The Higgs boson, the pope, and the curious interaction between organized religion and big science.
The fringes of Antarctica are being invaded by alien plants and tiny animals, scientists have found. Researchers scoured the clothes and boots of tourists and scientists visiting the continent and found that most were carrying plant seeds. The research team says the plants are likely to spread as the climate warms, estimating that about 70,000…
By throwing away information in a particular way, we are then able to alter the quantum mechanical outcomes.
All of us are shaped by forces, even in the supposedly free thinking academy, which we perhaps only understand and evaluate years later.
Japanese scientists have used induced stem cells to create a liver-like tissue in a dish. Although they have yet to publish their results and much work remains to be done, the achievement could have big clinical implications. If the results bear out, they would also constitute a significant advance in the ability to coax stem…
An automated supernova hunt is shedding new light on the death sequence of massive stars — specifically, the kind that self-destruct in Type IIn supernova explosions. Digging through the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) data archive housed at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab),…
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a blog and a YouTube show about science. But it’s probably not about science the way you’re used to it. From the blogger and host, Joe Hanson, Ph.D: “I have a Ph.D in biology, and my mission in life is to tell the world about the awesomeness of ALL…