Not only do evil fast food companies make us fat and tempt our children with deceptive advertising, they also make us impatient, according to a new study in Psychological Science. In fact, mere…

Following on just 6 months after the last 'new hominid' ...... http://www.science20.com/chatter_box/blog/new_hominid_discovered_anoiapi... 1 ....another discovery, this time in Siberia, of a…

"Wikileaks.org was founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from the United States, China, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Its Web site became…

The Order of Merit - the so-called "most exclusive club in the world". But what is it and what makes it so special? Sir James Black invented beta-blocker drugs, won a Nobel Prize and is widely hailed…

Now that the latest battle in the invertebrate wars seems to have died down a bit (victors inconclusive, of course), I can post a list of cool things about cephalopods that have put them in the news…

Watts Up With Giving Credit? This is really old news, but sauce for the goose ... Science relies on data collection.  Technology moves on year by year.  As new technologies and…

Ignacio Ellacuria wrote,"with Mons. Romero God is past for El Salvador". Mons. Oscar Romero represents the history of another church, less known, not one of the hierarchy, but that of the People…

Like about four years ago, the name of Grigoriy Yakovlevich (Grisha) Perelman is again in the mass-media headlines all around the world. Grisha is a prominent mathematician, who was able to solve one…

It makes me very happy when I see new precise results on the mass of the top quark being produced by the CDF collaboration (to which I still proudly belong). CDF, one of the two hadron collider…

Think yourself to orgasm - sounds natural enough......but not for everyone. Some people, injured and unable to feel their genitals may be helped by new research "The relation between the mind and…