This week, we're running a breast cancer awareness week at my college--spearheaded by my students, friends, and me--to benefit the Hope Fund at Hendrick Hospital in Abilene, Texas, to provide free…

While the incidence of colon cancer has not dropped since 1978, deaths have.  Earlier diagnosis, better treatment? Perhaps healthier hot dogs. 2011 data from the SEER Cancer Statistics…

Does yoga help with chronic back pain?  Yes it does, but so does stretching.  Either is better than handing people a book, according to the largest U.S. randomized controlled trial of yoga…

Gravity continues to work fine, even though we don't know why. Newton wrote down the first calculus based description. Gravity worked at a distance for reasons beyond our reach. Einstein developed a…

Teens who drink more than five cans fizzy soft drinks per week - less than one per day - are significantly more likely to commit violence or carry weapons, suggests research in Injury Prevention,…

South Korea isn't the only place fishermen are worried about losing their squid. According to a recent article in Pakistan's The News,  Fast declining Mayyah catch (squid,…

This article eliminates the need for the Higgs. The quaternionic equation of motion of an elementary particle is in fact a continuity equation in which another quaternionic flavor ψʸ of the…

This morning I read with interest a paper on Physics Today, titled "Communicating the Science of Climate Change", by R. Somerville and S. Hassol. In it, there is a table worth pondering about. Here…

Donna Laframboise’s book “The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC” is out. Negative reviews on amazon are very helpful. Forget the positive…

A big puzzle has been solved with regard to fertile XY female Akodon. There are 3 types of X chromosomes noted amongst these XY fertile female Akodon. One type of altered X chromosome results in XY…