The world cannot afford major diseases, and should be investing heavily in science. Yet, in the US, we see "budget hawks" blindly arguing...

Tuesday was an especially good day for science in the US. One positive was the Administration announcing an additional $ 50 million of...

History and science include stories of too many inhumane "experiments" undertaken by old white guys perhaps convinced the ends would...

Here’s some incentive to stick with that resolution to exercise more often. Researches in Boston at Dana-Farber have made it into Nature...

How is that we so readily and unintentionally find images of "faces" in clouds, tree bark and myriad other locations? Some of the...

As the $1,000 genome is arriving, so are print editions of the third edition of theReference Manual on Scientific Evidence. As a...

Not so many years ago, my sister was a bench scientist sequencing genes by hand. One weekend, she mentioned that she and others from Salk...

Thinking about New Year’s Resolutions? Please consider two that may actually save a human life. Both resolutions are easy to fulfill. For...

As year end 2011 arrives, a powerful and popular book is Thinking Fast and Slow, by 2002 Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a research...

Various authors, including Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, are mentioning a January 2012 book on how economics shapes the ways that...

For hundreds of years, scientists assumed that only the dose made the poison, and that more was always worse. Scientists also paid scant...

Here is good news for current and future victims of dread diseases and injuries – the EU has rejected patents on embryonic stem cells....

For scientists, data is key. So, it’s relevant to note that we are close to the day of commercially managed but freely accessible DNA...

This post on the Patent Doc blog brings the news that legislators in Australia are seeking to amend the patent statutes to explicitly...

Nobel Prize week started today with the prize in Medicine shared among three researchers who made fundamental discoveries about the...

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...