Professor  Robert G Brown of Duke University makes a number of significant points at WUWT that I feel needed to be reposted here, with his permission. Let me set the stage. By Christopher…

In September 2006 I was in Ponta Delgada, the main town of the island of San Miguel in the Azores, for a physics conference where I was presenting results of the CDF experiment. I remember listening…

Since posting this I have discovered that the difference signal I was looking at was not daily minimum temp, but daily maximum temp. A new analysis of minimum temps will be found here. Climate…

I am a firm believer that simulations improve reality.  If you want to launch a CubeSat, you should start with a fictional CubeSat, a very small orbiting satellite concept.  After deciding…

So. We have seen lots and lots of research articles on how agonist can cause cell proliferation. Figure 1 is a nice dose-response graph showing how estrogen induces proliferation of breast cancer…

Modern science may seem slow and incremental but, as has always happened, small steps lead to awkward leaps and bounds - and revolutions.  It's why we make goat noises at people who claim their…

If you discovered water that could be millions or billions of years old, what would you do with it? Drink it, of course. A researcher who analyzed water found in a Canadian mine in Timmins, Ontario,…

The Science of Law   Scattered throughout the pages of the history of the common law are many references to it being a science.  Science may be called the pursuit of fact by means of well-…

Attention, activist groups: Open-minded people don't change their view when you control what they learn and they only get one side of the issue, according to a new paper, so framing can only take you…

While there's no question there is biology in taste buds, actual wine testing has proven to be in the astrology and psychological assessment range of accuracy. Most people are not able to discern…