There's no greater feel-good fallacy than the belief that organic food is somehow superior to conventionally farmed food. In reality, organic food isn't more environmentally responsible, it is worse…

On Christmas Eve, the Russian research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy, on an Antarctic expedition to duplicate a voyage 100 years ago, the 1911-to-1913 voyage of Australian explorer Douglas Mawson to…

Is there such a thing as moral expertise? Good question, right? I’ve been thinking more about it for a few weeks now as a result of an interesting talk by Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University) entitled…

What does science discover when 70 dogs are allowed to relieve themselves in the open country without being on a leash? That they have something in common; dogs prefer to do their business while in a…

The April 10th, 2013 landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest non-volcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and…

Mexico is considered one of the leading countries in papaya production but its crops are affected by the virus of the ringed spot, which leaves ring marks in the skin of the fruit and causes…

Chronic unemployment, dependence on government welfare and internal social division are the result of Canadian social welfare for natives - despite the substantial resources devoted, according to a…

This blog is straight old Newtonian gravity. A goal is to understand where the three kinds of masses in Newton's Universal Law of Gravity live in the context of the action. In the force equation,…

Want yogurt but don't like the exploitation of dairy cows? Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València have some good news. They have used  plant-based “milks” to create products…

A new estimate says that up to 80 percent of scientific data is lost within two decades. The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices. For the analysis, the scholars attempted to…