Those working on quantum gravity have to accept the fact they are unlikely to ever compete for a Nobel in physics. No matter how brilliant and how widely accepted the contribution, a Nobel prize in…

SAN DIEGO, February 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Test May Help Reduce Unnecessary Repeat Prostate Biopsies -- Gen-Probe announced today the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its…

You read that right.  Not 15 months old.  15 minutes. A team of doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital determined the girl, diagnosed in the womb with a severe…

I'm stoked to be joining the blogging team at KQED QUEST--a Northern California science multimedia extravaganza! My first post went up yesterday. As you can see, it required extremely rigorous and…

Good news for flapjack junkies.  For 15 hours on February 28th,  you can get some free pancakes at IHOP and raise some money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. It's National…

There recently appeared on Scientific American Blogs an article by Jennifer Ouellette Don’t Be Dissin’ the Bohr Model! in which she deplores the frequent occurrence, among those who have recently…

A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology wanted to see whether speaking French (being bilingual…

Samsung wants to give away a lot of money for STEM projects in local schools and we all probably agree that is a good thing.  But there is no such thing as a free lunch so they want to give it…

Americans of a particular cultural and political persuasion like to regard Europeans as 'more' scientific because surveys reveal that they say 'yes' to the appropriate buzzwords.  Not so, even…

There are two ways to determine the height of the tallest possible running, breathing organism on planet Earth – one is to measure it – the other to calculate it from scratch. The groundwork for the…