Erasmus University Rotterdam has announced that Dirk Smeesters, Professor of Consumer and Society at Rotterdam School of Management, has had two papers withdrawn after a report from the Inquiry Committee on Scientific Integrity looked into suspicions that the professor had committed scientific errors. read...
read moreJames Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D, aged 92, is a chemist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis. He is called the 'Godfather of Global Warming'. What he was, to most people, was an alarmist more on the order of President Obama's Science Czar John Holdren, a doomsday zealot. And I don't mean 'alarmist' in the American political sense, i.e., anyone who accepts the science of climate...
read moreDid Roman influence extend to the farthest reaches of Asia? Maybe it was the other way around and Japan or its trading partners were common in Europe.Either way, glass jewelry of Roman design has been found in the Fifth Century "Utsukushi" burial mound in Nagaoka, near Kyoto, Japan, researchers said Friday.
read moreProfessor Richard Dawkins, the bestselling author who has been wrong about biology as often as he has been right, is taking Edward O. Wilson, Science 2.0's favorite myrmecologist, to task for his latest book. read...
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