Sex determination is obviously an important developmental event with great ecological and evolutionary consequences. A large variety of sex determination mechanisms exists, and the evolution of many…

The highest paid player in baseball has the last name "Rodriguez" and 3 of the top 10 highest paid players in major league baseball are black - but major league umpires are racist, argues Johan…

The Maxwell equations govern light, electricity and magnetism as a trinity. The Big Goal for the next five weeks is to understand my variations on those equations. I want readers to see both the…

Deep Web Interferometry compares curves in trendlines from synchronized multiple data sources.  Interferometric analysis of Web metrics data increases the clarity of meaningful data points by…

One long-standing myth is that any law claiming to be good for the environment is actually good for the environment.   Anyone living along levees in the South who watched environmental lawsuits…

A Brief History of Arctic Warming Prior to the golden age of global exploration, during which America was first settled, little was know about the Arctic regions or even about climate science in…

The HARPS team today announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, including 16 super-Earths - the largest number of such planets ever announced at one time. One of…

We all know a high-fat diet is going to be bad for most people, but why? A study in mice showed that those lacking the gene-expression-controlling enzyme HDAC3 that were fed a high-fat diet…

What would you say if an oil company said it wanted to invest in alternative energy research but the cost was too much so it needed public financing - but wanted no accountability or timeframes or an…

Extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf dubbed 2MASS J21392676+0220226, or 2MASS 2139 for short, may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old brown dwarfs and…