Charles Hatchett - Tribologist to the Royal Mint Charles Hatchett is widely known as the discoverer of Niobium, but he deserves recogniton for other acheivements also.  He was the first…

In all of the money and outreach trying to convince more Americans to become scientists, what is most often left out is we train lots of scientists that we then force to return home, where they…

Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein made black holes hot, my latest work shows just how cool they really are.   I have derived a formula for the temperature of a black hole which has the…

In 1992, some shipping containers got washed overboard on a trip from Hong Kong to Tacoma. Among the losses was one containing 28,800 plastic bath toys known as Friendly Floatees - frogs, turtles,…

Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelona have used data from astronomical surveys to measure a standard distance that is central to our understanding of the expansion…

Since it's Science 2.0, the most popular articles are not going to be the same as mainstream media, with Miracle Vegetables and Scare Journalism and outrage over an ESA engineer's shirt.  Like…

A new study by political science scholars has found one reason why women are less likely to run for political office - they will volunteer to lead but don't like competing to do so.  Prior…

It is often said that the middle of the road is the worst place to drive, yet centrists pride themselves on always arguing the opposite of whatever the conversation is. They believe we should split…

Why did the earliest farmers in the Fertile Crescent, an arc of land in western Asia from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, domesticate some cereal crops 10,000 years ago and not others? The…

How many kangaroos is too many? David Jenkins/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Brett Howland, Australian National University; David Lindenmayer, Australian National University, and Iain Gordon, James Hutton…