The oldest evidence of the dinosaur lineage—fossilized tracks—is described this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.    This fossilized trackway places the very closest relatives of…

Arctic Ice October 2010 ... the land being very high and full of mightie mountaines all covered with snowe, no viewe of wood, grasse or earth to be seene, and the shore two leages of into the sea so…

I am on a diet, to the delight of my impossibly chic wife, who has no problem at all eating cake and pasta in front of me while I consume bland chicken. I had assumed that my increasing weight was…

In the debate over human embryonic stem cell research, protesters have ethical issues with experimenting on human embryos, while proponents point to the research’s huge potential to save lives. How…

Software uses many kinds of data. Sometimes it concerns worksheet data and sometimes it is data that is retrieved or generated in some way or it are results of actions. Often these data are…

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Is the name Andre Geim familiar to you?  If you are in science, you know him because he just won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene with Konstantin Novoselov at the…

Let's be honest, Russian winters are the kiss of death in the best of circumstances - just ask Napoleon and Hitler how things would change if they had a do-over. But this year could be even worse.…

Let's be honest, Russian winters are the kiss of death in the best of circumstances - just ask Napoleon and Hitler how things would change if they had a do-over. But this year could be even worse.…

There is a perception that modern generations want to sex up their culture, and cheerleader dance routines are no exception - but at least one school squad has protested being forced to wear outfits…

There is a perception that modern generations want to sex up their culture, and cheerleader dance routines are no exception - but at least one school squad has protested being forced to wear outfits…

There’s a relatively newly discovered (within the last few months) computer worm called Stuxnet, which exploits several Windows vulnerabilities (some of which were patched some time ago) as it…

Today, October 5th, millions of teachers and education workers will be joined by children, young people and parents across the globe to celebrate World Teachers' Day. They will pay tribute to the…

Sorry, cosmic acceleration, this was not your year.   The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two…

US News&World Report has a nifty writeup from the NSF about research on Humboldt squid, featuring my PhD advisor and various collaborators. Both the title and the subtitle make me laugh…

Researchers have made environmentally-friendlier bricks that are also stronger than traditional ones.   That is a big win for everyone. Untreated clay was one of the earliest building materials…

Their son died in a horrific car accident, but that was just the beginning of dealing with his heart-wrenching death for his parents. Next, after he was buried, they found out his brain was on…

Their son died in a horrific car accident, but that was just the beginning of dealing with his heart-wrenching death for his parents. Next, after he was buried, they found out his brain was on…

I doubt many of us will lament the loss of BIOS.   It is a testament to Microsoft that they made sure as much software as possible was as backward-compatible as possible for as long as possible…

I doubt many of us will lament the loss of BIOS.   It is a testament to Microsoft that they made sure as much software as possible was as backward-compatible as possible for as long as possible…