A short note to mention that starting today, and until Friday, I will be blogging from the "Neutrino Telescopes" conference in Venice. This is a conference dedicated to the study of neutrinos, and…

The LHCb collaboration published on the Cornell Arxiv yesterday a preprint describing the observation of a rare decay of the B_c meson. In this landscape of failed SUSY searches,  no-shows of…

Cell phones and cancer, nuclear power and cancer, GMOs and...cancer. If there is an anti-science position, someone in Europe is embracing it, and food is no different. But practicality sometimes…

A year ago, raw milk believers thought the Indiana General Assembly was going to allow raw milk to be sold in the state - instead they got a new requirement that raw milk be labeled as “not for human…

There's a bit of a scandal in Europe due to horse meat being passed off as other kinds. Imagine the shock in Iceland, where its 320,000 people list horse meat from its 100,000 horses as a chief…

A culture that digs up dead female corpses to bury with single deceased men has unsurprisingly embraced probiotics. Starting in the 1990s,  the fast-growing yogurt, supplement, pharma and feed…

It had been shown that the origin of pumpkins and cucumbers can be traced back to India and a new genetic analysis has updated that data.  Compared to grains and pulses, vegetables are under-…

Is your body shape predetermined? Some role for heritage is obvious and there efforts to fix people into an epigenetic destiny as well but it may be that diet and exercise can only do so much. A new…

A protein known as mini-chromosome maintenance (MCM) has been found to change DNA topology and make DNA twist up into a so-called "supercoil". Supercoiling can be thought of as similar to…

Video games can be difficult, even frustrating at the harder levels. That is part of their appeal. It turns out that frustrated people are attracted to video games also. The temptation to steal or…