New research in Nature has a surprising conclusion; the impact of deforestation on global warming varies with latitude, which at least explains a frustrating lack of warming in the U.S. even though…

Turkey Day is coming, and with it, the deadline for Obama’s 12-member “Super Committee,” a group of Congress members tasked with carving $1.2 trillion off our national debt. If the bipartisan group…

Here I will give you a rundown of papers that have made it to pre-print which point out these errors.  Much will be written about CERN’s latest numbers, allot of it will not spend much time on “…

After a more careful reading of the paper, the listening to a seminar on the result, and some discussions, I can share with you a few more details on the Opera measurement. The jitter: as you can…

LONDON, November 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AstraZeneca today announced that the Marketing Authorisation Application for CAPRELSA (vandetanib) received a positive opinion from the Committee for…

Planet Earth: Extreme Beauty – Extreme Danger The story about the newlyweds who went on a trip one could arguably characterize as a Honeymoon From Hell swirled around in the news-world for some time…

Fresh results from the OPERA collaboration once more confirm the faster than light neutrinos indicated by MINOS. The new findings, available here, also further strengthen a particular scenario: The…

The Arxiv apparently messed up and the new OPERA article on the neutrino speed measurement cannot be accessed there yet. However, you can get your copy at this link. You will be prompted for the…

One of the biggest difficulties in understanding and acceptance of evolutionary biology is the eye.  It isn't just detractors who are trying to protect a sectarian viewpoint, it is genuinely…

UPDATE: some technical considerations on the measurement are available in a followup post I wrote after attending a seminar on the new result today. In particular, one startling consideration emerges…