How do we estimate the confidence range about an estimate?  In normal probability theory, we take a distribution and directly measure the dispersion within the data.  This…

The pesticides that farmers use to protect their crops have changed a great deal over the last few decades While improvement is something we expect from technologies as diverse as pharmaceuticals to…

Follow me on Twitter: @SteveSchuler20. Back in the day, some chemistry sets came with a mechanical centrifuge. They were operated similar to those old-timey pump style tin spinning toy tops. This is…

Researchers have decoded the whole genome sequence of one widespread species and it turns out to be remarkably big -  6.5 gigabytes, largest animal genome sequenced so far.  The…

By observing a high-speed component of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, an extraordinarily dynamic cluster with a total mass greater than 1015 (a million billion) times the mass of the…

Even "minimally buzzed" drinkers and drivers are more often to blame for fatal car crashes than the sober drivers they collide with, reports a University of California, San Diego study of accidents…

So the other day Julia Galef and I had the pleasure of interviewing mathematical cosmologist Max Tegmark for the Rationally Speaking podcast. The episode will come out in late January, close to the…

If you tried the martini diet, the tapeworm diet and going gluten-free, science has bad news; the popular blood type diet isn't going to work any better for you.  The 'blood-type' diet was…

Comic book heroes get into all kinds of crazy situations, everything from alien invaders to losing their powers. Most often, though, might simply makes right -  but what happens when the thing…

Everyone (who can count) will instantly recognise the numbers 1 2&3 in the picture below:Or will they? Well, no they won’t. All is explained in an article for Osaka Keidai Ronshu, Vol. 60 number…