In 1999, a Swedish medical student brought ancient wizardry and horror fiction to life - despite being dead for three hours, Anna Bagenholm was revived and has made a nearly full recovery. …

That is what Hamza Kashgari, a 23 years old reporter and poet from Saudi Arabia, is realizing the hard way. He used twitter to write a poetic "dialogue" with prophet Muhammad, and this was enough to…

Save your breath.  We've heard all the arguments that Valentine's Day is an artificially manufactured holiday designed to bilk men out of money, just like we have heard postmodernists and…

Save your breath.  We've heard all the arguments that Valentine's Day is an artificially manufactured holiday designed to bilk men out of money, just like we have heard postmodernists and…

Could someone be stealing your unpublished data? It is more likely than you might think, especially if you ever travel to other countries. Before you dismiss this as paranoia, read on. When I was a…

The Freeport News--"Grand Bahama's First Newspaper"--ran an article today that was a mix of highly detailed biology and complete bone-headed confusion. Could there be a healthy squid population…

This week's Friday fossil is Samotherium. Samotherium is an ancient Giraffe. It's skull is two feet long, with two horns, and it's thigh bones are twice as big as a human's. These are its milk teeth…

I am pleased to present once again an interesting TED talk. O.K., the talk is a little on the slow side, but Jack Horner’s Shape Shifting Dinosaurs is worth watching, for it shows yet again something…

World wide energy consumption is projected to grow by 59 percent over the next two decades,according to International Energy Outlook 2001 (IEO 2001), released by US Energy Information Administration…

The media absolutely gushed over the possibility that smoking leads to brain damage, highlighted in a 'study' Monday.  They were so happy to not have to write about another miracle vegetable or…

The media absolutely gushed over the possibility that smoking leads to brain damage, highlighted in a 'study' Monday.  They were so happy to not have to write about another miracle vegetable or…

A new result by the CMS collaboration has been produced today on top quark physics. For those of you who only get triggered by the search of new particles or new forces, the study of "yesterday's…

In time for Valentine's Day, researchers have determined which champagne glass size will give drinkers the optimal experience.  A new study highlights the effects that champagne glass shape and…

It's been a rough two weeks--tears galore, bright spots, strep, then mono, and days passed in bed, sleeping hour after hour, as if in a week, I managed to make up for 22 years of child-created sleep…

Lately, my wife and I have been staring slack-jawed at elementary school options, little ropes of drool hanging zombie-like from the corners of our mouths  – and so we’ve decided to cede our…

While anti-science politicians in Washington, D.C. block science solutions to harvesting more fish, a crucial piece of information about salmon isn't being considered; the numbers without a science…

Recent research examined suicide rates north and south of the border between 1960 and 2008 and revealed the widening gap in suicide rates between Scotland and England and Wales is largely due to the…

Efforts at obfuscation and fomenting false concerns by kooky anti-science food activists aren't working.  They spent the better part of the last decade blocking science advancements in food…

The gap between atheists and the religious seems at times to be an impossible divide, almost as if believers and non-believers come from different species. What separates the secular from the sacred?…

Every 6 months or so these days it feels like we find the earliest animal life. More often than not, said life is something ugly that turns up in a bucket after dissolving rocks in acid. Well, it's…