Travelling to work early Friday morning, I came across this article in the Metro. Oral sex virus 'causing throat cancer' as scientists urge male HPV vaccine | Metro.co.uk. The article is rather heavy…

Understanding Climate : #5 - Variations In Sunshine Insolation variation I am trying to explain in this series the most important aspects of the sciences most relevant to climate as a cross-…

63 Years Old Solo Balloonist Reaches North Pole Jean-Louis Etienne has made the first solo balloon voyage to the North Pole, traveling 3,130 kilometers - 1,945 miles - in five days from Norway to…

My academic adventures have exposed me to a fairly large amount of mathematics.  While I seem to end up wishing I had taken even more mathematics, computer science, and statistics coursework…

I have just returned from over a week working at DESY (das Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron) at Hamburg, and when I am not so tired I hope to write up some more synchrotron stuff for you all. …

If you live in London, then you could do worse than join a Westminster Skeptics night out getting paralytic about science. Westminster Skeptics promote an evidence-based approach and critical…

Decisive Advantage by Chris Potter in the Pittsburgh City Paper. If I had a kid who might want to go into research for a living, I'd want them to read this story. It gives some insight into what is…

In two years the Higgs boson will be close to discovery, and its mass already known, or the particle will be already in the trash bin. That is the single line which best summarizes the scenarios I…

"Airplanes do not "fly"! They are held aloft through the divine intervention of heavenly angels!""I'll notify the Texas Board of Education at once!" I wonder whether such dark levity is the last…

New Missing Link - Or Maybe Not The recent suggestion that Australopithecus Sediba is an intermediate species has aroused controversy. The following extracts are from naturenews. Claim over 'human…