This just in! Sperm gets retracted! Er, I mean, a paper on sperm creation gets retracted…

Today’s Science Headline Standouts Progress in the hunt for dark matter. A tree in New Zealand still harboring genes it really hasn’t needed … for 500 years. A look at a new approach to do-it-yourself microevolution.

I grow increasingly worried about Scott Carson. Facebook is sucking him away from his blog and, as a result, I have no direct way to link to various gems of his, such as this one: Like a stopped clock that’s right twice a day, Nietzsche hit the nail on the head in Beyond Good and… Continue reading

It’s not just about the Science Astrophysicist Giovanni Bignami reflects on the importance of thinking big for the benefit of science’s future in space. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, it was à la mode in Europe to join US scientists in shouting that the planned station was robbing us of precious space science. I… Continue reading

“Do it, ass%$le!” Outstandng SNL spoof of mucho annoying kids cartoon Dora the Explorer.