(I'm quite tired now, but just wanted to note this down.  This ain't science; it's just a diary.) As it says in my profile, I'm a volunteer part-time fossil preparator for the Dallas Museum of…

ATLANTA, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - Secure Erase Firmware-Based Command Combined With Software Overwriting and Reporting Capabilities Safely Sanitize ATA and SCSI Drives Blancco, the global leader…

A team of astronomers from University College London (UCL) have discovered that an exotic world passes directly in front of the Sun-like star it orbits, revealing for the first time that it is about…

Exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, Gliese 581 e, in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our…

Want to hunt down enemy bacteria?   Look at the sugars on the germs' surface where they start building a 'structure' that helps the microbes resist efforts to kill them. Scientists have…

Dartmouth researchers have determined that the presence of the rare element osmium is on the rise globally. They trace this increase to the consumption of refined platinum, the primary ingredient in…

Thinking your memory will get worse as you get older may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that senior citizens who think older people…

Star Trek We don't talk down to people, no worries about appealling to 8th grade kids or whatever the reading level is supposed to be.

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- World First, one of the UK's leading foreign exchange brokers, is delighted to announce it has won the Queen's Award for International Trade. World First won the…

I stumbled on this amazing set of videos: physics legend Hans Bethe giving lectures on theoretical physics to his retirement community neighbors. It's not as crazy as it sounds - a running joke…