Two days ago I discussed at ICFP 2012 the most recent results of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In the allotted time of my talk I could only cover few analyses, and I obviously…

It's a nightmare for Whole Foods shoppers; what if genetically modified crops produced by evil scientists who only care about profits for their employers (i.e., the same as every employee of Whole…

Chimpanzees, you are not alone.  The distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom is now a tie with the bonobo. An international team of researchers has sequenced the…

Think it takes James Webb Space Telescope money-pit type funding to do (or someday do) astronomy these days? Not so, some astronomers get it done with a lens equivalent to a digital camera. As the…

I just wrote an article talking about how limiting choice is framed as 'leading the way' when it comes to a pet belief - and anti-science Californians who insist any genetically optimized food is…

On Monday I did something that up until a few weeks ago I would have thought nearly impossible.I met in person with Texas Governor Rick Perry. Why might this have seemed highly unlikely until…

ArQule, Inc. and Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. announced final results from a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, phase 2 clinical trial with the selective MET inhibitor tivantinib  as a…

Do you want to ban cigarettes and legalize marijuana?  Did you cheer when a judge in one state broke the law regarding the Ten Commandments and hissed when a judge in another state broke the law…

AMSTERDAM, June 13, 2012  -- Elsevier has added a new enhancement to SciVal Strata, a web-based performance evaluation tool that allows users to conduct highly customized performance assessments…

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 13 -- In what is being billed as the world's largest international study of online consumer behavior, involving over 36,000 users (though that sounds low - we could easily…