Museumomics ? Scientists using hairs from old, stuffed animals from museums to obtain historic DNA samples of a species, and then running...

The future is starting to arrive. The new issue of Nature (online June 26, 2011) and ScienceDaily bring the significant news that...

The Human Genome Project is one part of the stunning leaps in medical and biological science over the last 30 years. Today, lives are...

Certainty is valuable. Just ask entrepreneurs making decisions on where to invest or seeking to sell future cash flows for a multiple of...

Why support federally funded cancer research ? An expert article presents the case in brief, with the argument presented by George W....

Science beyond fiction. Think about that phrase. Think about the changes of the last hundred years. The last ten years. The last two...

It feels like science fiction. But, here is the ScienceDaily summary of an experiment – and success – in robots learning altruism and...

My 54th birthday brought an unexpected present. On April 29, 2011, the DC Circuit vacated the nation-wide injunction limiting stem cell...

Engineers are creating better software for managing massive amounts of information in visual form. ScienceDaily has the story on new...

News is out here and here on a paraplegic young man who is part of Geron’s first clinical trial on injecting stem cells to try to aid...

Lives can hang in the balance when reports are written to summarize the results of medical studies. Sadly, some scientists do commit...

Formaldehyde. IARC and now EPA have deemed it a "known carcinogen." Go here for a collection of EPA’s work on formaldehyde. The...

President Obama and others argue that better science will save time, money, and lives. Some doubt the argument, but it’s true. Here’s a...

After eight years of President Bush blocking and denying science, current threats to science arise from tea partiers who offer mindless...

Over the last couple of days, Chicago received 15-20 inches of snow from a massive storm spread across most of North America. For some...

Science continues to push ahead, and a recent example illustrates some of what lies ahead. Many (but not all) tort law rules include...

Hope Philosophers say it’s essential. Respected universities now teach positive psychology, and papers suggest it works. Where do humans...

The Economist recently teed off on the foolishness of trying to suppress embryonic stem cell research. Such a shame that church and...

Nature compiled this series of great images from science in 2010. My favorite, of course, is a photo of the Hartley 2 comet which...

Epigenetics. What is it? It’s a part of science which is going to matter to tort lawyers. In short, it’s what we presently label as the...