Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before. The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited scope [...]

update below The news is spreading everywhere: Mexico flu ‘a potential pandemic’. In the next few days we’ll probably have a replay of the bad [...]

Actually, what I’m about to discuss is the search for ET life, but you have to start somewhere and it’s getting more clear by the [...]

Some of the codswallop on what to do about global warming — okay, ALL of the codswallop — is driving me nuts. Nuts, I tell [...]

The BBC reminds me that it’s time to give a tip of the hat to one of history’s greats. Augusta Ada Byron was born in [...]

This is beautiful beyond words. Admire it, or also get extra points if you know what it is. Answer here. There’s also a video, which [...]

The global warming news is grim. Just two recent headlines: Acid oceans need urgent action and Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions. If [...]

Three stories, the first more interesting, the next two much better than all the other depressing stuff smothering the news. (None of these are up-to-the-minute. [...]

A group of Princeton chemists, publishing in Physical Review Letters (which, as you might guess from the name, is not a biological research journal), feel [...]

NASA – Scientists Detect Cosmic ‘Dark Flow’ Across Billions of Light Years Using data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an [...]

I’m sorry. I just can’t take it any more. I’m going to stop the world and get off. Yes, that’ll make the oceans slosh and [...]

Your Blogscientist has been falling down on the job. A few days ago I saw plenty of headlines about new nanoscale batteries. Everything’s nano-whatnot these [...]

Via Slashdot I found this Science News article which links to a mathematics site that’ll blow your mind up like bubble gum. It’s visualizations by [...]

My issue of the Royal Horticultural Society Garden magazine arrived today, and the first thing I saw was: Competitive gooseberry growing in northwest England has [...]

This is another story in the category of “We’re from the government. We’re here to help.” The reporting makes me want to bang my head [...]

The annoying thing about all the clean energy technologies is that we can’t buy them and use them. Breakthroughs keep being reported, and then . [...]