Physician John Smallberries said to me, “Twenty years ago, I didn’t even know what the word autism meant. It was rare.” But since then something has shifted.  Whether it was music, vaccines,…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/royluck/with/6134108264/ I’ve posted a blog about why GMO labeling is basically illogical.  If you take the time to read the actual proposition, there are at…

Secular humanists not feminist enough for you?  Atheism not social justice-y enough for you? Okay, on a science site you are stopping me right there and saying, "Isn't atheism just about…

"Man, know thyself" was the challenge of ancient Greek philosophers and it has been the goal of mankind since. Thousands of years later, neuroscientists are trying to decipher how the human brain…

Do plants have muscles?  Strictly speaking, no, but time-lapse photography shows that they can be quite thuggish in behaviour. Following last year’s BBC TV series on Blooming Botany and writing…

In a long-term marriage,  men tend to drink less than they did while single. That's good.  But women drink more, say sociologists.  The results are based on surveys and interviews, so…

Everybody seems to be talking about this new would-be particle, allegedly observed in diphoton decays in this paper by Kh. Abraamyan et al. at JINR, and consistent with an earlier claim of two…

Americans learned this week that the leader of the free world likes to brew his own “superb” beer. The Washington Post reported that President Obama likes microbrews “so much so that he bought a beer…

Here's an episode of "Futurama" waiting to happen; a nodosaur roamed suburban Washington about 110 million years ago and evidence has just been found. You'd think the ground near a sidewalk…

The recent discoveries that α-Synuclein(α-Syn), a central player in Parkinson´s disease (PD) brain destruction, can not only pass from one neuron to another but also exist outside neuronal cells…