OK, I agree lectures aren't the best format, but Google and Wikipedia aren't a substitute: The old-style lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a large group of students, is…

A few weeks ago, I got a text message on my mobile. It said it was from my credit card company (and it had the right one). It said they had to talk with me urgently about my account, and I should…

There are things or entities in or on an object that could be present and be proven to exist by experiments and yet one can not see because they are too small to be seen by our naked eyes or some…

Beppe Grillo, one of the most successful bloggers in the world (last time I checked his blog was number 11 in the world by traffic) descends in Italy's confusing political arena. In what many had…

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced plans to launch a new journal devoted to the molecular aspects of neurological science in both health and disease. The bimonthly journal will be…

In case you didn't know it, Michael Jackson died recently and speculation is that the volume of his recorded material is so great that we could be awash in "never before released" songs as soon as it…

I posted a very short rough paper here a while back.  "Dark Matter and Energy as Particles and Fields of Unobserved Scalar and Vector Fields (PDF) (rev2).." Since then certain comments and…

About a month ago, we had another instance in a series of discredited scientific studies, that latest one in the medical field. The short version here is that Dr Timothy Kuklo, who worked for the U…

I want to start my first scientific blog, where different environmental questions will be published. Excuse me for my bad English, I try to learn it.. 

Here's a short tale about scientific journal editing, to complement my lament about the lack of Editors in Web2.0.  At the risk of being a scientific pariah, I believe some works can be…

In economic theory, the law of supply and demand is considered one of the fundamental principles governing an economy. It is described as the state where as supply increases the price will tend to…

OK, the lawyer thing is no surprise.  Check out this table from the recent Pew survey on science and the public that's been generating buzz on the blogs: Savor the irony: in the US we fight…

From August 30th to September 2nd I will attend the 29th edition of "Physics in Collision" in Kobe, Japan, to hear a few interesting talks and to present a poster on behalf of CMS, about the search…

I'd love to hear from readers who are science journalists. PZ Myers has posted this story from one of his readers who's trying to start a career as a freelance science journalist: When I submitted…

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1.  Dave Deamer wanted to know if we think there is a genetic basis for nerdiness?   Egads, what if it were so?…

Sometimes playing online chess gives me some satisfactions. I only play 5-minute chess, but five minutes (times two, five for each player) are a looong time, during which adrenalin flows free in my…

Disappointment is my daily bread. - Oswald Avery, who died before he could win a Nobel Prize for his decades-long, painstaking work demonstrating that DNA is the carrier of genetic information. (From…

Google's Chrome OS is going after Windows. Is this going to be a game changer? The plan is part of Google’s bet that a huge shift in computing is under way. In Google’s view, Web connections will…

PhRMA is trying to up their street cred with the newest star pulled into its galaxy: rapper/actor Ice-T. Honestly, I like Ice-T. As one of the original hip-hoppers and pioneer of gangsta rap, he…

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles, which best explains my conduct in its entirety. That I have published so little is attributable to the same…