HIV pays a price for invisibility

HIV pays a price for invisibility

Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus's ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine…
When Salmonella Met Pistachio

When Salmonella Met Pistachio

If it happened once, can it happen again? Yes, it can but we would still desire pistachio nuts sans Salmonella. Beyond our poetic pistachio passion, these tasty nuts are…
The Rock And The Hard Place Of Homer

The Rock And The Hard Place Of Homer

The Rock And The Hard Place Of Homer The well-known expression: 'between a rock and a hard place' almost certainly has its earliest origins in Homer's Odyssey. In that saga, Ulysses has to take his…
Dracula is Back! As a Fish?

Dracula is Back! As a Fish?

Dracula is back. Turns out he's a fake! Or at least a fake vampire-like fish. A newly discovered freshwater carp-like minnow has been aptly named, Danionella Dracula, for it's vampire-like…
Future Nobel Prize-winning shop

Future Nobel Prize-winning shop

Aspirations of winning the Nobel? Maybe a purchase at this shop will help you along your journey. Or at least you can say you knew the shop back when it was just a little shop in Philadelphia,…
New insights into progressive hearing loss

New insights into progressive hearing loss

In parallel studies in human and mouse, two groups of researchers have come to the same conclusion: that a new kind of gene is associated with progressive hearing loss. The new gene - called a…
Read Some Science On Easter

Read Some Science On Easter

On a science site, we can make anything about science, including religious holidays.    Of course, there are some things that we can never know, because they involve the subjective nature…
Why Does Religion Still Exist?

Why Does Religion Still Exist?

There was a time when it was virtually impossible not to believe in God.   That made sense; life had (and certainly still has) many mysteries and a divine hand made sense of an irrational world,…
Using Encryption to Block Spam

Using Encryption to Block Spam

Using Encryption to Block Spam Tackling the problem of spam is a problem in communication. If spam is noise as against wanted communications, then the spam problem is a signal to noise filtering…
Some Scientific Blogging Interface Hints

Some Scientific Blogging Interface Hints

Every once in a while people ask me about various features or functionality so, since it's a Saturday on a holiday weekend and there won't be as many people reading as usual (who want good science…
African Killer: Carcharodontosaurus Iguidensis

African Killer: Carcharodontosaurus Iguidensis

Afraid of  being eaten alive? Most folks are. Lucky for those living in Nigeria today the dinosaurs went extinct some 65 million years ago. Had they lived on, one of the fiercest meat-eating…