This is totally cool! Scotland's leading marine energy test centre has opened its doors to a new generation of developers to test prototype machines, one of which is aiming to harness wave energy…

LED bulbs will finally be bright enough to replace 100-watt incandescent light bulbs but there is a problem - they will cost $50 each.  And won't be available until after the ban.  And they…

Is going through one of the TSA porno-scanners (now at selected airports near you!) really safer than eating a banana?   Let's hope so.   If you object, you are going to get groped, even if…

First, a cultural fact: The NFL Draft can be seen for three solid days by every cable subscriber in America.   This is hours and hours of nothing but 30 seconds of reading out a name punctuated…

The 2010 miniseries from the UK, Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World ships for Americans May 31st. I wrote about it in Geniuses Of Britain - The First Five, detailing the…

A new paper in Nature says the most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are "fundamentally flawed" and overestimate extinction rates by as much as 160 percent. Obviously…

A team of scientists say they have uncovered the basis for drug resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer.  Acute lymphoblastic leukemia accounts…

I have been meaning to give a summary of my experience as a judge at The Ohio Academy of Science for the State Science Day (May 7, 2011) - for, I think, the…

Cosmic Embryo #5:  Aiming for the moon with all rockets blazing? A critique of Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®   The multibillion dollar breast cancer enterprise has just issued its damning…

A question posed by Tony Smith in the thread of the previous post (which dealt with the choice of the bin width in histograms) triggered me to do a little work to produce a convincing answer to him.…