Amazing how some of our elected representatives think their religious abstractions are an excuse to seek to take us backwards in science....

Courtesy of this post at Marginal Revolution, here’s the link to a story on progress on a computer controlled car being tested in Berlin,...

It seems obvious that athletes go faster when competing against marginally better competitors. Now it’s been proven in an experiment...

This post by Dr. Wendy Harpham provided a link to an interesting article in Atlantic related to a new book on intense beliefs perhaps...

Another cool new science tool. Now scientists at Caltech and Howard Hughes are starting to be able to see inside a cell during the moment...

This New York Times article reports on initial follow-up studies on disease among firefighters who worked at the 9/11 site. The...

Story telling with pictures is powerful, and data visualization is only getting better. Courtesy of the Marginal Revolution, consider the...

Updated The NYT now includes this Nicholas Wade article on the new science described below. The article provides history and context on...

This recent Gina Kolata article in the NYT recently highlighted transformative scientific change – molecular epidemiology for bacteria...

Some parts of history increasingly involve science. Last month there was news of "museumomics" – using DNA from museum samples to look...

Funny how things work out. This morning’s first post addressed scientific research, data sharing and full disclosure as a means for...

There is evidence of positive karma in the world. Prior posts here and here cover Doug McConnell swimming the English Channel (thirty...

Update Doug is now the 48th person over 50 to swim the Channel !! The journey was over thirty miles and 14hours. The ALS fundraising also...

Where will science take us, and how fast ? Do legislators, courts and lawyers really need to think today about scientific changes...

The invitation/appeal pasted below also is online here. In short, it’s an invitation/appeal to be part of an expert prediction team as...

Who says Americans are afraid of sharing genomic information, especially when it’s analyzed in bits? 100,000 Kaiser Permanente patients...

Regenerative medicine is now one more step down the path. Japanese scientists have now used stem cells to grow mouse teeth in a...

As science grows, so do patent disputes – especially in the worlds of biotechnology and computers. The Supreme Court of the United...

Lacking an influential religious right wing, Canada is a leader in stem cell research. Indeed, much of the fundamental, early proof of...

This post of a few days ago focused on some groundbreaking work referred to as "museumomics" – that is, using hairs from old museum...