Apparently people are eating their pet's food, and they're getting salmonella poisoning in return. Or at least, that's the impression provided by the news coverage. The FDA started a "year-long…

It takes a little bit of madness to work in the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center at the National Zoo. Dr. Nico Dauphine has it in spades. Like often happens with zealots, love began to turn…

Wait, what? Don't we know, like, almost nothing about colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltonii)? How could we have any idea whether they need protection or not? On the other hand, the fact that we…

Were you buying it when Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands claimed meat was behind all the aggression we humans have?  Vegetarians were, sure, along with plenty…

At the Michael Jackson trial yesterday, the following exchange took place between the lead prosecutor and the Star defense witness, anesthesiologst Dr. Paul (Walter) White. Prosecutor: Dr. Shafer,…

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In an article published today in the European Respiratory Journal, results from a study on electronic cigarettes show users get as much…

LONDON, November 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery rewrites history after 140 years Press website (available from 12:00 GMT on 1/11/11): http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/dr.-livingstones-lost-1871-…

RETRACTION: I have decided to retract three blogs (Deriving … 4/5, 5/5, 6/5+1). I was unable to figure out a reasonable statement concerning gauge symmetry. When the blogs were initially written, I…

Yeah – Sascha Vongehr – yours truly – also known variously as attention craving publicity click whore or “$h*!-spammer” according to promptly censured commentators, has now finally achieved his only…

Just a couple of weeks ago, some Brazilian fishermen found two giant squid! Here's a video of one: They were ">longlining, so I'm not exactly sure how they got these squid--usually when…