Progressing from crude stone tools to elegant hand axes was a technological leap, but that required the slow, complex process of evolution, says a new study that seeks to explain why it took …

The eye is not just a lens that takes pictures and converts them into electrical signals, it is the first part of an elaborate system that leads to "seeing".   As with all vertebrates, nerve…

Two anchors on WGN were rewarded for their patience in trying to show a bridge implosion live by...missing it.   After 5 minutes of trying to kill time, they segued to the studio to talk about…

A really interesting piece of news comes from the CERN laboratory today. The CMS experiment has detected a handful of Z boson decays in events featuring the collision between heavy ions, accelerated…

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is to the Obama administration what Dick Cheney was to G.W. Bush or Robert Rubin was to Clinton - it's better she not be allowed to speak. Yet speak she…

A dedicated vegan has to make a difficult choice.   She realizes, as most culturally neutral people knew, that nutrition is a shockingly inexact science and that the human body may react to a…

Forget those politically correct world leaders zipping around Lisbon in no-emission electric vehicles, an American president needs to cowboy it up, no matter which party he is.  Our honor…

Every wonder what to get an astronomy fan for a present?  In this 365DOA Podcast, Emma the waitress and Sandy the diner roleplay the Meteorite Cafe.  Judging by that name, you can guess…

In 2006, 2% of the world's astronomers, led by a guy with a television show, decided Pluto should not be a planet.    Recently discovered Eris was bigger, they said, so rather than make…

With the big holidays just around the corner, thousands of folks are about to get their first taste of the TSA's new virtual strip search machines - X-ray body scanners. Privacy issues may be the…