High-tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape:Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across...

Two years ago I used the combined Higgs search limits produced by the D0 experiment to evaluate how well the Tevatron was doing if compared with the predictions that had been put together by the 1999 SUSY-HIGGS working group, and later by the 2003 Higgs Sensitivity...

Researchers led by Moeller, of Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, found a sponge thriving in the midst of dead organisms. This anomalous life amidst death raised an obvious question, says Moeller: How is this thing surviving when everything else is dead?Chemical...

You can find it on Greg Laden's blog. Lots of great history of science blogging for the long weekend.Read the comments on this post......

Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office Hadley Centre, says scientists should be careful not to exaggerate the evidence for climate change:The reality is that extreme events arise when natural variations in the weather and climate combine...

Today, Bioclipse2.0 beta2 was released. The status was unfortunately not good enough so that a release candidate could be made available this week. Anyway, the beta2 version is packed with new features, like a completely new Welcome page, SMILES files support,...

Happy Valentine's Day! Another nod to the wondrous Kea, who has also shown great patience with the world. She points out a new paper by Spanish physicists Antonio Ranada and Alfredo Tiemblo, The Pioneer Anomaly as a Quantum Cosmological Effect. See the post...

w00t! Miriam Goldstein had a piece published in Slate! The real references to that piece arehere.Read the comments on this post......

Enhanced or unenhanced? You be the judge... (from the episode Space Seed)McCoy: The Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.Spock: Your attempt to improve the race by selective breeding.McCoy: Oh no not our attempt, Mr. Spock. A group of ambitious scientists.Soon to be...

One of my favorite meetings is the annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings. One of my favorite cities to visit is New Orleans, Louisiana. The two pleasures will not be coinciding at any time in the near future because of the ineptitude...