Some of the world's best coffee comes from the tropical highlands of Central and South America.  Recently these regions have experienced heavier rainfall.  This is probably due to climate…

Apres un long silence Apres un long silence, dont je ne chercherai pas a m'excuser,j'ai le plaisir de vous communiquer ... After a long silence, for which I will not try to apologize,I am pleased to…

Ants and Earthquakes A recent paper linking red wood ant behaviour to earthquakes has been widely reported but not widely discussed.  Such discussion and comment as there has been in the media…

Pictures showing the structure of matter and the organization of subatomic particles in different categories abound. Indeed, cataloging and classifying entities subject of study is a powerful means…

Probably no signs of gravitational waves, signs of dark matter but not a discovery. That is the word from this first day of the American Physical Society's meeting in Denver Colorado.   In…

2012 was the year that global warming came roaring back - in science media, anyway. Despite the IPCC asking the media to help a little less when it came to attributing every weather event to climate…

2012 was the year that global warming came roaring back - in science media, anyway. Despite the IPCC asking the media to help a little less when it came to attributing every weather event to climate…

• The problem – How to tell if a banana is senescent (old). • The solution – Apply fractal Fourier analysis to the banana spots. The computational method was jointly developed by the Department of…

A study by the University of Winnipeg -   2,300 first-year psychology students were surveyed online for three consecutive years - found that psychology students who do a lot of texting tend to…

A study by the University of Winnipeg -   2,300 first-year psychology students were surveyed online for three consecutive years - found that psychology students who do a lot of texting tend to…

More than 80 genetic 'spelling mistakes' can increase the risk of breast, prostate and ovarian cancer, according to a large, international research study. The researchers say they also have a…

Results from Planck and AMS-02, but also the way they are often presented, have created a very exciting situation. Its exceptional character has led me to quickly write an article, Planck data,…

The adage that 'there is a sucker born every minute' has always been true. Organic food? Homeopathy? Social psychology?  I am cool with all of those unless poor people who think they are…

If you're not a researcher, you probably don't use Mendeley a lot, I don't have an account there even though I have written lots of pieces about their stuff.  But it's popular among researchers…

In the great debate over genetically modified organisms - GMOs - few institutional nods have been sought so keenly as that of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. A “no” from the influential…

Hunter-gatherers living in ice age conditions cooked fish, according to the findings of a team from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan, who carried out chemical analysis of food residues in…

Are your eggs free range?  Do you care? Well, chicken farmers care, because marketing success for 'free range' labels has made it a big business.  There actually is a somewhat fuzzy limit,…

Are your eggs free range?  Do you care?Well, chicken farmers care, because marketing success for 'free range' labels has made it a big business. There actually is a somewhat fuzzy limit, 1…

Recently, there was found in Spain a shelled Pre-Cambrian Critter which showed distinct evidence of a gut.  This got me thinking about the distinction between the deuterostomes and protostomes,…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/hacking-the-mainframe_n_2958380... Actually it should have read, "What David Stephens and HuffPo got wrong". There's only one response possible.http://www…