Obesity rates have leveled off and even started to decline for many adolescents, but not certain racial and ethnic minorities, according to a new study.  The study says it is the first to find…

Coal isn't popular everywhere these days, particularly in Africa.  Driven by economic growth and demand, electricity within sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly approaching supply capacity and in many…

A post on the Science Codex caught my attention (You think of your dog as one of your children? You probably live in the city). Of course, my first reaction was that this guy clearly lived in the…

To Anthony Watts, Letter before action in accordance with the rules of common law jurisdictions in general and of the English Civil Courts1 in particular. In the general context of this letter, my…

The redefiner Ɽt can be mimicked by a trail of infinitesimal unitary transforms. Each subsequent trail element has eigenvectors that differ from those of its predecessor. These eigenvectors are also…

The difficult thing about popularizing movements is that, in the beginning, you want recognition but as time goes on the interests of the movement may be divergent from the people involved in it.…

Not long ago, many scientists had the belief that after the age of about three, the brain was pretty much fixed in function. You could imprint new memories and learn new skills, but that was about it…

W bosons have been thoroughly studied at the Tevatron collider. Discovered by the UA1 experiment at the CERN SppS proton-antiproton collider in 1984, these particles have since been produced also in…

Largest thermometer that does no thermometing, largest shopping cart and even the largest ... particle collider.   Though at least we hope that last one will do something meaningful. It's all…

About 18 months ago, in late January 2009, during the tempestuous cyclone Klaus in France, which killed 26 people and wreaked enormous damage to the nearby once ancient region of Aquitaine, a new…