If Hollywood is to be believed, scientists are all dermatologically-challenged recluses, who speak their incomprehensible language in nasally tones, with the odd snorting laugh thrown in for good measure. Jim Hare of the biological...

Bullets are so 19th-century, and missiles went out of style with skinny ties and leather pants. It’s the 21st century people, and some of us want to know “where is my laser gun?” Bullets, if...

Are we alone in the universe? This question has probably been pondered since humans first realized that each of the bright twinkling dots in the nighttime sky was a distant sun, and has driven...

On Friday, Oct. 30, prompted by one reporter’s outrage over a Nintendo Wii Fit estimating her age at 40, in the name of journalistic integrity and in no way out of a desire to...

Bad driving — damn genetics! Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that people with a genetic variation may be predisposed to being bad drivers. The gene variation in question reduces the amount...

To many of us, our first exposure to sex came at the paws of an animal, tugging on our parents’ coat sleeves, whilst exclaiming “Mommy, Mommy those two monkeys are killing each other.” For...

It was supposed to be easy, a few googles, maybe a peer reviewed paper or two, and I would be able to answer the “Ask a Scientist” question “what is a Higgs boson?” Unfortunately...