In the post-genomic era, 'omic' technology, and marketing claims to match, promise to understand the biology of various diseases. Metabolomics seeks to look at the chemical fingerprints that cellular…

I experienced the highest density of colleagues with background from astrophysics when I worked at the Norwegian Mapping Authority. Mapping seems like an earthly matter, per definition, but it never…

Astronomers using  using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, and data from NASA's Spitzer and WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer)…

TrackingPoint isn't just making a “smart gun”, they are making a “Precision Guided Firearm.” It has a computerized scope that provides a hunter with metrics like wind speed, incline, temperature,…

Why has less than half of the USA gotten a flu shot, when 41 states have reported widespread, severe outbreaks of the flu? Some of the reason is availability. They aren't going to make any more,…

The Smithsonian  wants some help in making their citizen science efforts a little more relevant to the public.  So if you are not a zoologist and can take their eMammal Survey it will help…

"Melanie's Marvellous Measles", which says measles are good for kids, went up for sale at Bookworld, Australia's largest online bookstore, and the backlash for the science and medical community was…

Astronomers have used the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes to simultaneously to peer into the stormy atmosphere of the brown dwarf called  2MASSJ22282889-431026, creating the most detailed "…

The Obama administration has terminated the Microbiological Data Program created under President George W. Bush and his 2001 Food Safety Initiative. During its run, MDP conducted 80 percent of all…

The Earth's core formed under more oxidizing condition's than previously believed, researchers have discovered through of series of laser-heated diamond anvil cell experiments at high pressure - 350,…