Writing in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers say that many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session, and the nature of these benefits can be…

Researchers from George Washington University and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology have discovered a new species of Jurassic theropod dinosaur called Haplocheirus…

Since the start of UN after the world war II how much money has been spent by its different bodies  in total through an army of organisations and what is the total outcome of the environmental…

Many significant “discoveries” science will make in the coming decade have actually already been made. The synthesis of some of these revelations in the ‘teens, and the synergistic…

WARNING!  Very bad joke alert.  Please engage brain before reading further. Scoop!  Newsflash!  No Science At IPCC! Following hot on the heels of recent news about emails,…

I’ve already written how it irks me that so few scientific publications include good detail of how the animal subjects were used. Everyone needs a pet peeve; this is [one of] mine. I’ve been…

As someone who occasionally (or sometimes more than occasionally) says the wrong thing in an attempt to be helpful or comforting of "fix" the situation, I was particularly terrified by a recent…

About a third way up the mountain, on Mt. Sinai, Moses was given six visions in the year 1598 BC, about two months after the Exodus from Egypt. Each vision was twelve hours long, revealing events on…

Since when has systems biology been a synonym for genomics? This is from a Perspective piece in the Oct. 2 issue of Science: The relative value of discovery aimed at hypothesis generation versus…

In a recent post on my personal blog, I talked about television content delivery and pricing. What I didn’t mention in that post, particularly when I talked about the lack of choice, is that there is…

I have been lagging behind lately with my usual browsing of other physics blogs. So let me catch up here and suggest a few posts which should be interesting to read. Peter Woit is always an…

I have many friends around the world. Some of them are far away, some live close by; but it is not the spatial separation what determines how often we meet, talk, or spend time together: it is rather…

It's not hard to find scare stories about cell phones and brain cancer. On the other hand, numerous randomized, double-blind studies have debunked extreme claims of negative health effects of EMF…

I have been known to admit that I fell in love with cephalopods because they are the closest things to aliens coexisting with us on our home planet. (I love aliens.) Clearly I am not the only person…

Climate funds may cool heels of big bosses but can they cool the climate. Global climate change is a man made activity and without peoples participation the restoration of carbon balance is…

According to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, parents who try to teach responsible drinking to their children by letting them drink at home may be setting their teens up…

Based on new radiocarbon dating evidence for the Late Aurignacian of Portugal, an archaeological culture unquestionably associated with modern humans,  an international team of researchers…

A new study in Biological Chemistry suggests that Vitamin D, readily available in supplements or cod liver oil, may counter the effects of Crohn's disease. Researchers from McGill University and the…

Along with drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, a team of climate scientists says internationally coordinated research and field-testing on geoengineering the planet's atmosphere need to…

Whether prayer is supernatural or not, the common religious practice may generally benefit the Nine out of 10 Americans who say they pray. In a recent study appearing in Psychological Science,…