Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University have received U.S. Patent Number 7,179,448 for developing chimeric, or "…

"Scientists must improve communication tactics, Science article proclaims" No, I didn't write that headline. The PR firm for an article written by Seed magazine writer Chris Mooney and American…

After the events that conspired during the day, the continuum of CINF presentations to which my attention was dedicated, the fitful moments of disgust over $8 sandwhiches in between presentations,…

Monday morning roles on by at the parent's house, sound asleep til seven AM, still waking up in the darkness of daylight savings time. I gather my personal belongings: 1) Laptop - Check! 2) CD ROM…

The NPR interview on Open Science I discussed two weeks ago has aired and is now available. I think it was very well balanced. The positive aspects of not losing failed experiments was weighed…

Prostitutes, perversions and public scandals – the stuff of the 21st century tabloids was familiar to readers three centuries earlier, according to new research from the University of Leeds. The…

If this were true, it would make it more difficult to promote a quality website of terrific scientists, right? Maybe - maybe not. Perhaps it is instead the case that information democracy is…

To address the high rate of multiple births resulting from in-vitro-fertilization (IVF), researchers at Yale School of Medicine and McGill University have developed a procedure that estimates the…

Movies and Books about distopia that assume the future becomes this really emotionally  monotonous place ruled by greed and disgust, power and violence, and opression predict an unrealistic…

I find it amazing how much I live for numbers.   Being a physicist maybe I shouldn't be so suprised that numbers seem such a fundamental part of my idenity.   I spend all day…