Here's a little history, since some of my students are starting to look me up on the web.  It's also a story about how life is so weird that, if you wrote about it in a movie, the audience would…

I know that there are plenty of liberals and progressives that are scientific whacko's and embrace many anti-scientific sentiments.  I'm certainly not about to defend them, but .... Something…

I've been hearing about issues with seafood labeling (and mislabeling) for years. As it turns out, if you don't have a PCR machine in your kitchen, there's no way to know if the red snapper you…

Quick, have you heard of Professor Curie?  How about Marie Curie? If you're reading this article, you may have known who I meant with the first one, but how many of you instinctively thought of…

As you circle Earth from your polar-orbiting perch 512 miles above, may your daily output of 4 terabytes of data enable the Science 2.0 community to help educate the masses about climate change.…

In the following TED-talk, cancer researcher Jay Bradner talks about the work in going on in his lab. How they approach understanding the way cancer works, how they proceed in designing potential…

A process which caught some of the LHC Higgs analysts by surprise in the recent run of analyses for summer 2011 conferences is the production of multiple-lepton events by a process called "internal…

 A 400 meter, C-type asteroid will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth on November 8, 2011.  The attached animated illustration shows the Earth and moon flyby geometry for…

The Hayward fault runs smack dab through the UC Berkeley football stadium; it is being retrofitted this year. In the last week, there have been 3 earthquakes on or near the campus, with a magnitude…

On Nov. 8th, Mississippi will vote on a proposed 'personhood' constitutional amendment that will outlaw the destruction of embryos created in laboratories. The amendment has been endorsed by both…