Alice wants to play a game with Bill. She has just bought some new and rather strange dice. The average of each die is 3.5, just like a normal playing die, but the numbers on each face have an…

Since today is a celebration of St. Patrick, the religious figure who 'drove the snakes out of Ireland' (meaning Paganism), a whole lot of people got drunk last night.   Yeah, Protestants…

The title should be: Reformulating the Postmodern Core Insight versus Consistency as Absolute Meta-Truth:  Last Bastion against New Totalitarianism - or some such, however, the software does not…

The Lazarus Project team says they have been able to recover cell nuclei of the extinct gastric-brooding frog, Rheobatrachus silus, from tissues collected in the 1970s and kept for 40 years in a…

When Whole Foods announced it will require all of the products on its shelves to have their GMO contents labeled by 2018, the company framed it as an issue of transparency.  ”People have the…

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill dumped more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico yet government assessments have been unable to account for all of it. Microbes likely…

On Jupiter, cloudless patches are so rare that the larger visible ones get the special name 'hot spots.' How do these clearings form and why they are they only found near the planet's equator? It's…

Being Pope may mean good things in the afterlife but here on Earth, it doesn't count for a lot on the Internet. On the day Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis, over 600 domain…

The presentations of the last few days at the Neutrino Telescopes conference in Venice allowed me to get to full speed with the developments, new ideas, and new experiments taking data or just in…

How does the human brain 'decodes' letters on a page to read a word? Psychologists are trying to help neuroscientists unravel the subtle thinking mechanisms involved in reading, which could provide…

Iconic RSS Feed Icon I have been a regular user of Google Reader, and I was quite disappointed when I got to know about it's impending shutdown. Google Reader has been my information dashboard…

A team of international scientist has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond our solar system.   The planet is one of four gas giants…

Poverty and under-education dampen contraception use in Nepal but another factor may be more intractable: Deeply held cultural preferences for sons over daughters. The cross-sectional study was based…

Coffee may help lower your risk of having a stroke, especially if it is a regular part of your diet, according to research published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Green tea…

If you are anything like me, you were surprised that the LHC announced a 5-sigma result for the Higgs boson last July.  Not because it wasn't there - it clearly was - but because usually…

If you are anything like me, you were surprised that the LHC announced a 5-sigma result for the Higgs boson last July.  Not because it wasn't there - it clearly was - but because usually…

Terahertz (THz) radiation, in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light, is rapidly finding important uses in medical diagnostics, security, and scientific research. …

CITES today overruled objections from countries like Japan, China and India and listed five species of highly traded sharks under the CITES Appendices, along with both manta rays and one species of…

Do people form into tribe-like communities on social network sites such as Twitter? Well, sure, that is the nature of people. An analysis has found that these communities have a common character,…

BANGKOK -- March 14, 2013 -- The following statement was issued today by WCS President and CEO Cristian Samper: The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today celebrates the decision by an historic,…