Politics 'makes for strange bedfellows', it is said, and we see new examples every day. A recent key example is an American political party that reviled a former Natural Resources Defense Council…

Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter…

The European rabbit is a common sight in the British countryside today. Yet it was not always so. They are not native to the British Isles and are one of the most devastating invasive species. The…

Yesterday I was delighted to receive in my mailbox another radiation spectrometer for testing, the Radiacode 110. Radiacode produces several radiation counters and spectrometers for personal /…

Many people want to feel secure in a relationship but that does not mean people perceive it the same way. It is a bit of a moving target, finds new survey results. Some feel that confidence in the…

Just a few short years ago, if you believed that weedkillers cause cancer, vaccines cause autism, and supplements were medicine, your political leaning was so predictable you draw a county-size…

It has never been easier for us to access images of people being harmed, maimed and killed. Two recent cases have focused on very different, prominent stories of sharing graphic footage of deaths.…

No, it is not. Please note! It goes back to Stan Ulam in the 1940s! Lately I am observing how many colleagues young and old --experimental particle physicists, mostly working at LHC experiments--…

Image Brush off your feet before leaving is an important safety precaution visiting cemeteries. One time my friends and I discovered Ivo Shandor…

There's an asymmetrical dilemma among native populations, say ecologists. They should be opposed to oil extraction, because they are told to be, but many are not. Instead, they welcome progress even…

This is the second post reporting a few tests of the Radiacode 110 spectrometer, an extra-cool pocket dosimeter/radiation counter/spectrograph sold by RadiaCode. I have had the chance today to test…

Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you.  Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good…

Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.…

In a new Lancet paper, 98 real urgent care patients corresponded with a Google DeepMind (Gemini et al.) medical LLM before their appointment with a physician. Though as a society we stopped doing…

In the 1970s, two major advances happened and they led to a renewed desire for the simpler time of folklore: GMO insulin and the Concorde supersonic jet. Though English activists hadn't invented the…

Among some people, a faith vacuum and distrust of AI has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like ghosts and astrology, while in others, a science vacuum has led to increased belief in suspect…

Image Recently I started a new peer-reviewed journal at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition research. The journal, titled "AI…

Hadron calorimeters are particle detectors meant to measure the total energy possessed by high-energy subatomic particles that hit their front face and develop a shower of secondary particles inside…