Federal Court of Canada has issued a default judgment against Doug Van Verdegem, and Bar V Farms Ltd. of Strathmore, Alberta, for patent infringement pertaining to the Roundup Ready gene in canola.…

Until last week, I worked at a food truck downtown. We sold grilled cheese and milkshakes. One of the unusual things about this particular food service job was that the owner used customer comments…

What do anti-science groups do that science never seems to do? Trot out naked women. PETA - constantly, Greenpeace - sure, using cheescake to raise money for their corporate agenda is nothing new…

The sleeping patterns of baby birds are similar to that of baby mammals they even appear to change in the same way as it does in humans. Studying barn owls in the wild, researchers from the Max…

The K Computer has been used by researchers from the RIKEN HPCI Program for Computational Life Sciences, the Okinawa Institute of Technology (OIST) in Japan and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany to…

In August 8th, the VERIS rocket is going to launch from the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. VERIS is short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and its 15-minute trip will…

There are two ways to influence the public - basically carrots and sticks. A stick is, of course, taxes and fees and regulations and armed federal agents at your house should you choose not to obey…

In this Hubble Space Telescope composite image taken in April 2013, the sun-approaching Comet ISON floats against a seemingly infinite backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars…

Verification Junkie is a growing directory of apps, tools, sites and strategies for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of social media and user generated content. Says creator Josh…

In the upside-down is back-and-forth and cows-can-whinny department, we present the new head of the EPA saying that by taking over control of CO2 emissions and allowing unelected partisan officials…