http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/scienceandtech/columns/for... There are two reasons NASA does not get more support. 1) The science community circles the wagons around everything. Have…

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Remember that terrific egg in a frying pan public service announcement warning us all about the dangers of drugs?  It was well done, stoners in the 1980s said things like, "I'm so fried" (they…

Do you believe your car grill says something meaningful about you? That a messy office means you are more likely to be racist? That some people have precognitive abilities? Those are all peer-…

Decades ago there was a cultural debate about who could best handle recycling, the private sector or government. Though environmental groups today are commonly associated with more government…

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) reconstructed the 3D structure of one of the proteins of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria and the…

http://www.cirm.ca.gov/StemCellBasics_Questionshttp://sdrmi.org/wordpress/?p=278http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13523 The California Institute for Regenerative…

Are conservatives more subservient to authority while liberals are more independent and free thinking? If you read social science claims, the humanities, and certainly the fringes of partisan science…

2 percent of America has celiac disease but over 20 percent of Americans say they are concerned about buying gluten-free foods - and marketing departments are happy to charge 230 percent more to make…

Open-Sourcing Chicken: Breaking Free from Corporate Genetics “These are corporate genetics from huge companies,” says Nigel Walker, proprietor of Eatwell Farm outside Dixon, Calif. “I’m embarrassed…