Whether you are concerned about Mayans, a worldwide infrastructure collapse or an exploding supervolcano, science has some good news for your doomsday preparation - sunlight and a twist of lime…

Looking at the list of snarky puzzles, games with simple groups was a recurring theme. March 20, A Toy Model For Q8 Snarky puzzle What is required so that a system undergoing change can be described…

RELIGION     As the brief last chapter in this collection of essays, you as the reader may wonder why I’m dealing with religion now. The answer is that all the previous chapters…

A closed U.S. Government-requested meeting last month set out to determine the fate of two controversial unpublished papers on the H5N1 avian influenza virus but it was stacked in favor of their full…

It's taken decades but the U.S. Forest Service is finally being allowed to use science in managing America's natural resources. Instead of environmental activists tying up science and the government…

It was back in 2005 that inventor  Boris Volfson was granted a US patent for a device which has been erroneously summarised by some as a 'Flying Saucer'. But which is more accurately described…

It's called Knowledge and it's a short story by John Frizell in Nature. Did you know that Nature publishes short stories, one at the back of every issue? They do! No human could have grasped the…

Proteins are large, organic - in the science sense of organic, not the food marketing sense -  molecules that help us to convert food into energy, supply oxygen to our blood and muscles and…

When we are talking about anti-science beliefs that fall on the left and the right, we often use astrology and belief in ghosts for left-wing crazies.  But astrology may be as accurate as…

Evolution has various mechanisms and one of them is natural selection. While most religious people have no disagreement with science overall, Biblical literalists contend man cannot have changed or…