The previous year has forced us to confront difficult science questions: Was processing patents Einstein’s real strength? Are there any other planets out there like Earth? Why is the universe…

“Malicious,” “diatribe,” and “preposterous” are words recently thrown at me. (How remarkable that I lived nearly 60 years before drawing this kind of vitriol. Maybe I haven’t been assertive enough!)…

http://news.yahoo.com/alabama-professor-cites-mental-defect-university-… "Neuroscience essentially turns into a bioethics class. She's a liberal from "Hahvahd" and let's you know exactly how she…

Los Alamos National Laboratory's top 10 science stories of 2011 include alternative energy research, world record magnetic fields, disease tracking, the study of Mars, climate change, fuel cells,…

What is a paltry $195 billion in real cost versus $1 trillion in potential savings? Fans of 'jobs created or saved' fuzzy economics will love a report by the Joint Center For Political and Economic…

Think Christmas has gotten way too secular?  Turkey may be the place you want to move because they make sure kids stick with religion, though the 2.2% who are not Muslim will be tough to find so…

Let me begin by saying that I bleed blue. Not Yankee blue or horseshoe crab copper — IBM Blue. I was raised on a corporate paycheck and through all the years my mother worked for the computing giant…

http://kipcurriercopyright.blogspot.com/2009/07/federal-research-public-... Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly via Library Journal; Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Reintroduced in…

Imagine a world where Discover, Nature Networks, Science 2.0, Scienceblogs, Discovery and all the others worked together.   Yes, yes, I know we all do on occasion, but those times are based on…

`http://www.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=en&q=Brooke%20Magnanti&oe… http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/16/sex.blogger.identity/index.h…