Science It Works Bitches

jtotheizzoe:

This decision reverses last year’s injunction of NIH’s hESC funding policies, ensuring (for the time being) that hESC funding and research will continue. The so-called Dickey-Wicker amendment, the basis for the original lawsuit and probably the silliest amendment name ever, was ambiguous and did not expressly prohibit ESC research.

So basically, this is a victory for US stem cell research. I’ll update if there’s more developments.

lovewhitegirls:

I’m not a religious buff but I am intelligent enough to know that for a single cell organism to multiply to billions of species would mean ME ALONE could create billions of species just from myself that could not happen due to a chance of 2 rocks colliding. If 1 cell had the…

incomprehensibleuniverse:

Texas science standards
Two years ago, the Texas State Board of Education voted 13-2 to put in place a plan that would require teachers to encourage students to scrutinize “all sides” of scientific theories, including the theory of evolution.

Critics of the plan argued that it would allow…

jtotheizzoe:

“A handful of physicians are collaborating to take Mehmet Oz, MD, to task on what they’re calling outlandish claims and bad medical advice. Their suggestion is to no longer pay attention to that man behind the curtain.”

Beware the snake oil salesman, claiming cures with such mystical means as psychics and faith healing.

incomprehensibleuniverse:

The reports began circulating a few weeks ago, and today’s publication in the journal Nature makes it official: Physicists have detected the heaviest bits of antimatter ever found on Earth. And that record is likely to stand for a long, long time.

Members of the STAR collaboration at…

incomprehensibleuniverse:

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is bound for the space station in 2011

By Irene Klotz

The crowning glory of the International Space Station has nothing to do with preparing humans to live on the moon or finding a cure for Salmonella. It’s a particle detector designed to hunt…

I have no idea whether these would be considered the top signs but I’d love to get an evolutionary biologist’s opinion on the subject.

Dear Tennessee…You’ve officially take the Dumbest State in the Union award. Congratulations you dumb fucks…Oh my mortal enemy, stupidity, strikes again.

sciencecenter:

This is probably the most common and plausible objection that I hear to evolution (plausible in that it isn’t immediately obvious why it’s wrong). The question, of course, is loaded; present-day life didn’t come from nothing, but most certainly from something - matter, and the special ways that…

AP – Fri Apr 15, 5:51 pm ET LOS ANGELES – NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects.