I don't watch reality performance shows because the few I have seen in America are rather predictable, people dancing or doing weird stuff and whatnot. But today, via Google Plus, I got a chance to…

A recent NY Times article echoes what I said last week in a meeting about a Science 2.0 television pilot - incredibly literate people who know a lot about science can't name a scientist. It's…

Science 2.0 is all about making a difference in a positive way, bringing lots of people in the world together to talk with each other about science.    We're the only open science site of…

The Posthumous Memoir of Ignaz Venetz #3 ... the voice of a faithful disciple of science is entitled to be heard. My continuing researches on the discovery of climate change show that prior to Ignaz…

Warning: this post contains no physics whatsoever, although some of you might still be interested in reading it...Relaxing in the hideaway of Elafonisos (see picture on the left) I am led to take a…

    Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations, and demands. For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life. Stress isn’t always bad. In small…

In general, human beings tend to be quite generous. As such, it is not a big step to question whether the same is true for our close evolutionary cousins, the chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). A new…

The strong equivalence principle is a stately beauty queen of an idea. In the simplest of dresses, she refuses to dance with any theory except general relativity. The mundane reason for mass is…

If you are a European who might be allergic to some compounds in cosmetics, you are out of luck.  In 2009, outside a few exceptions, the European Union banned the use of animals in cosmetic…

Rocks collected from the Franklin Mountains in West Texas and Coats Land in Antarctica have the exact same composition of lead isotopes, according to new research, the strongest evidence yet…