For most of the past 50 years, archaeologists thought they knew how humans arrived in the New World. At the end of the last ice age, sea levels dropped and big-game hunters living in eastern Siberia…

“Let’s play “Jeopardy.” Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?” According to Chris Mooney’s…

A new imaging study shows the brains of embryonic chicks can 'wake' long before chicks are ready to hatch out of their eggs - but it took loud, meaningful sounds. Playing meaningless sounds wasn't…

I love four things about this story. First: there is an All England squid catching championship. Did you know that? I did not know that. Second: the weather this year was so bad the competitors were…

Andrea Kuszewski is not a fan of a critique of some concepts in Chris Mooney's latest book, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality. Give it a read. Once she gets…

At about the 1 minute mark in a youtube Yale Lecture, titled The Taylor Series and Other Mathematical Concepts, the teacher tells his class that he will be presenting the Taylor Series and the class…

A surprising number of scientists defy the 'liberal' stereotype and are more libertarian than they are given credit for (including by conservatives and liberals) - no surprise there, liberal and…

It's been said that science fiction can sometimes turn into science fact. In that same vein, it may be that stories from The Onion (More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder…

To the couple of positions I posted yesterday from the Chess Tournament I played this weekend, let me add one I played on round II, when I was white against Fausto Scali, the blind player. The…

We carry some press releases on Science 2.0 and of course that is what Science Codex in our sidebar is. It's been an intentional effort since the communications arm of Science 2.0 began in 2006. The…