This year's Nobel Prizes will be announced beginning next Monday. There is no way to know for certain who is in the running, but that d...

Recipients of the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship - sometimes referred to as the MacArthur "genius grant" - are an interesting mix of w...

'Our good Queen liked science very much. She circulated an order that all the women in her country should be educated. Accordingly a n...

This past March Rutgers University hosted the Black Women Academics in the Ivory Tower Conference . Dr. Simone Peterson Hruda , Associate Pr...

I was reading an interview with Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry , son of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barret, and his description of cool w...

Abel Pharmboy has posted the August Scientiae Carnival at Terra Sigillata . This month's theme: Summer days, driftin' away. . . Co...

Last month was the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's historic moon landing . Watching the footage of of the landing makes it look like the...