Read on for my review of Avery Gilbert's new book What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life. Who says science has to be dull?

See my latest published book review. Only a Theory is written by the scientist/author whose testimony was most critical in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case in which community members challenged a school board's decision to include Intelligent Design in the science curriculum and won.

Since September 11, U.S. politicians have repeatedly reminded us that the journalists in the Arab world are biased against America and the West. New research finds that much of the conventional wisdom about Arab journalists that has shaped U.S. public diplomacy toward the region lacks substance.

Using advanced functional imaging methods, New York University neuroscientists have found that certain motion pictures can exert considerable control over brain activity. Moreover, the impact of films varies according to movie content, editing, and directing style.

In the middle of the fourth century AD, a series of earthquakes struck the port of Kourion on the southern coast of Cyprus. The town had no doubt experienced its share of seismic events, but nothing prepared its inhabitants for the major earthquake and tsunami that struck just after dawn, most likely on July 21, AD 365.

When archaeologists excavated the site, among the many discoveries was the heartbreaking tableau of a skeletal family. The man holds his wife protectively while she cradles their one-year-old child. The image, both poignant and instructive, graces the cover of Stanford University Earth Science and geophysics professor Amos Nur's new book, Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God, written with the assistance of his graduate student Dawn Burgess.

Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. Researchers at the University of Washington are trying to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries, perhaps even finding a cure for HIV.

I won't have time to post the latest newsletter for the Science Shelf Book Review Archive or mail it to subscribers for a few days, but here's a link.

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet traffic worldwide.

In 2004, the Detroit Pistons found the piece that made them complete. Listen up, theoretical physicists and pioneers of biotechnology. You have a need: the Need for Sheed.

Preschool children 2 years and older should spend no more than two hours a day watching television and using the computer. That's according to recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).