It seems European countries are discovering the issue Science 2.0 has discussed about America for many years. Granting student visas and then denying them work ones after their degrees under the…

20 years ago in America, members of Congress, armed with studies showing that a college degree meant more lifetime earnings on average than a high school diploma, decided the way to boost income for…

There's a lot of recent talk about open access in academia - taxpayers fund the bulk of academia in modern times so there isn't much benefit to a billion-dollar corporation charging a subscription…

University of Rajasthan, which was the only university founded in the State of Rajputana in 1946 and is now known as Rajasthan, was meant for the entire Rajasthan population of around 20 million. Its…

So a young earth creationist museum put some dinosaurs in its advertising.  Ho-hum. While the atheist panic machine lumbers into action once again - after all, kids like dinosaurs, what if they…

I just wrote an article talking about how limiting choice is framed as 'leading the way' when it comes to a pet belief - and anti-science Californians who insist any genetically optimized food is…

On Monday I did something that up until a few weeks ago I would have thought nearly impossible.I met in person with Texas Governor Rick Perry. Why might this have seemed highly unlikely until…

Browsing, as I do from time to time, recent German news in thelocal.de, I came across Schoolboy cracks age-old maths problem Shouryya Ray, who moved to Germany from India with his family at the age…

I started a new job this spring. After a long search in a tough market, I landed my dream job as a senior professor and administrator at a top research university – a university that did not…

More high school students are taking math and science classes - a good thing, we all want more science literacy - but the U.S. Education Department, in its quest to stop people from wondering how it…