The human demand for energy began long ago when apes metamorphosed into the first of what after another million years of evolution would become homo-sapiens. Survival was tough in the beginning, but…

Some science faculty are not happy because they believe that these days in science the trainees do not work the long hours like they used to in the "old days".Is that true? If it is true, is that a…

In a modern culture that promotes releasing the Id to do as it pleases (but then over-regulating what it can have access too, so no cigarettes, video games or trans-fats) fasting is out of place.…

To no one's surprise, environmentalists and industry lobbyists are butting heads in a major legal wrangle over California's "wetfish"--sardines, anchovies, mackerel, and market squid. As you may…

I don’t multitask. Or, I do it so badly that I end up dropping everything in a massive tangle of badness with me standing baffled at its center. This frustrates my wife to no end. She can balance on…

“… the degree to which one smiles in photographs taken in early life predicts the likelihood that a person will be divorced later in life.” say researchers from the Touch and Emotion Lab at DePauw…

Thanks to Sven Heinemeyer and his colleagues, we can give a peek today at the status of the agreement of top and W boson masses with Standard Model predictions for the Higgs boson mass, and with SUSY…

Euphorbia tirucalli L. (Family, Euphorbiacae) a succulent cactus-like plant growing to a height of about 10 m, was introduced from Africa as a garden plant. E. tirucalli Grows in arid zones as well…

Bloomberg calls it "South Pacific's Cruelest Catch": Yusril says the officers hit him in the face with fish and the boatswain repeatedly kicked him in the back for using gloves when he was sewing the…

The Obama administration delayed, and then canceled, the Keystone XL Project expansion that would have generated up to 120,000 jobs and lowered the cost of fuel for Americans.  Now, with oil at…

The Obama administration delayed, and then canceled, the Keystone XL Project expansion that would have generated up to 120,000 jobs and lowered the cost of fuel for Americans.  Now, with oil at…

Previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves could bring us closer to revealing the blueprint of cosmic structure. The results include the first map of carbon…

The Tevatron collider has been shut down for almost half a year now, but the CDF experiment is still busy producing world-class measurements of fundamental Standard Model parameters. Actually, the…

“Despite the possibility of mixed feelings of disgust and amusement hardly anything is known about the relationship between these emotions.” Prompting researchers from Western Illinois University…

Older maternal age is associated with an increased change of having a child with autism.Older paternal age  is associated with an increased change of having a child with autism. Autism Spectrum…

Do you accept science as far as has been experimentally verified? Are you a modern agnostic knowledgeable about the difference between pseudo-science and the proper stuff? Yes? Good, I was looking…

A recent study suggests that the protein hVps37A suppresses tumor growth in ovarian cancer. It says this protein is significantly reduced in ovarian cancer cells and this reduction affects a…

This just in: the controversial Opera result on superluminal neutrinos is affected by a previously unaccounted for experimental error, which completely overturns the conclusions. This is explained in…

If you haven't heard the kerfuffle about flying squid by now, you've been under a rock. A cephalopod-free rock.  Jessica Marshall wrote a story for Nature which also ran in Scientific American.…

Being in science media for any length of time, you will discover what Martin Robbins, a self-proclaimed liberal, called The Big White Elephant In The Room - partisan framing of science issues through…