As I wrote in While Webb Bleeds, Space Science Hemorrhages, U.S. budget skepticism is going to persist as long as every big project is years behind schedule and far over budget.    The…

The arxiv is featuring a new paper by Darien Wood, member and spokesperson of the DZERO experiment and a distinguished physicist with lots of experience in hadron collider physics. The paper is…

Blogging really only became a communications whirlwind when President George W. Bush was in the White House so, for the most part, science blogger outrage focused on his actions as President, and…

BALTIMORE, November 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Early results from a group of clinical trials in Africa and South America support wider use of a low-cost treatment to prevent the emergence of active TB…

Since oil is expensive, scientists are working on making plastic from human waste, algae and milk. One company, Novomer, is getting topically relevant in the global warming arena and making it…

One is addicted to attention, delusions of grandeur and a belief that money exists in a magical pot that never ends - and the other is Lindsay Lohan. Allysia Finley argues that California is…

WORCESTER, England, November 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- npower has announced that it is making a hundred pairs of tickets to Football league matches available in support of the Tickets for Troops…

LONDON, November 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier's Vet CPD Professional Skills online courses have won a coveted Brandon Hall award for excellence as 'Best Custom Content'. The suite of five 'How…

DUBAI, UAE and ABUJA, Nigeria, November 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Al Fajer Information and Services, the leading Dubai based exhibition organizer, unveiled details on Autoparts Nigeria 2010 and Plast…

From Neuroanthropology blog Review article Tunnel vision Pinker, Steven. 2002. The blank slate: the modern denial of human nature. London: Penguin. 509 pp. The gap between sociocultural…