Wikipedia's user-generated content has made it the world's largest, and most derided, encyclopedia. Part of the openness model has also led to 'edit wars' when the anonymous "editors" disagree with…

The fun folks of Nerd Nite San Francisco invited me to straighten out all the hilarious squid sperm news with a mini-talk last Wednesday. I was honored! Nerd Nite SF: Squid Spermatophore mini-talk…

For science credibility about biology, who means more? For GMOs Against GMOs US National Academy of Sciences PETA  UN World Health Organization  Sierra Club  US Department of…

Professor Richard Dawkins, the bestselling author who has been wrong about biology as often as he has been right, is taking Edward O. Wilson, Science 2.0's favorite myrmecologist, to task for…

The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is still working its way through the courts. The US government is pressing ahead with its $18 billion legal action despite the oil giant’s $7.8 billion…

Political scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives finally passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists.…

As we near the first week of July, with the start of the International Conference of High-Energy Physics in Melbourne (July 2nd-8th) and the July 4th press release at CERN on the new results of Higgs…

Using 160 high-resolution tungsten leaves and dramatically faster leaf movement, Elekta’s new Agility multi-leaf collimator (MLC) radiation therapy treatment for cancer patients recently received 510…

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is enjoying increasing popularity all over the world - to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, making it Big Business. Yet there are concerns.…

A new study shows that ursolic acid, a natural substance found in apple peel, can partially protect mice from obesity and some of its harmful effects. Obviously ursolic acid, a lipophilic…