Sandwalk

  Sometime around midday you could write the exact time and date as 12:34:56 07/08/09 and if you were up early you could have witnessed 04:0...

(reposted from August 6, 2007) At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately 78,000 civil...

  This is a common question in the debates about science and religion. My answer is "no." A miracle, by definition, must be miracu...

  New Scientist is at it again. This time they've come up with Ten things we don't understand about humans . Blushing Laughter Pubi...

  The title of the press release on Biology News Net caught my eye: UNC researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome . I clicked th...

  Richard Dawkins interviews Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America . You really have to watch this if you want to understand what scie...

  This is a complex between parts of the T-cell receptor (green and blue) and the major histocompatibility complex class II molecule (MHC cl...

  Mark Buchanan believes that physics has entered a new era where it has gone beyond the fundamental forces into the realm of "collect...

  I wish that Obama had picked someone else as his nominee for Director of NIH. I'm not opposed to Collins simply because he is religiou...

  Fred Zlotnick took this picture of a banana slug in his back yard. Believe it or not, the banana slug is the official mascot of the Univer...

  The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has just completed a study of the scientific literature commissioned by the Food Standa...

  Most of us don't know very much about slugs and land snails but Christopher Taylor at Catalogue of Organisms is doing his best to edu...

  This is a very famous molecular complex. You need to identify this complex by naming all the major components. You will not win if you ski...

  The editors at New Scientist have become completely incapable of distinguishing between science and things that pretend to be science. Th...

  Today is Simcoe Day in Toronto, a holiday named after John Graves Simcoe , the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791-1796). Ac...