Barchester Green Investment Limited (Barchester),  which bills itself as the UK's leading ethical and environmental financial adviser, released their list of the current 'Heroes and Villains'…

Fabio Casati and his collaborators at LiquidPublication, an EU-financed research project, want to change how you do science.  Namely by allowing you to do more of it, instead of sifting through…

No one here at Science 2.0 really noticed the Scienceblogs Pepsigate thing, being busy writing about science, but I lurk in a number of other places and, since Scienceblogs is the Big Kahuna in…

Vinay Deolalikar from HP Labs claims proof of Millenium Prize problem P=NP, and (potential) $1M prize (pending peer review)! This deceptively simple little bugger (think e=mc^2) has, until now,…

What do you do when you get stuck with no pay by a crappy publisher?  Not much, except never work without a contract again.    Freelancer DeLene Beeland dispels the notion that it…

What do you do when you get stuck with no pay by a crappy publisher?  Not much, except never work without a contract again.    Freelancer DeLene Beeland dispels the notion that it…

Historically, the medical approach to curing the incurable effects of tragic spinal cord injuries--such as the case made famous by America's classic super hero, Christopher Reeve--has been to affect…

In the It-From-Bit series I have reported extensively on Verlinde's 'entropic gravity' concept. I have also provided you with an illustrative 'mikado universe' picture of entropic gravity. This got…

The Anatomy Of A DiscoveryPetermann Glacier Ice Tongue Calving 2010 Science20.com is a science site. Now, I could blabber and bluster about how I once advised Margaret Thatcher1.  Which I did.…

Free Energy I have written a great deal about global warming, climate change and have made several successful predictions - notably the recent calving of an ice island at the outlet of the Petermann…

This week will include the peak evenings for the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although sky watchers have already seen a few exciting fireballs already, August 12 and 13 are expected to be the…

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology say they have unraveled the mystery of why human embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells undergo apoptosis…

"All Americans look alike" is a common joke in Asia and a similar sentiment is expressed in virtually every other country populated by a race different than its tourists.   And to some degree it…

"In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist." -- Hitchens Emotions are quick, here and gone, but moods settle upon us like cloaks of fog, obscuring the true lay…

Science 2.0, being about openness and outreach and participation,  can attract its share of kooks.  Depending on the whims of the community moderators around that day, goofy, speculative…

Thimios Mitsiadis, Professor for Oral Biology at the University of Zurich, says he has shown that  during tooth formation (odontogenesis) if the Jagged2 gene is inactivated, and thus the Notch…

Patrick Lockerby has been discussing the break-off of part of the Petermann shelf for a while and others have noticed.  A Daily Kos blogger has links to it and the BBC notes Patrick's article.…

Patrick Lockerby has been discussing the break-off of part of the Petermann shelf for a while and others have noticed.  A Daily Kos blogger has links to it and the BBC notes Patrick's article.…

One way to understand how life similar to that on Earth could exist on other planets is to travel to one of the coldest places on Earth and find the planet's coolest creatures. Professor Liane…

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