Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

From feedlot cows to Froot Loops, here's the worst of U.S. food world, according to Center for Science in Public Interest

“The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in the human genome, that technology is available to folks like us.” Northern Arizona University’s Paul Keim at the ScienceWriters2011 conference. The ability to compare genomes is a powerful tool for identifying the origins of a natural disease outbreak or bioterrorism

The honorees stood, backs ramrod straight, facing the audience at the White House.

When cataloging images of tuberculosis cells became too daunting for a research team at Harvard, they turned to crowdsourcing, and discovered that the masses have the ability to dramatically change the course of scientific research. Sarah Fortune, a tuberculosis (TB) researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, had thousands of images of multiplying TB cells piling up in her lab. Her team of graduate students were inundated: all the pictures had to be labeled; some probably held the key to combating a deadly bacteria that infects one-third of the global population, mostly in poor parts of Asia, Africa and South America

The ground shook violently in L'Aquila, Italy, early in the morning of April 6, 2009, more violently than it had during the tremors the area had been experiencing for months. After the dust settled and the recovery effort was over, 308 people were dead. Now the local prosecutor is charging the scientific committee responsible for predicting earthquakes with failing to give the people of L'Aquila adequate warning.

“How do you know the moon is not made of green cheese?” Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 17th. [More]

This video demonstrating the power of superconductivity has been making the rounds this week and is an example of how video is really the best way to capture and share with thousands of viewers the amazing power of science! You will notice that the video is a demonstration without the science explained live.

Each of us has a lens through which we see the world, but we have the power to view the world through other lenses.

For years artificial muscles have promised to deliver a more flexible, more durable alternative to electric motors and hydraulic systems.

This story is a joint project with ProPublica, PBS Frontline and McClatchy . The story will air on Frontline on Oct. 11

No, that's not the setup to a joke. Google, YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures, NASA, ESA, and JAXA are pulling science and tech education into the spotlight yet again, hosting a global science fair with prizes that are, quite literally, out of this world.

The popular idea that chemistry is now conceptually understood and that all we have to do is use it is false. Sure, most of the products we use in our daily lives were made possible by modern chemistry. But producing useful compounds is far from all chemists do.

Lady Ada Lovelace was a contemporary and colleague of Charles Babbage , he innovator of the programmable

As a little girl, some of my fondest memories were watching science and nature shows on American public television with my family: NOVA, National Geographic, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. I recall as a preteen being transfixed as I watched an episode of NOVA that demonstrated a magnified image of cardiac muscle cells sparsely arranged

From scenic sunsets to decadent desserts, life's pleasures often feel like luxuries. But in fact, they may boil down to basic survival. Susan Spencer explores the science behind why people like what they like and finds out it's not just about our sensory experiences