One of the more whimsical squid news stories I've seen in a while: A squid, a dog, and a mini-mystery solved at a Minnesota lake."Of course, squid are not found in Minnesota lakes," reports…

After WikiLeaks released classified and sensitive government documents, predictions of the scale and significance of their impact were overstated. The desire/hope of proponents that the WikiLeaks…

A device the size of a home washing machine uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity - and also clean up the sewage at the same time.  Current wastewater treatment…

Dr. Heidi Ledford at Nature says physicists enjoy more generous funding, more commercial interest and more popular support than biologists.   Thousands of physicists in the United States stopped…

In America, we don't eat cats or snails or brains but a lot of food choices are just cultural.  So it may be with afterbirth. Placentophagia may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to…

Previous posts, examined possible plant cognitive functions with the Dodder’s parasitism and the complex ability plants have to communicate with other plants and fungi. More impressive are the…

Previous posts, examined possible plant cognitive functions with the Dodder’s parasitism and the complex ability plants have to communicate with other plants and fungi. More impressive are the…

Krafla, in the north of Iceland, is a caldera ten kilometers wide. It is basically a geological cauldron, created when the core of a volcano collapsed in the distant past. The crater Víti (it means “…

We'd have to be crazy not to want more solar power - the Sun is limitless energy and, as time and research tackle the science and technology issues, it will get a lot more efficient. In 2005, when…

If the government can make you buy something, why can't it make you buy anything?  You may one day need health care so if they can make you buy health insurance now, why can't they make you buy…