Calculations by Ryan O'Leary and Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early…

As you know, when different species directly compete for the same finite resource, only the fitter will survive.  A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) says…

We're big fans of oxytocin understanding.  It generally makes people nicer and  and relationships are difficult.   When you introduce stressful issues into relationships, such as home…

According to a 19th century nursery rhyme, the biological distinctions between males and females are thus: What are little boys made of?What are little boys made of? Frogs and snailsAnd puppy-…

If you haven't heard of swine flu - Influenza A H1N1 - by now... well, you have unless you can't read, which means you aren't on this website.   Reading too many popular media articles may have…

By 2020, NIH investigators over 68 will outnumber those under 38.  Source: NIH For various reasons, scientific and unscientific, much had been made of the hiatus bctwecn man atnd the: rest of…

How about a dating service where your male partners are chosen for their fitness from the Siberian permafrost?  Creating long extinct life through harvested genetic remains is closer than you…

Summer is coming. The time of camping and icy cold drinks. I've been working on developing a freeze dried beer that comes in a small pack and rehydrates fully carbonated with all its alcohol…

The march toward understanding the etiology of autism took a giant step foward today. In a landmark genome-wide association study, published online today in Nature, researchers found…

These are hard times for evil guys like me, who are always willing to speculate wildly on particle physics results -only to secretly chuckle at the ripples their extrapolations make, knowing for a…