No one says, "I am in favor of pollution" but how would anyone know who really cares?   Body language, claims a new book. Professor Geoff Beattie, from The University of Manchester, says…

How geeky do you have to be to attend a mathematical meeting every 4 years - and think India in August is a cool place to do it?   Pretty geeky.   The ultimate geeks. If that is you, we…

Large amounts of money are being siphoned from the multi-billion dollar cigarette smuggling trade and going right into the pockets of terrorist networks and international organized crime.  A…

NASA Goes To The Arctic NASA is sending a team of scientists to study the Arctic at close quarters.  I guess it's pretty hard to sample phytoplankton with a satellite. NASA Icebreaker Voyage To…

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of the Original Equipment Manufacturer Division at Microsoft Corp., announced the official opening of the…

Time for a little space business by a citizen scientist-- an ordinary scienc-y person who just happens to be building a personal satellite in his basement.  I'm at the Space Weather Enterprise…

SAN DIEGO, June 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Vital Therapies, Inc., (VTI) is pleased to announce that the first two subjects have been enrolled at King's College Hospital in London in the expansion of its…

A CNN headline reads "Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests". Interesting, but wait... The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples…

The polar regions are far, far away for most people. Do not count me in among 'most people' though. As a Norwegian I practically live in the Arctic. There are only 8 nations that are (partly)…

MADRID, June 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmaMar SA (Grupo Zeltia, ZEL.MC) today announced that a registration trial in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma patients has been initiated with Aplidin(R…