In the summer of 2018, the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft arrived at the Ryugu asteroid and in October of that year sent out the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander to gather information about the…

I didn't even know Scientific American Blogs still existed. They do, they were just irrelevant and no one remembered until a few days ago. Given their recent foray into nonsense, it can be the next…

Increased consumption of omega 3 fats is widely promoted because of a recent belief that it will protect against, or even reverse, conditions such as type 2 diabetes.  Fads always start with a…

When I was a youngster, I typed on a 1950s portable typewriter.  I was not a hipster, I was poor. But I loved to write. When I got older our school had a computer lab but typing out…

America is producing more Ph.D.s than ever but federal funding for academic grants cannot keep pace with the expansion in university halls, bolstered by well-financed Science, Technology, Engineering…

The following table shows differences in responses to the science module of items deployed by the GSS during 2004 and 2006* by partisan identification. Some of the questions are inverted for viewer…

An influential psychological theory, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have been debunked, writes Daniel Engber, and then "how can so many scientists have been so wrong?" It sounds like a…

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/11/lies-dirty-tricks-and-45-million-k... This past election, California voters shot down an initiative to put labels on GMO foods, which adds to a puzzle about…

A few years ago, a study by the British Cheese Board queried 200 volunteers on whether or not they had nightmares after eating cheese prior to bedtime. Nary a one did.  Why would they ask such a…

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http://www.sciencecodex.com/node/68900/edit?destination=admin%2Fcontent%... http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1767/20131193.short?r... It's election season and that means you will…

It's the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's polemic, "Silent Spring", which means there will be no end to her 'impact'. Impact, of course, can be good or bad.  Carson is considered the…

Americans love tradition and there is no greater tradition than the idea that if you can't be fired, you will do better work. Okay, that is actually the antithesis of America, but in the late 1700s…

What is sure to happen, since 50% of science funding is politically controlled, is that a giant wave of new PhDs will get teary stories on the floor of Congress and outraged Senators declaring that X…

Making fun of Michele Bachmann, when NCCAM is zealously protected by Democrats, only tell us how you vote. In December of 2012 when various members of Congress ranted at the CDC about vaccines and…

If you want to go into the clergy, study science It may sound strange to young scientists ot today who are thoroughly steeped in the culture wars before they get a bachelor's degree, but…

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/10030/title/What-P... Decades on, bacterium’s discovery feted as paragon of basic science MADISON, Wis. – Over time, the esoteric and sometimes…

And there is the beauty and the ugliness of it. Politicians, especially the ones you vote for, don't need to give you more funding because you are not going anywhere. It's the same mentality the WWE…

A recent paper uses neuromarketing techniques - basically, electrodermal activity to detect fluctuations in the emotional and attentional state of subjects in response to commercial stimuli - to try…

Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hinted a restriction on menthol in cigarettes might again be coming - and the stock markets reacted as expected, reading a government restriction as…