half the world's annual trade in the food staple.…

Proponents of illegal immigration contend that they are doing jobs no one wants to do. Farmers worry about the cost of labor. Both immigration and wage problems are solved by just using robots. …

Proponents of illegal immigration contend that they are doing jobs no one wants to do. Farmers worry about the cost of labor. Both immigration and wage problems are solved by just using robots. …

By the time Sandy hit New Jersey and New York, it had been reduced to a tropical storm but its rare angle of approach still meant a lot of devastation. Environmentalists in New York are resistant to…

While America has dramatically dematerialized its environmental footprint in recent decades, producing far more food on far less land than 30 years ago, that's not true for the rest of the world.…

Scientists have revealed the genetic secrets of how a small bird, Parus humilis  (ground tit) can survive in one of the most hostile environments on earth - the Tibetan plateau, the largest high…