Canadian Astronaut Performs Wet Towel Experiment at International Space Station
For science, natch
Science
Stephen Hawking: Dark Matter Cosmology's Missing Link
The truth is out there, probably
How Free Markets and Human Ingenuity Can Save the Planet
A review of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas.
Crick's Nobel Prize Sells for $2.3 Million
Award given to discoverer of DNA goes to head of biomedical firm
Science, Sex, and Birth Control
We don't have a pro-science party and an anti-science party. We have two anti-science parties.
FDA Looking Into Robot Used for Surgeries
The machine, called da Vinci, has hit a patient and had other similarly dangerous malfunctions
Study Finds Pesticides Can Cause Brain Damage in Bees
According to the European Food Safety Authority
Scientists Developing Cloaking Technology
Just works on microwave light, for now
Higgs Boson Could Shed Light on How the Universe Might End
The infinite stack of turtles is going to topple, right?
Study: Mega Volcanoes Could be Responsible for Half of All Extinctions
Death from above joined by death from below
"Baby Boom" of Stars Occurred After Big Bang
Oldest stars not much younger than the universe
Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things?
Because to do otherwise would be immoral.
French Researchers Say Early HIV Drugs "Functionally Cured" About a Tenth of Patients
Most infected find out after the virus has spread throughout the body
Carnival Cruise Ship Stalls
Hasn't been the best year for the cruise line so far
The Supreme Court Considers Biotech Seed Patents
What are the limits to patents on self-replicating technologies?
Young Child Appears to be Cured of HIV
The two-and-a-half-year old girl has been off medication for about a year
British University Asking for Volunteers to Take Cocaine
Want to research how the drug spreads through the body
New Journal Trying to Change Peer Review Process
Embargo on research about to be published not really looked kindly upon
Large Hadron Collider Shutting Down For Two Years
Long Shutdown 1, for maintenance
2012 DA14 Will Avoid Impact With Earth
Will miss by 17,150 miles, closer than many satellites
Meteor Shower Injures Hundreds in Central Russia
Shockwave shattered glass and shook buildings
New Research Brings Dinosaur Extinction and Suspected Asteroid Impact to Within 33,000 Years of Each Other
About as close as modern technology will allow
Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?
Experts manufacture whatever facts an activist, politician, or bureaucrat needs.
