As I briefly laid out in The Science Of Baseball: Coefficients And Happy Haitians, people like home runs though baseball purists don't necessarily think much of them - unless their team gets…

Intelligence Made Simple: Part 2Please see also Part 1Are there other intelligences in the cosmos?  How would we know?By what universal standard can we know intelligence when we see it? A…

A few photos from around the world of cities that participated in Earth Hour 2009.Nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries took part in an effort to call attention to climate change. The event,…

ORLANDO, Florida, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- - In SPIRIT II Trial, XIENCE V Drug Eluting Stent Demonstrates Clinically Meaningful Reductions Compared to TAXUS in Key Safety Endpoints, Including an 88…

Video games that involve high levels of action,like first-person-shooter games, can increase real-world vision, according to research in Nature Neuroscience, including discerning slight…

Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. A new study of 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find…

Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when…

The benefits to animals of omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils have been well documented – helping the heart and circulatory system.   Can they also help in improving meat quality and reducing…

An open Letter to the World's Leaders Honorable Leaders, As our climate continues to change due to our extravagant use of fossil fuels, new sources of those fuels are being discovered in the Arctic…

Recently, walking through the grounds of HASYLAB at the German Synchrotron DESY (we are NOT a Daisy!) I was reminded of my favourite book on radio, namely The Science of Radio, by Paul J. Nahin (ISBN…