Atheists can't figure out religious people. It shouldn't be that hard, religious people only believe in one more God than atheists, so they aren't all that different, while atheists only believe in…

Researchers have sequenced the genome of a man who was an Aboriginal Australian and used that to show that modern day Aboriginal Australians are the direct descendants of the first people who arrived…

Anti-science progressive alarmists have been on a rampage against Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastic used in many consumer products, because of concern it can mimic natural estrogen in…

HOBOKEN, New Jersey and PHILADELPHIA, September 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Niiki Pharma Inc. announced interim results from the ongoing Phase I clinical trial of its lead product, NKP-1339. NKP-1339…

 A poll on Mashable, unscientific but a talking point anyway, found nearly 75-percent saying they "hate" the Facebook news feed changes. But Mashable readers aside, how big a negative were the…

KYIV, Ukraine, September 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States of America are ready to provide Ukrainian research institutions with new technology in exchange for removal of highly enriched…

A hot new study in Nature has rearranged the molluscan family tree--with some surprising results! No one can deny that cephalopods (squids, octos, and cuttles) are the brains of the family, with…

"It's always darkest before the dawn."No, really?My replacement: "It's always darkest in a room with no windows and no lights on."Useful, huh? The textbook I use with my composition students advises…

The past months there's been some talk about modern humans interbreeding with Neaderthals (see, for example, this post). Today, I came across a nice video that succinctly summarizes the main findings…

The people with the atom smashers, especially the ones at OPERA (Oscillation Project with E-tR Apparatus) in Italy’s Gran Sasso, announced to likely have a whopping 60 nano second systematic error…