You've seen it on television; a rich, older man who supports a younger, attractive spouse. And it happens in real life, but it's rare. Instead, a new analysis by economists has found that people…

British Radar in WW2 -  by Sir Robert Watson-Watt I am pleased to be able to publish here in my blog a historical document of some importance: a short history of radar by Sir Robert Watson-Watt…

Hawaii does not get a lot of hurricanes, only two have made landfall in the last 30 years. But scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa predict that…

What do science media and politics of 2013 share in common with 2006? Anti-science beliefs among the public? Check.Scientists willing to call them out? Check.Scientists and science media noting the…

With the Higgs boson in the bag, the game called "global fit" that particle physicists have been playing for a couple of decades has changed significantly. The knowledge of the Higgs boson mass…

Alerted by a link on Real Clear Science, I turned to an article on Slate.com, namely Felony Science Sixteen-year-old Kiera Wilmot’s curiosity was apparently piqued when a friend told her that if you…

The World Is Getting Cooler* *  Not!This is something of a pre-emptive strike against the quote miners of this world.  I predict that they will use a new study of cloud seeding to sell ice…

Bullying and violence are the latest cultural magnet for administrators in schools around the country, but the solution may not be paid commercials, more books or talks in the gym - it may be as…

Natural emissions and man-made pollutants have an unexpected effect; they make clouds brighter and have a cooling effect on the world's climate. A quick primer: Clouds are made of water droplets,…

Researchers were able to controll seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells into the hippocampus, which inhibit signaling in overactive…