What is Language ? We are tool-using social  animals. The most powerful tool known is the one we use to build every other tool: language - spoken or written. But tools can be used with little or…

The politics of science is about more than just funding and science-based policy decisions: governments, and in particular the US Federal Government, are into science education in a big way, whether…

In thirty minutes (4 PM Chicago time) a live streaming of the Omega_b discovery by CDF will be broadcast at this link: http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/VMS_Site_2/000Return/video/r_live.xsl Please…

In the last few days I indulged in a rather technical description of the checks I made on DZERO's evaluation of the significance of their observation of Omega_b particles. In those occasions I did…

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Georg, over at Lattice Points noted a piece about open science in Physics World: The adoption and growth of scientific journals has created a body of shared knowledge for our civilization, a…

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Online survey asks participants about plans for transforming their Lotus Notes and Domino platform in exchange for periodic summaries and a complimentary…