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Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Googling Fights Dementia, Study Suggests
Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss, a new brain-scan study suggests. Scientists found ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
The Big Business of Swine Flu
Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, but companies have already ...Posted by Michael Bugeja
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Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Bees Wax: Scientific American Podcast
(Podcast) John Williams, the beekeeper at Down House in England, talks about Darwin's bees. And May Berenbaum, entomologist ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Scientists in a flap over dinosaur nesting
The science of the living and the science of the dead clashed Monday at a Museum of the Rockies symposium on ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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Climate Change Deniers Are Not Skeptics - They're Suckers
My fiercest opponents on global warming tend to be in their 60s and 70s. This offers a fascinating, if chilling, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Benefits of Vacation
(Blog Post) When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Where might Gordon Brown bump into scientists, poets, internet gurus, and even Cameron (Diaz, that is)? At TED, the festival of new ideas
It's a confusing place, the world of TED. Not just because that for an event which prides itself on its cleverness, ...Posted by Leo Romero
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Michael Specter’s new book ‘Denialism’ misses its targets
Like the great institutions of European Christianity, modern science has amassed tremendous power—and not always ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Bob McChesney interviews Chris Mooney, blogger for Discover Magazine and author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our ...
(Podcast) Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and the author ...Posted by Doug Greer
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For First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success in Trials
A new AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand has protected a significant minority against infection, the first time any ...Posted by Judy Plapinger -
The Big Business of Swine Flu
Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, but companies have already ...Posted by Michael Bugeja



