There is a subsection of the science community that loves Rachel Maddow; she is literate and she has the right politics.  But most of science is doing a facepalm because her slippery slope…

There is a subsection of the science community that loves Rachel Maddow; she is literate and she has the right politics.  But most of science is doing a facepalm because her slippery slope…

Writing on Scientific American blogs, Maria Konnikova makes a point numerous scientists have made, yet one that makes science journalists and many psychologists bristle with irritation. It’s…

Writing on Scientific American blogs, Maria Konnikova makes a point numerous scientists have made, yet one that makes science journalists and many psychologists bristle with irritation. It’s…

The US Food and Drug Administration says requiring special labels for foods that contain ingredients from genetically modified crops would be "inherently misleading" to consumers - that is exactly…

The Large Hadron Collider is delivering as expected a large amount of integrated luminosity of proton-proton collisions to CMS and ATLAS, running at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The total…

It's easy to get depressed reading the criticisms of self-loathing types who demand a zero-defects culture.  If some weirdo neuroscience PhD student shoots up a movie theater, well, that is…

CD-adapco has released the STAR-CCM + Battery Simulation Module, designed to simulate spirally wound lithium-ion battery cells, which could help the automotive and battery industries more quickly…

Global warming and more water would be good for surfers, right?  Nope.  Did you see any surfing in "Waterworld" or"The Day After Tomorrow"?  Nope, because higher sea levels mean…

Global warming and more water would be good for surfers, right?  Nope.  Did you see any surfing in "Waterworld" or"The Day After Tomorrow"?  Nope, because higher sea levels mean…

Being able to print electronic equipment has led to a cost-effective device that could change the way we interact with everyday objects - namely by using a phone's emitted radio waves for wireless…

Can't tell a $4 bottle of wine from a $40 one?  Neither can the best sommeliers in the world.  But in the future you might at least seem like an expert, thanks to the power of semantic…

Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden recently set out to test the unwritten rule of the sea that, during maritime disasters, women and children are first in the lifeboats. What they found…

Excuse my use of the personal pronoun in this short article, but I am writing to get input as much as I am to simply observe a phenomenon. I am increasingly drawn to the connection between bench…

Dark matter, up to 25 percent of the universe, hasn't actually been found. It is a hypothesis, though not an unreasonable one, given that something must create a gravitational force. But science has…

There are calls in some quarters that we need to be more like people in the past; war, pestilence, disease, early death, it's all good as long as we use no pesticides. And clear cutting forests is…

Affinium Pharmaceuticals announced today that full recruitment has been achieved in its multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating oral AFN-1252 in acute bacterial skin&skin structure…

Another disabled person denied a transplant because of his disability. Another petition in hopes of changing the hospital's decision (go sign it, please). After the last time, with Mia…

In the last year, I've had the occasion to review several books that deal with the unconscious mind. Each author has had an interesting take on the same material, and it's been illuminating to see…

Everyone knows insects have adhesion on dry surfaces - the liquid surface tension between air, liquids and solids known as the capillary force. In order to stick to dry surfaces insects use…