Many of us agree that 'golf is a good walk spoiled' but not for the reasons a group of environmental lobbyists in San Francisco do.  The Wild Equity Institute, the Center for Biological…

Henry VIII, King of England and founder of the Anglican Church, was basically the Brad Pitt of his day when he was younger.   Charming, attractive and even kind, for a member of the Royal family…

Thousands of artifacts made from chert, a flint-like rock used to make projectile points and other stone tools, are in some cases so delicate that their only practical use would have been on the…

The smartest, and yet most disingenuous thing, the homeopathy industry did was conscript 'natural medicine' as part of its umbrella.    Homeopathy is clearly snake oil whereas natural…

If you saw the film version of "Mamma Mia!" you may have wondered why some of the actors could act, sing and dance and some, clearly, could not. A new study in Current Biology says that people who…

BOCA RATON, Florida, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Andrews Country Club releases a free branded iPhone app to attract new members and a fresh way to communicate events and activities to its…

TORONTO, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Casting Workbook, Canada's premier online casting software will launch a full Québécois French-language system on March, 9th 2011. Casting Workbook will be…

In a recent post I mentioned here that for the first of two feature articles I wrote for Physics World, and which just appeared in this month's issue (the first piece is actually available online…

Sunspots are dark spots on the sun, at least as we see them, caused by magnetic activity in the plasma on the surface of Sol. For 200 years scientists have known that they occasional disappear but no…

SAN LUIS OBISPO, California, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kawasaki Motors UK has partnered with retail-integrated eCommerce provider Shopatron to launch a new online store stocked with the very…