When researchers from the CDC and the National Cancer Institute wrote a JAMA paper noting that while obesity was linked to excess deaths, it turned out that people who were merely overweight were at…

When researchers from the CDC and the National Cancer Institute wrote a JAMA paper noting that while obesity was linked to excess deaths, it turned out that people who were merely overweight were at…

Michael Barone of the Washington Examiner wrote an opinion piece so false in premises that it needs no formal logic to show the flaw only a brief Google search. He writes of the Manhattan project as…

As a child, the "Star Trek" show (there was no The Original Series designation then, any more than there was a Star War IV: A New Hope) was on in just about every market, courtesy of syndication.…

As a child, the "Star Trek" show (there was no The Original Series designation then, any more than there was a Star War IV: A New Hope) was on in just about every market, courtesy of syndication.…

Much of this is taken on faith because 2,000 years after most of the world, the early immigrants to the Americas still hadn't learned to read and write. That leaves what scientists call just-so…

Much of this is taken on faith because 2,000 years after most of the world, the early immigrants to the Americas still hadn't learned to read and write. That leaves what scientists call just-so…

Are you a white person who believes you have a moral imperative to introduce your superior belief system to brown and black people in other countries who have not yet been converted? No, you're not a…

Dr. Scott Balsitis knows vaccines work, which is not a rarity in the San Francisco Bay area, but since they have long been a hotbed of anti-vaccine sentiment, leading the state that leads the U.S. in…

Dr. Scott Balsitis knows vaccines work, which is not a rarity in the San Francisco Bay area, but since they have long been a hotbed of anti-vaccine sentiment, leading the state that leads the U.S. in…

What would happen if we could make Jupiter many times more massive but not make it so massive that it became a star?  This is a question that in a certain ideal view of science could only be…

Time and again, I get surprised by observing how scientific graphs meant to provide summarized, easy-to-access information get misunderstood, misinterpreted, or plainly ignored by otherwise well-read…

Diapers are not what you'd think about first when you consider recycling. The CBC estimates the number at billions of disposable diapers entering landfills in North America. With this much waste…

Light that goes into that black hole doesn’t come out, so we shouldn’t be able to see anything behind one, but if a black hole is warping space, bending light and twisting magnetic fields around…

Smartphones tout 'dark mode' as an energy-saving feature, because darker-colored pixels use less power than lighter-colored pixels. It's mostly an intellectual placebo, finds a new study,…

Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars work for which her PhD advisor, and the head of the Cambridge astronomy group won the Nobel Prize.  They could’ve awarded it to three people.  She did NOT…

When subnuclear particles traverse matter they give rise to a multitude of physical phenomena. The richness of the different processes is a crucial asset for the construction of sensitive particle…

Pessimistic scenarios of the future are popular and always have been. By 700 BC, the Greek philosopher Hesiod lamented in Works and Days that the Golden Age for mankind had passed. Paleolithic…

Nearly 70 years ago, results of a Swedish experiment, now called the Vipeholm studies, correlated frequent candy consumption and tooth decay. With the benefit of scientific hindsight, this is no…

Space agencies like NASA define astronaut based on whether someone as completed the training to be an astronaut.  NASA also recognizes Astronauts who have flown missions with a gold pin instead…