We humans spend roughly one-third of our lives asleep but researchers don't know why.  Science magazine listed the function of sleep is one of the 125 greatest unsolved mysteries in science and…

Next year begins one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history; the initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear…

We management professors are very conscious of the "professional school" label given to colleges of business, law, medicine, engineering, nursing, and education in diversified…

The Pacific Region of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, "the world's largest general scientific society") includes some of the best universities in the world, located on…

During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals walked the Earth. Most had four tusks and likely a trunk similar to modern…

Tomorrow, we are attending a mixer called The Science of Fine Wines.  This is a seminar/fundraiser for the Discovery Museum Science&Space Center in Sacramento so we're there to help with the…

The figure shown below represents the best measurement of the top quark mass ever obtained by a single experiment, and it is a determination with a less than 1% total uncertainty. It has been…

I'm not sure what Freeman Dyson has been smoking when he argues that cutting-edge genome science is ripe for hobbyists: The language of the genome is still an undeciphered script, like the Linear B…

The Lockerbie Injustice To those victims’ relatives who can bear to hear me say this: they continue to have my sincere sympathy for the unimaginable loss that they have suffered. To those who bear…

The National Center for Science Education has a report out on how evolution fares in the states (published in Evolution, Education, and Outreach.) Read the report to see how state science standards…

 A large number of hydrocarbon yielding plants like Calotropis procera, Euphorbia antisyphilitica have been reported to yield bio-fuel products. Attempts have been made to increase their growth…

Science has the power to enlighten, create and heal.  Science has helped decode the mysteries that surrounds us and translate that knowledge into objects are useful and possess a great amount of…

The first reported used of x-ray therapy to treat prostate cancer, which claimed to have an excellent result is done by Imbert and Imbert in 1904. The investigation of x-ray radiation for patient…

What is the difference between "intelligence" and "genius"?  Creativity, of course! There was an article recently in Scientific American that discussed creativity and the signs in children that…

Premier League clubs who have long-term managers are more successful than those who change their managers on a frequent basis, say business school researchers. Because there's nothing sports clubs…

The lowly appendix used to get no respect and was simply regarded as a useless evolutionary artifact but two years ago researchers at Duke University Medical Center proposed that it actually serves a…

Annoyed that your child schleps home 35 lbs. of books and settles in for 3 hours of homework per night?   Dreaming of an ancient time when teachers teached during the day? Nope.  Contrary…

Researchers at Virginia Tech believe they have solved the controversy over how the oldest complex life forms, which lived more than 540 million years ago, ate.    Osmosis, they say. The…

Science fact or urban legend?   If you get lost, you will walk in circles, just like you have seen in too many movies and TV shows to count. Fact, say researchers from the Multisensory…

Glasgow radiotherapy accident, 2006Treatment Date: January 5-31, 2006Location: Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomType of event: Radiation Therapy OverexposureDescription:A 15-year-old female patient…