Betelgeuse, the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), is a red supergiant, one of the biggest stars known, and almost 1,000 times larger than our Sun. To put that in…

The world's environment ministers, government officials, diplomats and campaigners are preparing for the biggest poker game of their lives - the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. It's…

CO2 reduction targets can be met with affordability. An EPRI report released this week concludes affordability requires a "full portfolio" of electricity sector technologies. Diverse…

Almost everyone seems to be opposed or at least guarded about the government becoming engaged in more services.  There seems to be a general assumption that it will be badly run, or simply bad.…

Big Pharma gets a bad rap, and sometimes deservedly so. After covering the industry for a number of years and working with them (not for them), I know the good, the bad, and the ugly of industry well…

I remember in grade school, as the box of crayons expanded into the hundreds, a cool new color of pink was invented, called Tickle Me Pink – well, probably just the name was invented.  …

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1. Ancient beer is apparently all the rage!   Wired and Switched (Switched wrote about it shortly after Wired but the news…

What's that, you say? Science is coming? I thought it was already here - then what are we talking about on Scientific Blogging? Fear not, befuddled blog readers. For when I speak of science coming to…

When I say 'stop eating chocolate or you may die' it is in theory, as there have been no recorded cases that I could find, so generally you need not worry. Thus, if you are sure you’re human you…

    Proton Therapy (PT) is a high-quality radiation therapy and initially used to treat  human patients in Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. For about 50 years of its use in treating…