Science beyond fiction. Think about that phrase. Think about the changes of the last hundred years. The last ten years. The last two...

It feels like science fiction. But, here is the ScienceDaily summary of an experiment – and success – in robots learning altruism and...

My 54th birthday brought an unexpected present. On April 29, 2011, the DC Circuit vacated the nation-wide injunction limiting stem cell...

Engineers are creating better software for managing massive amounts of information in visual form. ScienceDaily has the story on new...

News is out here and here on a paraplegic young man who is part of Geron’s first clinical trial on injecting stem cells to try to aid...

Lives can hang in the balance when reports are written to summarize the results of medical studies. Sadly, some scientists do commit...

Formaldehyde. IARC and now EPA have deemed it a "known carcinogen." Go here for a collection of EPA’s work on formaldehyde. The...

President Obama and others argue that better science will save time, money, and lives. Some doubt the argument, but it’s true. Here’s a...

After eight years of President Bush blocking and denying science, current threats to science arise from tea partiers who offer mindless...

Over the last couple of days, Chicago received 15-20 inches of snow from a massive storm spread across most of North America. For some...

Science continues to push ahead, and a recent example illustrates some of what lies ahead. Many (but not all) tort law rules include...

Hope Philosophers say it’s essential. Respected universities now teach positive psychology, and papers suggest it works. Where do humans...

The Economist recently teed off on the foolishness of trying to suppress embryonic stem cell research. Such a shame that church and...

Nature compiled this series of great images from science in 2010. My favorite, of course, is a photo of the Hartley 2 comet which...

Epigenetics. What is it? It’s a part of science which is going to matter to tort lawyers. In short, it’s what we presently label as the...

Nature is the source for this new article reporting success in turning stem cells into small, three dimensional structures much like the...

The holidays are here. For too many children, the days and nights will be spent in hospital beds while their bodies, their families and...

The power of widely shared information has been very much in the news this week thanks to the Manning/WikiLeak’ disclosures of US...

Much of our future lies in science. Accordingly, as a fan of the University of Illinois (see below) and science,  it was great to see the...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, a new scientific first arrives in the form of a breakthrough in cancer research tools. The gist ?...