Reading, writing and . . . global warming?

A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require "climate change" to be among the science topics that all California public school students are taught. picked by ImNotBlue 6 months ago

John Horgan and George Johnson discuss Dawkins, evolution, beauty, physics and language on the latest Science Saturday over at bloggingheads.tv: picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

US researchers say they have developed an effective way to kill unwanted plants and animals that hitch a ride in the ballast waters of cargo vessels. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

This special edition of the satirical internet news site takes a look a half-century into the future. picked by VoodooPeacock 1 year ago

Many people are against genetic engineering and some argument that “First, the injected DNA could disrupt a normal gene and therefore cause the loss of its function or, second, it might be integrated in a region of DNA which would induce its expression in undesired locations ” picked by niceplime 12 months ago

What is science? picked by bigtonyboy 8 months ago

Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi. picked by willster09 7 months ago

A separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age. picked by 2longdogs 4 months ago

3-D printing has been out of reach for most of us. Now thanks to do-it-yourself types all that has started to change picked by eyanna7 2 months ago

Undoubtedly my favorite photoshop contest on Worth1000. Those guys have talent. Enjoy. picked by donteatpoop 1 year ago

Mini UAV mimics birds and bats to fly by flapping its wings. picked by snood 9 months ago

If Cancer, Heart Disease etc don't get yah then perhaps this one will! picked by topofall 7 months ago

In five to 10 years, supermarkets might have some new products in the meat counter: packs of vat-grown meat that are cheaper to produce than livestock and have less impact on the environment. picked by JDRucker 4 months ago

The idea behind a space elevator is simple. Deploy a cable stretching from the ground near Earth’s equator far enough into space, and centrifugal forces due to Earth’s spin will keep the cable taut.

*fixed picked by jLoSsDh 2 months ago

One hard-up Boston human guinea pig earned $3,000 watching images of sea turtles and hardcore pronography for a study that measured her bodily responses. "It's amazing what they'll do for 10 bucks," one researcher said of the volunteers. "I almost feel bad for them." picked by VooDooPeacock 1 year ago

Bats learned to fly before they knew how to echolocate - the primary method of "seeing" for modern bats. The bats of 52 million years ago flew differently than the bats of today, but they also looked vastly different too. picked by super 6 months ago

Women start out as happy young adults, but by midlife wind up the sadder sex, says a new study on satisfaction related to financial circumstances and family life. picked by carguy4life 3 weeks ago

You know creationists and how they "prove" that life could not exist at random ? Well, this guy explains in detail pretty much everything about the origins of life. picked by DoggySpew 2 years ago

fun things that people have submited...and some really good ideas picked by acemak 11 months ago