The world is producing more food using fewer pesticides than ever, thanks to modern science. The gap between modern pesticide usage and organic food pesticides needed per calorie of food got so large, up to 600% more organic pesticides used, that California stopped itemizing organic pesticides separately to improve>
Last week I described how a boulder-sized meteorite exploded in the skies over Murchison, Australia, forty years ago. The remarkable mix of organic compounds discovered in samples of the meteorite, which included amino acids, confirmed that some of the compounds required for the origin of life could have an>
The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that food. And stop buying>
Excavations in Colombia co-organized by Carlos Jaramillo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Jonathan Bloch, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, have unearthed fossil remains of a new snake species they named>
A University of Alberta study recommends that workers on pig farms be monitored as part of influenza pandemic preparedness, after a child on a communal farm in Canada was diagnosed with swine flu in 2006.Though the seven-month-old boy made a full recovery, health researchers were concerned because of evidence that>
Always thought women were the stronger sex? Okay, I admit it, me too. But I am inclined to be a little skeptical when someone pimping their book cites ancillary evidence rather than studies so even if the logic is good I tend to maintain a healthy disbelief. Ryuichi Kaneko and Dr. Kunio Kitamura, two of the co-authors>
You know my feelings on this. We need to embrace open post publication peer review. This way people can see the reviews and the reviews themselves should count as publications which can themselves...
"... a place where to store impressions, emotions, half-baked ideas ...: I say Professor Milgrom of the Weizmann Institute is the world's greatest living scientist — on the basis of...
"Scaling factors" for quark masses etc in that paper are due to the running of the coupling, i.e. top quark is formed at a higher energy so you have to us a different value of the...
I've also just started using AI to help do calculations, predicting particle masses from the energy absorbed by virtual particles undergoing vacuum polarization shielding. The most surprising...