Here's a good way to standardize education across the states without enraging powerful education unions and the US Department of Education: get rid of real standards. In a bit of pedagogical…

Everyday we rely on information transmitted through satellites. Some are close, orbiting just above the earth’s atmosphere, while others circle at a distance of 30 or 50 times further into space.…

I quickly wrote a short paper, "Broken Symmetries, Massless Particles and Gauge Fields", which described how gauge theories may evade the Goldstone theorem, and submitted it to Physics Letters. It…

It’s curious, all the press attention lavished on this recent article1 in Jour. Evolutionary Biology. Noting the differing proportions of human hands versus those of other primates, Michael Morgan…

The puzzle of dark energy, the dark cloud of 21st centry physics, is possibly solved. A postdoctorate, Wan-Jiung Hu, solves this puzzle in his book "Theories of Everything by Logic". Wan-Jiung Hu is…

In a recent JAMA article, 2008 National Survey of Mental Health Treatment Facilities data of psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and freestanding outpatient clinics or partial-care…

About 45 years ago, Penn evolutionary biologist a Daniel Janzen reasoned that change in species from site to site across mountain ranges in the tropics should be greater than in temperate latitudes…

When is it time for parents to help and when it is time to back away? Since kids were having children of their own at age 18 a century ago it seems obvious that hovering over college-age students is…

"GMO Inside" is demanding that America's largest candy sellers, Hershey's and Mars, put GMO warning labels on their Valentine's Day candy or remove these 'risky' ingredients completely.Wait, they…

As some have observed, popular cinema is an influential medium that reflects and shapes social attitudes. Bearing that in mind, how have twentieth century North American movies portrayed…

Wind energy is not very efficient and activists have turned on it because 300,000 out of 10,000,000,000 birds are killed by wind turbines each year. Without subsidies it would not exist but exist it…

1:1 In the beginning Newton declared space and time. 1:2 And space was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 1:3 And Newton said, Let there be force: and there was force…

Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere faster than previously thought if exposed to…

Dance is a beautiful form of expression, but it can be physically taxing and strenuous on the human body, particularly for children and adolescents. According to a new analysis, between 1991 and…

A group has created a new computer system that can quickly reconstruct protolanguages, the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. And their tool is already 85 percent as…

Lead is a common element found in old paints, soil, water and the atmosphere. At high doses it is lethal but also causes minor symptoms like headaches. Small children are obviously impacted more and…

Apple's iPhone success is unquestioned but the perception exceeds the reality. Instead, the more modest expectations of Android devices make people far more satisfied with them.  iPhone 5 only…

Europeans may not like immigrants from the east now, but that is where Stone Age Europe got its agriculture, and thus an origin of Western civilization, according to new data resulting from a study…

President Barack Obama has been criticized for a lack of diversity in his cabinet compared to his predecessor - charges he also faced when he was president of the Harvard Law Review and only 25% of…

In the ongoing culture war among climate scientists, climate scientologists and climate deniers, few things stands out like the effect of volcanoes.  Volcanoes are well-known for cooling the…