Light in the Pantheon And Ancient Astronomy

Light in the Pantheon And Ancient Astronomy

A while back there was a news story that the Pantheon may have been constructed to create a special effect in the sunlight at the equinoxes. I'm slow in reacting because I've read the book where the…
Freakish Find Excites Scientists

Freakish Find Excites Scientists

Scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University have pieced together a bizarre marine predator who trolled the seas some 505-million years ago. Hurdia, an extinct species of anomalocaridid, had a giant…
Creationist Code Words Voted Down in Texas

Creationist Code Words Voted Down in Texas

Creationists have put us into a bizarre, alternate universe, at least when it comes to curriculum design. Their latest attempt to undermine science education involves inserting the code words '…
The Egg: Fountain Of Youth For Sperm

The Egg: Fountain Of Youth For Sperm

Botox and face lifts only give the appearance that you've turned back the clock, and although expensive procedural looks are deceiving, your telomeres don't lie.  As your cells divide, telomeres…
A splice of life

A splice of life

Waltham, MA—In a new study this week in Nature, researchers at Brandeis University and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, U.K.) for the first time shed light on a crucial step in the…
Science Citation Classic: Beadle and Tatum

Science Citation Classic: Beadle and Tatum

Behind every major scientific effort is a story. Beadle and Tatum's story is one of persistence. They began with a hypothesis: each gene causes the production of a single enzyme, and that enzyme…