Category: Science

The White House will be having a press conference at 12:30 PM EST on the dreaded "swine flu", as it has grown to pandemic proportions. 11 people in the …

On Monday President Barack Obama signed his executive order reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. He stood proudly with Americans from all over the …

Did Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal just write off five states if he runs for President in 2012? Jindal singled out "volcano monitoring" as an unnecessary frill that Democrats stuck …

Over on WizbangBlue there's an emotionally charged pro-statism diatribe against that demon weed, tobacco. Yeah, I'm that guy. This idiot right-winger is pro-tobacco - which, apparently, means pro-asthma.Several years …

I would have channeled Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness rather than Luke Skywalker, but this is still very cool. The man behind the Segway scooter has a new …

A 1951 movie comes to mind when reading this news. STARGAZERS have had a dramatic glimpse of what happens when planets smash into each other, the first time the …

We are all doomed.....maybe in 2036. Since Apophis was discovered in 2004, asteroid-watchers have known that it has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2036. At 270 metres …

Did they really, really need to conduct this survey? BALTIMORE, June 10 (UPI) -- Mothers of twins seldom get the recommended full night's sleep and often suffer from depression, …

Bears apparently can and do dance in the wild - or something closely approximating it. Researchers with the USGS have caught several on hidden cameras lately. ***WARNING*** Do NOT …

The recent consensus has been that the earliest humans in North America were the Clovis people, roughly 13,000 years ago. Newly discovered fecal fossils in Oregon indicate people were …