Science
Harvard Gets $100 Million to Study Why Football Players Die Earlier Than Other Men
Being hit repeatedly in the head over a career might have something to do with it
Are Republican and Democratic Brains Different?
A new study concludes that everyone uses reason to persuade, not to find truth.
Government Retiring Research Chimps
Use of chimps for research falling out of fashion
NASA Thinking of Pulling Asteroid into Moon's Orbit
Would cost $2.6 billion and take at least six years for a spacecraft to capture and deliver an asteroid
First Virgin Galactic Flight Expected This Year
Seats for the edge-of-space flight are going for over $200,000 each
Writing About Robots: Good and Bad
Automation is good, unless the thing you're automating shouldn't be done in the first place.
U.S. Military Should be Ready for "Mutant" Warfare, Say Researchers
Could cause headaches down the road
Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
Old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.
Breakthrough in Work on What Makes People Gay
Research suggests trait comes from opposite-sex parents
The End of Physics?
Large Hadron Collider so far confirming the Standard Model exactly
Blue Science and Red Science
Examining the Democratic and Republican platforms on stem cells, space, and more
Fossils Found in Spain Linked to Panda
Remains are of the closest known relative of the panda so far, researchers say
Science Wins in California - Proposition 37 Fails
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this morning that Proposition 37 that - on specious "right-to-know" grounds - would have required labeling foods containing ingredients from biotech enhanced crops has failed.
