What I wrote some days ago is coming true People are dying due to heat Human body cant tolerate temperatures beyond 50 degree. With Rajasthan touching almost that temperature, several distrticts…

The Phoenix Mars Lander is dead, says NASA.  Last week, the Mars Odyssey orbiter flew over the Phoenix landing site in final attempts to communicate with the lander but no transmission was…

Thanks to his fearmongering, as Josh notes in his blog, the UK stripped Andrew Wakefield of his medical license. Not only did Wakefield act unethically, dishonestly and irresponsibly, Britain's…

Arctic Heroes #1 - Alfred Wegener The history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration and discovery is filled with the names of heroes.  Many of those names get repeated over and over in popular…

One of the worst things I see on the internet, as both a parent of children on the spectrum and as scientifically-based, rational person who works hard to instruct my students in critical thinking…

"This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." ~ Carl Sagan The first time I heard this quote was in field school. We'd spent the…

Have a talent and enjoyment for inflicting prescribed doses of pain? Your dream job awaits. (Biology undergraduate required.) Contact: 555-8428   …as seen in classified ads. You are not…

"There is no better way to learn something than to write about it" Martin Gardner (via Johannes Koelman)

A team of archaeologists has captured a snapshot of rural life in the village of Sanyangzhuang in western China during the Han Dynasty, over 2,000 years ago. Researchers found that the town, though…

Scientists from the University of California, Berekley have captured images of a comet diving into the sun. Using instruments aboard NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft, the researchers were able to track…

If you want boost your romantic relationship, and achieve and maintain satisfaction with your partner, show some gratitude. Positive thinking has been shown to have a longstanding constructive effect…

The 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks effected Americans in many ways, even those not directly involved. Now researchers claim that the stress caused by psychological shock from the attacks may have led to…

A major earthquake, comparable to the one that hit Chile earlier this year, could strike the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States, Oregon State geologists say.There is more than a one-in…

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), The Nile Delta Basic holds an estimated 223 trillion cubic feet (tcf) (mean estimate) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas.…

Bone marrow cells play a critical role in fighting respiratory viruses, making the bone marrow a potential therapeutic target, especially in people with compromised immune systems, say researchers…

Drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages may lower blood pressure, according to research published in Circulation.The study potentially has important public health implications, because even small…

Moderate alcohol consumption may prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease, especially if you avoid tobacco, according to a new study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. The effect was strongest in…

A new study published in Genome Research has identified intrinsic properties of DNA that influence mutation rate, shedding light on an area of biology that still needs to be investigated - the…

Male antelopes, observed in southwest Kenya, send a false signal that a predator is nearby only when females in heat are in their territories. When the females react to the signal, they remain in the…

  Just a little insight on the final project I'm working on to complete this term. The class is called: Big Ideas in Science:From Methods to Mutation "Applying Scientific Methodology in Everyday…