Everybody’s favorite rodent, the naked mole rat has a problem. They have what is likely the poorest quality sperm of any mammal with only 7% actually moving and very slowly […]
The blogosphere has been blowing up over a medical quack recently and it’s a topic that needs more attention. The medical field and medical treatments is a field that is […]
It was a slow week for news, but here’s what we’ve got: The European Space Agency has made contact with the Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe. Unfortunately the window to get […]
This is some pretty awesome science in action. The presence of salt changes the freezing point of water, so it would be no wonder that when it starts to freeze […]
A new round of tests have again observed neutrinos making the journey from CENR in Switzerland to the OPERA facility in Italy 60 nanoseconds earlier than they would have arrived […]
I just listened to DJ Grothy’s interview of Richard Dawkins on JREF‘s official podcast, For Good Reason. One thing they discussed was the hierarchy of skepticism, that is what topics […]
This is short and late, but in my defense I’ve been busy and I’m sick. Damn cold. The smallpox vaccine, which uses the virus Vaccinia, in a live form, has […]
I had my first round of allergy shots on Friday and the nurse explained to me how it works. Due to how many allergies I have there are two sets […]
Names for three new elements have been approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. They are darmstadtium (110), roetgenium (111), and copernicium (112). Elements 114 and 116 […]
Last week people more than half of the US were able to see the aurora borealis due to a recent coronal mass ejection. (Scientific American) China has launched the second […]