The Astronomy Education Review, a web-based journal/magazine about astronomy education and outreach, has announced the on-line publication of its 14th issue at http://aer.noao.edu. Access to this journal is free. In light of recent discussions here, this article...

The man responsible for one of the most significant public health threats of our time has been exposed as a fraud.Andrew Wakefield, the discredited British scientist whose study "linked" vaccines and autism, has been accused of falsifying data.According to...

One frequent motif recurs in creationist email: they may believe in god, but they don't believe in paragraphs. This one also hits another frequent theme: the racist creationist. Oh, and an obsession with incest.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments...

A recent paper in PLoS argues that variation in genes that regulate dopamine (5-HTTLPR) and serotonin neurotransmission (DRD4) influences financial risk taking: at the 5-HTTLPR gene, one homozygous form (two identical copies or alleles) took on 28 percent less...

According to theaberrant salience account of schizophrenia, the positive symptoms of the condition - the hallucinations and delusions - come about because patients see meaning where there is none. The neurotransmitter dopamine, associated with learning and...

A special court has reached a decision: vaccines don't cause autism. On one side were families with sad and tragic anecdotes of children with serious developmental disabilities, and on the other…The government argued during the 2007 bench trials that...

No doubt everyone else is also posting this, but, thanks to Sariel, here is the list of accepted papers to the 25th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, to be held next June in Denmark.I was quite pleased to see one of my papers, the one with Mumford, Speckmann,...

SEA (again) has the details of the result of the House and Senate conference bill for economic stimulus. Here are the parts related to science:Provides $3 billion for the National Science Foundation, for basic research in fundamental science and engineering...

Two hundred years ago today, Robert Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England. Over his 73 years of life, he was an ardent observer of nature and a prolific writer who published tracts on Pollination of Orchids, Formation of Volcanic and Coral Islands,...

Follow up reposted from ScienceDebate: Several people have emailed asking about the cuts to the proposed increases to DOE/Office of Science, and what about NIH, USGS and other agencies we didn't mention.  Some clarifications are in order. 1. These are...