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Just as I was starting to calm down, he mentioned that the Andromeda galaxy is going to crash into the Milky Way in two billion years.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/30/2012 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Now Dr. Spitzer, who just turned 80, has acknowledged that his survey was deeply flawed.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/24/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

The planet is getting richer as well as more crowded, and the pressure to produce more energy will become acute long before the end of the century.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/8/2012 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Santa, the Easter Bunny, and Clouds...!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/1/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

It’s a Bird, It’s a Double Plane … No It’s Space Shuttle Enterprise Flying Over NYC

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

“These bison represent healing,” said Iris Greybull, 62, of Poplar.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

The company has said it expects to reach profitability in 2014.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2012 8:00 PM | Add Comment

She added, “I feel that we’re trying to educate mass audiences and get children involved, and we didn’t want people saying ‘Don’t watch this show because it has a slant on climate change.’ ”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Walking through the woods of Concord, it’s easy to notice and be alarmed by the more extreme changes in flowering times of species like the highbush blueberry.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

Scientists may hesitate to link some of the weather extremes of recent years to global warming — but the public, it seems, is already there.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/18/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

The male preference for the color red is, indeed, a robust and demonstrable effect: Across cultures, men find women more attractive when they are bedecked in red or appear against a red backdrop, sometimes without even being aware

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/17/2012 12:15 PM | Add Comment

“This is an example of social networking in science, and it gives us a power we have not had.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

“We had more notice on this system than you normally do. You normally are looking at a couple of hours’ notice. Well, this one had almost two days’ notice.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/16/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Fracking, Natural Gas, and Earthquakes...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/13/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

“It would be very sad for humankind if we were so spiritually decadent to forgo the pleasures of consciousness and of knowledge,” said Mr. Mosterín

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/8/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

911 TURBO

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/5/2012 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Scientists have been debating the relative influence of inherited risk and environmental factors in autism for decades, and few today doubt that there is a strong genetic component.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/4/2012 7:45 PM | Add Comment

Called the iBrain, this simple-looking contraption is part of an experiment that aims to allow Dr. Hawking — long paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease — to communicate by merely thinking.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/3/2012 10:00 AM | Add Comment

For years, unsuspecting Navajos inhaled radioactive dust and drank contaminated well water. Many of them became sick with cancer and other diseases.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/1/2012 2:00 PM | Add Comment

“A woman has the right to pretend she’s being raped by a pirate if that’s what she wants to pretend. Very few people act out their fantasies, except in Northern California.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/1/2012 9:30 AM | Add Comment

“Is it climate change? I really don’t know,” he said. “This was just one year out of my 46, but I have never seen anything like it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/29/2012 3:00 PM | Add Comment

The case, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, No. 11-725, is being closely watched because it involves the ethically charged but commercially important question of whether genes can be patented.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/27/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

It was not until two months ago, Dr. Reiner said, that Mr. Cheney’s decision to take a donor heart finally crystallized.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/26/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

The question facing at least eight local, state and federal agencies boils down to this: With California officials expecting climate change to raise sea levels here by 14 inches by 2050, should herculean efforts be made to preserve the beach

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/25/2012 6:00 PM | Add Comment

So much land is being bulldozed and so many trees are being burned that the sky sometimes turns “twilight gray” at daytime

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/25/2012 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Sleep deprivation ratchets up the stress system, leaving you more susceptible to even relatively mild sources of strain.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/25/2012 5:45 AM | Add Comment

Reproductive-rights advocates today urged that any expansion of nonprescription drugs include birth control.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/23/2012 11:59 PM | Add Comment

“They could pick out who was on it from the waiting room because of the super-long eyelashes,” Mirmirani said in a telephone interview.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/22/2012 4:00 AM | Add Comment

Federal taxpayers also heavily subsidize coastal development when the government pays to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in storm surges and picks up much of the bill for private losses not covered by insurance.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/14/2012 6:06 AM | Add Comment

Statins have been available since the 1980s but their risk of inducing diabetes did not surface for nearly 20 years.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/5/2012 6:19 AM | Add Comment

“If industrial carbon emissions continue at the current pace, we may lose organisms we care about -- coral reefs, oysters, salmon,” Hoenisch said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/2/2012 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Moon Berlin, a German fashion label of the company Franken & Bruns, recently opened an online shop that sells chiffon dresses with white LEDs beneath the sheer fabric.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2012 6:44 AM | Add Comment

This would be the oldest plant by far that has ever been grown from ancient tissue.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2012 7:22 PM | Add Comment

NYTIMES: Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/19/2012 4:40 PM | Add Comment

Still, many experts at the conference were dazzled anew.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2012 6:24 AM | Add Comment

Still, the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups are calling for new protections against what the A.C.L.U. has said could be “routine aerial surveillance of American life.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2012 6:22 AM | Add Comment

For now, he said, the group agreed that it was “best that these viruses should stay where they are — in well-run high-security labs.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2012 6:15 AM | Add Comment

She said, however, that some other doctors in the region had also started using the phentermine-topiramate combination “without being educated on how to use it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2012 6:41 AM | Add Comment

I.B.M., Mr. Mills said, is now the largest employer of Ph.D. mathematicians in the world, bringing their talents to things like oil exploration and medicine.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/16/2012 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Glenn said, “I am not at all happy with some of the directions the space program is going, in particular retiring the space shuttles before we have a new heavy-lift launching system in place.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2012 7:38 PM | Add Comment

Didn't the Math Diety get us into the 2008 Financial Crisis with Derivatives and Swaps? - J.M.H.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/12/2012 9:03 AM | Add Comment

"It is contagion from one neuron to another."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/2/2012 5:48 AM | Add Comment

"Putting children on drugs does nothing to change the conditions that derail their development in the first place."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:21 AM | Add Comment

Nanomaterials are engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter, perhaps one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair, or less.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/26/2012 5:25 AM | Add Comment

WELLFLEET, Mass.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/24/2012 6:59 AM | Add Comment

Recently, two research teams — one at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and the other at the University of Wisconsin, Madison — announced that they had produced a form of H5N1

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/20/2012 8:19 PM | Add Comment

“The information storage side of this is fantastic, but this truly changes our ideas of the behavior of materials at molecular levels.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/12/2012 11:48 PM | Add Comment

While as toddlers they interact similarly with the company’s Duplo blocks, by preschool girls prefer playthings that are pretty, exude “harmony” and allow them to tell a story.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/30/2011 6:44 AM | Add Comment

That sort of sounds like something we should regulate, doesn’t it?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/26/2011 9:48 AM | Add Comment

“Everyone’s depressed, knowing those limited trails will be crowded and not very much fun.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/23/2011 10:01 AM | Add Comment

Dr. Atlas, then the president-elect of the American Society for Microbiology, objected publicly to “anything that smacked of censorship.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/21/2011 6:50 AM | Add Comment

The board operated from 1933 to 1977 as an experiment in genetic engineering once considered a legitimate way to keep welfare rolls small, stop poverty and improve the gene pool.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/10/2011 6:37 AM | Add Comment

An Ex- Spouse in Space...?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/6/2011 7:14 AM | Add Comment

The result is that the ability to determine DNA sequences is starting to outrun the ability of researchers to store, transmit and especially to analyze the data.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/1/2011 7:11 AM | Add Comment

“I’m just so excited about those gluten-free pancakes,” she announced to the crowd.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/29/2011 7:25 AM | Add Comment

Cupcakes may be addictive, just like cocaine.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 11/6/2011 6:33 AM | Add Comment

In the lab, with tetracycline provided, the mosquitoes can be bred for generations and multiplied. Males are then released into the wild, where tetracycline is not available.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/31/2011 5:25 AM | Add Comment

Barden’s father, Jody, said he had no objection to the sport in the wake of his son’s death.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/20/2011 5:10 AM | Add Comment

“As always, the children who are most at risk are exactly the very many children in our society who have the fewest resources,” Alison Gopnik, a psychologist at the University of California, said in an e-mail.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/19/2011 5:54 AM | Add Comment

ARKHANGELSK, Russia

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/18/2011 5:53 AM | Add Comment

“This is a good study, and I think it does add some important evidence.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/4/2011 5:32 AM | Add Comment

Today, the re-growing forests of the Eastern United States are among the most important carbon sponges in the world.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 10/1/2011 7:08 AM | Add Comment

Transgender Men don't need Estrogen to Complete Metamorphosis.... Just Become a Father....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/13/2011 5:37 AM | Add Comment

So how has Mr. Romney, the other leading contender for the G.O.P. nomination, responded to Mr. Perry’s challenge? In trademark fashion: By running away.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/29/2011 5:47 AM | Add Comment

This is the true awfulness of immortality.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/28/2011 6:47 AM | Add Comment

JUST LIKE S.F.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/23/2011 8:18 PM | Add Comment

The findings “demonstrate for the first time the feasibility of designing novel molecules that are safe and effective in promoting longevity and preventing multiple age-related diseases in mammals.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/19/2011 6:03 AM | Add Comment

“But a lot of other Texans, especially those in major cities with air pollution problems, are not necessarily supportive of the governor’s war on the E.P.A.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/18/2011 7:46 AM | Add Comment

“I’m much more interested in bringing Stanford to the world,” he said. “I see the developing world having colossal educational needs.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/17/2011 4:43 PM | Add Comment

"Still, it’s unclear whether addiction predisposes someone to mental illness, or vice versa."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 8/6/2011 4:00 PM | Add Comment

"Straight women were physically aroused by everything, including the bonobos, but their self-reports often contradicted what the sensors measured."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/31/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

"It is only a matter of time..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/28/2011 5:25 AM | Add Comment

"As climate change produces earlier snowmelts, sending too much of the water into reservoirs in the spring and too little in summer, the need for storage grows."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/27/2011 6:41 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: Carl Jung and the Duality of Man...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/26/2011 6:12 AM | Add Comment

Wall Street Banks Corner the Market on Air Conditioning Units, and Manufacture Heat Wave!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/21/2011 6:35 PM | Add Comment

"In 11th grade Ms. Bose, a 17-year-old in Fort Worth, tackled ovarian cancer, and that research won her the grand prize and $50,000 in the Google Science Fair last week."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 7/19/2011 5:27 AM | Add Comment

“Turn the switch on, the animal has the memory; turn it off and they don’t: that’s exactly how it worked.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/17/2011 5:10 AM | Add Comment

"Government scientists listed formaldehyde as a carcinogen, and said it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/11/2011 5:25 AM | Add Comment

"The W.H.O. panel ruled only that cellphones be classified as Category 2B, meaning they are possibly carcinogenic to humans..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 6/1/2011 5:40 AM | Add Comment

“Now I tell my male students, if you’re interested in clinical care, you can write your own ticket. You’ll be hired immediately.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/22/2011 6:44 AM | Add Comment

The Sedentary Life...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 5/20/2011 8:42 PM | Add Comment

"Nationwide, about one-third of women in their 50s have had a hysterectomy."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/5/2011 4:53 PM

“The Japanese public has become accustomed to receiving no information.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/21/2011 8:34 PM | Add Comment

In a symbolic boost for Japan, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the quake and tsunami were an "enormous blow" but also presented a "buying opportunity" given recovery prospects.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/21/2011 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Radiation Dose Chart

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/21/2011 8:12 PM | Add Comment

"Asia’s biggest utility said the containment chamber of the No 2 reactor may be damaged after the blast and radiation leakage is possible."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/14/2011 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Before and After: Japan!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/13/2011 2:04 PM | Add Comment

"Recent studies suggest that talk therapy may be as good as or better than drugs in the treatment of depression, but fewer than half of depressed patients now get such therapy compared with the vast majority 20 years ago."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/6/2011 7:51 AM | Add Comment

"The documents, including a January 2008 letter to President George W. Bush from Stephen L. Johnson, then the E.P.A. administrator, show that Mr. Johnson had determined that carbon dioxide posed a danger to the country..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/9/2011 8:36 PM | Add Comment

"But Dr. Overland acknowledges that his idea is tentative and needs further research."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/25/2011 3:48 AM | Add Comment

“They are so realistic that every time we show them, people try to grab them.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/5/2010 8:44 AM | Add Comment

This story is not about Mono Lake or arsenic, she said, but about “cracking open the door and finding that what we think are fixed constants of life are not.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 12/2/2010 9:19 PM | Add Comment

Imagine a Mini-Reactor Someday Powering Your Automobile or Home, the Elimination of Big Oil !!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 3/20/2010 3:09 AM | Add Comment

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