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The Colorado River was originally called The Grand River but its name was changed on July 25, 1921. The Colorado provides water to much of the Western United States, electricity for Nevada (the...
When is cleaning up only 3,000 tons out of nearly 40,000 tons of a toxic spill enough to say the job is finished? Apparently Duke Energy thinks that's the case. Last week, it announced that...
We're more interconnected with each other and our universe than you might think.
School officials in Atlanta revealed this past weekend that they are reviewing how an anti-evolution cartoon from one of the leading proponents of creationism ended up in a high school biology lesson.
In May, Grady High...
Facebook has spent the better part of a year trying to prove that its users' privacy really is protected. Well, that task just became several times harder with news that a team of scientists has...
This week, astronomer Seth Shostak says that there are tens of billions of habitable planets -- not just in the universe as we know it, but in our galaxy!
Our Galaxy
Our galaxy is the Milky Way...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said in 2013 that there are three myths that block progress for the poor.
Poor people are meant to stay poor.
Foreign aid is a big waste.
Saving lives leads to overpopulation.
These...
Medicine has modernized mechanically at a very rapid rate over the years, but with notable exception in one particular field. Ultrasounds, MRIs, CT scans, pacemakers ? but when it comes to fertilization, though, clinics still...
I am a fan on Facebook of the science page, "I Fucking Love Science." That's where I get most of the stuff I write about here for the science portion from because they are pretty...
When you get your child's school supply list from their school, it has the usual items: pens, pencils, crayons, colored pencils, calculator, etc. However, what about a bulletproof blanket?
ProTecht, L.L.C, has developed a bodyguard blanket...
The Fox News channel recently had a guest with some interesting things to say with an attack on Neil deGrasse Tyson when on an episode of Greg Gutfeld's?Red Eye.?The guest, Gavin McInnes, was a co-founder...
For our weekly segment of, "This Week In Science!", I have just found that there have been patients to regain movement of their legs through epidural electrical stimulation.
The study was funded by the Christopher and...
1. Virtual grocery stores
We have taken online shopping a step forward with the opening of virtual grocery stores throughout the world. Strategically placed in area with high-frequency traffic (think airports and subways), they are aimed...
This week in science, there are many new and exciting things going on!
A lady had her cranium replaced with a 3D printed plastic one (3D plastic prosthetic parts are the future!), amber pieces that were...
We've all felt the frustration of listening to an ignorant RWNJ (right wing nut job) say:
"Oh look at this brutal winter we're having....yeah global warming hahahaha."
What brainy liberals know is that climate change and weather...
This week in science, astrophysicists confirmed that ?a galaxy cluster 9.9 billion light years away.
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The study began in 2006. They had had a hard time confirming how far away it is, however, and...
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It's an accomplishment when you can get a student to take an interest in chemistry. It's even more of an accomplishment when a student can find humor in chemistry. Apparently however, chemistry can...
French-Canadian photographer Ulric Collette wanted to show people just how much they resemble members of their own families and how our genes are more powerful than we think. In his Genetic Portraits series, he takes...
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I love seeing how things work and how things are made. I don't have a "mechanical imagination," I guess, and it's hard for me to visualize how things like chains are put together....
The USDA is warning that honeybees may disappear in the U.S. if the current trend continues. Bees are dying off so quickly, there's no guarantee they will be able to survive in the U.S., according...
