Today, AT&T made a major announcement: that it will invest more than a half-billion dollars over the next decade to purchase more than 15,000 alternative-fueled vehicles — 8,000 vans powered by compressed natural gas, and another 7,100 hybrid passenger cars. The telecommunications giant estima...

In 2004 when I finished my biology degree, I originally intended to do further training to become a high school biology teacher. [Above: Edith Cowan University, Joondalup: Wikipedia] However, by then our superannuation was doing so well, I did not need to work, so I decided to retire instead. But no...

Professor Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain is the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hyderabad in India, and one of the most prolific authors in PLoS ONE. Last week, I interviewed Dr. Hasnain over e-mail about his work and his experience with PLoS ONE: 1. What is your area of research? How did you get into ...

Don't know what to make of the news that membership in organized religions is down in all fifty states. That's not quite true.  I've been trying not to let myself make anything of it.  For one thing, I'd just be talking out of my hat.  I don't know enough.  None of the articles I...

Les Lang at the UNC Medical Center News Office now writes a blog - Hard Science. One recent post immediately caught my eye - Clocking Cancer: You might say that Dr. Aziz Sancar is trying to clock cancer. In a nifty double play involving a pair of recent publications in the Proceedings of the Nationa...

Biotech, cancer, Inflammation Luke Timmerman wrote: Some members of the band that pumped out a one-hit wonder at Icos are getting back together to see if they can produce at least one more hit at Seattle-based Calistoga Pharmaceuticals. Calistoga has been building up its management team over the pas...

Apparently this essay came out in the Journal of Cell Science last year, and I guess Sci just didn't hear about it. I finally DID hear about it, however, when I discovered The Faculty of 100 Biology. It's freakin' BRILLIANT. It basically gathers together over 2000 well-respected scientists from arou...

Several years ago, a friend of mine gave me a book for my birthday called Thought Contagion. I had not heard of the book or its subject matter, the science of memetics, but I was fascinated by what I read. Author Aaron Lynch explained, concisely and convincingly, how some of the most significant bel...

Of Obama's decision to reverse Bush's ban on federal funding for stem cell research, Yuval Levin has this to say: ...legitimate dispute underlies the stem cell debate. But that is not the ground on which the president made his case yesterday. He argued that to deny free rein to stem cell science is ...

Alvaro Fernandez (of Sharp Brains) speaks on cognitive science and growing your brain.  He and other researchers struggle hard against misconceptions of our brains. Elkhonon Golberg, The Wisdom Paradox -- 3 image brain scan at different stages of learning an activity Our frontal lobes help us ...