The concept of ‘phylogenetic inertia’ is routinely deployed in evolutionary biology as an alternative to natural selection for explaining the persistence of characteristics that appear sub-optimal…

We can complain about the knowledge of Americans (while simultaneously complaining that modern school efforts 'teach the test' and focus on facts rather than on critical thinking) but Russians are…

When the shootings in Arizona occurred, various pundits in the media jumped on 'right ring radio' and 'culture of hate' (meaning conservative news programs) despite the fact that the shooter was not…

In the somewhat irrational war on incandescent light bulbs, one thing left out is that the current alternatives are not great yet either.   If you break a CFL bulb, you'd better call in a HazMat…

TORONTO, February 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ElectionReady, a provider of election automation and optimization strategy and software solutions announced the availability of a free election assessment…

Sure, it will be fodder for the "Republicans hate science' segment of science blogging (i.e. 98% of science blogging) but the days of pretend money are officially over.  No more just printing…

Embarassingly overdue, the slides of my talk on "Heavy Flavour and Quarkonia Production in 7 TeV pp Collisions", meant for the 2011 Les Houches meeting on "Recent Advances in QCD" to be held next…

The existence of functional, non-protein-coding DNA is all too frequently portrayed as a great surprise uncovered by genome sequencing projects, both in large media outlets and in scientific…

It won't make it readable, but University of Arizona researchers have cracked at least one of the puzzles surrounding the Voynich manuscript, a book filled with drawings and writings nobody can make…

Arches in human feet have been instrumental in our ability to walk upright and researchers at the University of Missouri and Arizona State University say they have found proof that arches existed in…