Global warming and more water would be good for surfers, right?  Nope.  Did you see any surfing in "Waterworld" or"The Day After Tomorrow"?  Nope, because higher sea levels mean…

Being able to print electronic equipment has led to a cost-effective device that could change the way we interact with everyday objects - namely by using a phone's emitted radio waves for wireless…

Can't tell a $4 bottle of wine from a $40 one?  Neither can the best sommeliers in the world.  But in the future you might at least seem like an expert, thanks to the power of semantic…

Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden recently set out to test the unwritten rule of the sea that, during maritime disasters, women and children are first in the lifeboats. What they found…

Excuse my use of the personal pronoun in this short article, but I am writing to get input as much as I am to simply observe a phenomenon. I am increasingly drawn to the connection between bench…

Dark matter, up to 25 percent of the universe, hasn't actually been found. It is a hypothesis, though not an unreasonable one, given that something must create a gravitational force. But science has…

There are calls in some quarters that we need to be more like people in the past; war, pestilence, disease, early death, it's all good as long as we use no pesticides. And clear cutting forests is…

Affinium Pharmaceuticals announced today that full recruitment has been achieved in its multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating oral AFN-1252 in acute bacterial skin&skin structure…

Another disabled person denied a transplant because of his disability. Another petition in hopes of changing the hospital's decision (go sign it, please). After the last time, with Mia…

In the last year, I've had the occasion to review several books that deal with the unconscious mind. Each author has had an interesting take on the same material, and it's been illuminating to see…