Can complex traits lost during evolution recur later?   It was an academic argument but now it has some more data.  Writing in Evolution, a study analyzes Gastrotheca guentheri , a…

Every science writer has their own reasons for getting into science communication—their own goals and purpose that drives them. Some are focused on science literacy—their aim to take a complicated…

The comments thread for an article that I wrote a couple of weeks ago has suddenly been swamped by the replies of a young-earth creationist. Perhaps I should have expected it, with an article about…

It wasn't easy to like "Superman Returns".   Certainly, it was designed to reboot the franchise after "Superman II" but it ended up needing a reboot of its own.    There were a few…

Usage-Based Billing, where users pay for access by the Giga-Bit, hasn't been around since the 1990s - we think, anyway.  It's been a long time since AOL was able to use that business model to…

A week ago a meeting was held in Chamonix to discuss in detail the schedule for the near future of the Large Hadron Collider, and to take a decision on the schedule, in particular for 2012.…

NEW YORK, January 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, argues the case for polio eradication and expanded childhood immunization in his third…

"Lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math" Anonymous

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, January 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics , a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced today that the European Union (EU) has finalized…

Well here I am again with an Earth-shaking update (for those of you who don't know me well I am extremely humorous). Demeter Design is well on its way to non-profitdom. I am winging this (mostly…