Though he is glorified by modern science advocates, Galileo was wrong about a lot of things - for example, when his calculation that the tides only happened once a day and was at the same time was…

Credit: Goldenrice.org By XiaoZhi Lim, Genetic Literacy Project The Green Revolution that began in the 1940s and 50s brought about large increases in crop yields and saved millions of people from…

As happened in both California and Washington state referendums in recent years, what seemed like an easy path to victory for supporters of a mandatory GMO labeling law in Oregon has turned into a…

Ready, set, type! Maksim Kabakou/Shutterstock By Sally O'Reilly, The Open University We live in a culture obsessed with speed: fast-food, Twitter, overnight celebrity, instant make-overs and cutting…

The "Cambrian explosion," the rapid diversification of animal life in the fossil record 530 million years ago, has by necessity remained the subjective of speculation. We know it happened, but no…

Last week, the Obama administration stated that it will fine over 2,600 hospitals because too many Medicare patients treated at those hospitals end up back in the hospital within 30 days of going…

California and Arizona recently began registering ‘benefit corporations.’ A small California non-profit university with which I’m acquainted has commenced the transition to for-profit, b-corp status…

SpaceShipTwo failed catastrophically during a test flight with a new motor killing 1 and injuring another who parachuted to safety.  It has been revealed that the deceased was Michael…

Resveratrol has long been touted in news outlets and health blogs as a 2000s miracle product, with little evidence it helps people. It instead benefited from a kind of 'Glaxo would not paid $720…

Source My colleague, Tony Troxell, has a blog called Geeking in Indiana with the tagline, “Movies, Tidbits, and General Geekery from Around Indiana.” Tony explains the purpose of his blog here. I…