Elsevier is spamming my mailbox. You would not expect that from a large publishing company who makes money from publishing scientific papers, but that's what happens. I think I am not alone in…

in part disparate, and in part overlapping, or in exchange, I work on a model for fundamental physics and reality.  The model presents a tiered ternary of perspective and perspective exchange;…

The path leading to today's technological society has gone through several phases of evolution. Carl Sagan distinguished three main phases of evolution: biological evolution, development of the…

  Following on my last article, I'd like to ask the question, weither some day, dark matter might be useful or even vital to a civilisation. This depends on the properties of the stuff,…

MIT physicist Cesar Hidalgo is experimenting with a new television program that gets scientists talking about their research and the wonders of discovery. He's not really like Jon Stewart, much more…

Start the year off with a new toy model for gravity. It is a toy, so let's just play with it and see what we learn. Feel free in the comments section to vote if I should keep this toy or return it…

  The FDA puts a lot of stock into studies done on mice and many a warning label has been the outcome. Seems most of the really bad side effects hit pregnant rats the hardest. So, you can feel…

Edwin Hubble's observation about the spectral redshift from nearby ``nebulae'' (galaxy 10 Mpc), published in 1929 got interpreted in terms of an ``Expanding Universe'' and eventually the ``Big Bang…

Last March I posted about a little problem with the east cost longfin squid fishery: The nets that fishermen use to catch longfin squid also ensnare butterfish. And butterfish populations are very…

Last March I posted about a little problem with the east cost longfin squid fishery: The nets that fishermen use to catch longfin squid also ensnare butterfish. And butterfish populations are very…

Okay, not despair. But frustration. This is my fourth year in this PhD program, and it's getting to be crunch time. Everything that influences and directs my degree program are pushing me formore…

Einstein’s Achievements ( Part : 1) Einstein’s theory for Brownian motion:    The motion of tiny particles suspended in liquid is caused by the kinetic energy of the liquid’s molecules.…

  Over in print media today, New Scientist's cover article was on a "new" idea for what dark matter is. Apparently, dark matter should be composed of Dark Atoms, in a theory introduced by…

Through my colleague Marco Cirelli I got to know about the effort of 36 high-school student of Charlottesville (VA), who are fund-raising for a trip to CERN this spring. I thus visited their home…

Photo: Michele Pokrandt Orchidaceae get their name from the Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), which literally means "testicle", a nod to the naughty nub shape of their roots. In Greek mythology, Orchis was…

Dragonflies, from the order Odonata, have been around for over 250 million years.  I've seen fossil dragonflies from the Eocene some 50 million years ago that would have been exquisite monsters…

For the last two days we have had our BBC television naturalist Chris Packham presenting us with “Nature’s Weirdest Events”. Here are my three favourites from this session. Exploding toads In…

A latest report on the Internet shows that the number of internet subscriptions in Kenya reached 4.7 million in the quarter from October to December 2010, as compared to 3.2 million at the end…

If you have not already read the hysterical Texts from Cephalopods, you must do so. Preferably somewhere that it is acceptable to shriek or snort with laughter. However, beforehand, you must prepare…

MANY TIMES I THOUGHT THAT WHAT IS THE MOST FASTEST MODE OF DATA COMMUNICATION.IS IT THE ONLY WAY TO COMMUNICATE IN BINARY UNIT. NO. FASTEST MODE OF COMMUNICATION IS TIME INTERVAL SO I AM  DOING…