The last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour will be both manned and squidded. The most famous science experiment on board, of course, will be the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will set up…

If you’ve been managing type 2 diabetes for a while, you know that current advice is to maintain your glucose levels at 7 percent or less, as this is where blood glucose levels are for non-diabetics…

If you are in science and you have heard the name Paul Feyerabend, it is likely because you have heard the term "post-modernist" and, if you know about post-modernism, you likely do not think much of…

Apple now admits that iPhones store location information and plan a patch to scale back their data collection but also say it was no big deal.   Steve Jobs, however, reportedly claimed “We don’t…

European scientists are taking to the people to protest the European Court of Justice (ECJ) which would ban patents on embryonic stem cell-related technologies. Their contention; it would hurt large…

The interest for the tentative new signal of a Higgs decay to photon pairs does not seem to cease. Yesterday I gave a short interview to Fabio De Sicot, on the latest Higgs rumour. Fabio works for an…

Last night on PBS's NewsHour, Robert MacNeil answered viewers' questions. ROBERT MACNEIL: Well, perhaps he's right.We tried to concentrate on what we thought were urgent issues, urgent problems…

Another comment on the ATLAS rumour is worth mentioning today, even if it comes a bit late, because it is written by Jon Butterworth, who is a ATLAS collaborator who also writes for the Guardian. You…

One finds it difficult to raise trees in the sodic or saline soils with a calcareous hard pan. Some years ago I suggested that Neem and Shisham trees could be successfully raised in that kind of soil…

It's not exactly news--the Navy's decision to fund a huge, interdisciplinary research project on squid skin is so last year--but the topic cropped up again and started me wondering: why do squid use…