The Colorado River in Grand Canyon remains flooded with controversy, more than a decade after federal policies were established to regulate flows out of Glen Canyon Dam. I was tipped off to the latest round of legal battles by a blog post in Arizona Geology, “Science ignored in Grand Canyon flows.” In the short item, author and state [...]
Well, I came back to delete this post 19 hours after writing it, realizing I had fallen into exactly the sort of oppositional mire between Creation and evolution that I think should not exist (see Day 5). Thanks for stopping by, though. I hope you check out some of the other science posts while you’re [...]
Doctors are sounding the alarm about a shortage of radioactive materials used to guide surgery and examine medical conditions like heart disease and cancer.
The shortage is fallout from worldwide efforts to restrict the production of nuclear bombs. As more reactors are abandoned around the globe in anti-proliferation efforts, supplies for medical radionuclides are also drying up. But one Canadian [...]
The same chemical that helps turn people and lab mice into crack addicts may also cause locusts to swarm.
A team of researchers from the UK and Australia has discovered that serotonin seems to trigger the swarms of desert locusts, devastating crop pests that span a fifth of the globe.
Serotonin has been found in every multi-cellular [...]
I love to write. And I love science. But so far, my attempt to combine these things in a style fitting for the modern age — by maintaining a blog — has been spotty. So I hereby challenge myself: 100 posts about science in 100 days, promoted as much as possible through other modern channels [...]
