"Whether it's shunning all grains and dairy on a paleo diet, or bingeing on fruit juice to cure your cancer, "fad diets" push some misleading ideas about healthy eating. But knowing some red flags that are common signs of dodgy diets can help you avoid getting sucked in."

"The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been going on for over half a century. It has mostly drawn a blank. But once in a while there is a flurry of excitement. Here are some of the highlights."

2014 had its fair share of landmark scientific accomplishment .. there was also no shortage of high-profile figures eager to publicly and shamelessly denounce well-established science-sometimes with serious consequences for public policy. So without further ado, the most egregious science denial of 2014:

John Fischer, Ashwaubenon HS, Green Bay, WI, has created an artificial "Two Liter Creek" in his classroom for water quality studies in the middle of a Wisconsin winter. It is simply a 50-gallon aquarium with a pump that lifts water into an array of 15 two-liter bottles that have been mounted on a pegboard.

A lesson about every single element on the periodic table

"Professor Tim Entwisle, Royal Botanic Gardens director, will release a book Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia's changing seasons in September, that will argue there should be five seasons and these should include two springs."

Spring starts on the first day of September, right? Not if Dr Tim Entwisle, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and the author of 'Sprinter and Sprummer', has anything to do with it. Here he argues we should scrap the European approach and adopt a five season model.

"In my opinion the most thoughtful and poignant quotation about the environment is the following: We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children" .. So what is the origin of this saying?

"This is a video journal of a CSIRO Astronomy course by education officer Rob Hollow that was held at the ANTF Radio Telescope "The Dish" at Parkes NSW on May 2009."

"At the Exploratorium, we dissect cow eyes to show people how an eye functions, and look at the parts that make up an eye. In this video, one of our staff Explainers demonstrates a cow eye dissection."

"How does science work? Kind of like a pinball machine. Check it out! The Academy's Charles Griswold takes us through the process of science with an exciting new spider discovery."

"This extension adds 4 themes to your gallery with more than 400 cliparts dealing with security at work. Better than bitmap, cliparts are vector graphics in ODF format: there is no lost of clarity when magnifying. In Draw, you may modify them or retrieve some parts to build your own signs"

"Science is amazing, but science reporting can be confusing at times and misleading at worst. The folks at Compound Interest put together this reference graphic that will help you pick out good articles from bad ones, and help you qualify the impact of the study you're reading"

"NASA invites you -- and everyone else on the planet -- to take part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day this year with the agency's #GlobalSelfie event."

"The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch."

"Here at BA Central I see a lot of truly ridiculous conspiracy theories. Over the years there's been the Moon Hoax, various asteroids NASA was covering up that would hit the Earth (or wipe us out somehow via electricity), and of course the end of the Earth over and over and over again. Yet happily, we're still here. Yet sadly, so are these silly theories."

" In 2012 I started tweeting science facts related to football during the game, and it was so much fun I did it again in 2013. So I figure, why not carry on the tradition? If you follow me on Twitter you'll catch the tweets live, but after every quarter I'll update this post with the latest batch, right up to the end of the game."

"Fire and water: mortal enemies? Not so fast! Here are 5 ways to start a fire, using water."

"How to write electron configurations using the periodic table, or why I think that ptable.com is a great tool for chemistry students!"

Screencast of a sustainable house built by a junior science student #ozscied. Made using #Minecraft http://www.screenr.com/vh08