Fertilizers producing wastelands in semi arid and arid regions. Some months ago I attended a conference in Germany where excessive use of nitrogen fertilizers was a cause of concern for the European…

Pollution in holy rivers is going to higher levels and it is threat to mankind. Arsenic once reported from West Bengal waters is deadly poison to human health. Recently a report said arsenic level in…

It's been a while. And now I'm back only to say goodbye. Well, not really. It's just that I've decided to go on to a more personal blog at (drumroll, please):    The Beast, the Bard, and…

Isn’t it nice when someone does your work for you?  For some years now, NIL Technololgy have been sending me science news emails as a form of advertising.  Mostly these are to do with…

Just a placeholder and another H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 Just regular text A link V(\mathbf{x})=-\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{G\rho (\mathbf{r})}{\left|\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{r} \right|}dv(\mathbf{r}) V(\mathbf{x…

Ron Breslow of Columbia University in New York has denied charges he plagiarized...himself. Hey, science is tough.  You have to cite pretty thoroughly. There are lots of instances where entire…

A group of neuroscientists and ethicists have recently published a paper warning about the perils of the use of pharmacological drugs for cognitive enhancement by healthy individuals. The paper can…

A statement about more people focusing on the content (rather than side issues) of my column lately has led to an out of hand comment section over on Enrico Uva’s Quote of the Week. The comments are…

As seen in the article on the hydrogen atom the value of a number numerically equivalent to Planck's reduced constant comes from the equations for the energy of the electron as…

SUMMARY George Friedman has observed that the entire pattern of traditional life is collapsing and no clear alternative patterns are emerging. This view is appropriate to our times. The human race is…

The LHC is ramping up in instantaneous luminosity according to schedules, and has just surpassed the measure of one inverse femtobarn of collisions delivered to the CMS experiment, as shown in the…

I was very happy to note that recently there were important meetings in India held at highest level and some movements of some groups to save Yamuna. What makes me wonder all these groups look…

Recently, Real Clear Science drew our attention to Chimps show lethal side, about incidents where chimps kill other chimps.  Or “apes kill each other”, as the article actually says, but in my…

This is my first article in here. I found Science 2.0 all by accident, looking for articles to update my scoop.it journal focused on Nuclear Physics (in case you are interested here it is). My first…

Last month I wrote an equation with New York Times columnist, John Tierney, calculating the chances a celebrity marriage will last. Some looked rosy (Kate and Prince William) and some looked less…

"These behaviors can be irritating for family members." --on stimming in autistic children My children stim. I stim--come on, for Pete's sake--every one of us--autistic or not-- STIMS. We all…

Looking at the list of snarky puzzles, games with simple groups was a recurring theme. March 20, A Toy Model For Q8 Snarky puzzle What is required so that a system undergoing change can be described…

RELIGION     As the brief last chapter in this collection of essays, you as the reader may wonder why I’m dealing with religion now. The answer is that all the previous chapters…

It's taken decades but the U.S. Forest Service is finally being allowed to use science in managing America's natural resources. Instead of environmental activists tying up science and the government…

When storage is cheap, finding data has value. A $600 hard drive can store all of the world's music so how do you find a song you like? Math can answer those mysteries, says Kaggle president and…