Mastering Your PhD Getting the Most Out of Progress Reviews Bart Noordam, Patricia Gosling Netherlands 28 September 2007 Value these moments of interaction with your supervisor. … If you are well-…

Haptics - Virtuality Explored Haptics refers to sensing and manipulation through touch. Since the early part of twentieth century, the term haptics has been used by psychologists for studies on the…

The HIV Virus replicates by transfering it's DNA to the infected "HOSTS" (The Person with HIV) Blood Cells! There is a way to Stop this transfer by injesting Pill form Calcium. While I have no "…

Shelley Batts at Retrospectacle, one of my favorite science writers that, ummmm, isn't writing here ( sorry folks - we can't have all the good ones ) is in the running for a $10,000 student blogging…

I found this blog by Jim Till at the University of Toronto. He's a big fan of open access and, of course, we are too. Check him out.

This essay is all about how society perceives scientist. From many different perspectives. I ask and try to answer the question. Why does science hold interest for so few people?   Do a…

Finally, someone has put a stake in the heart of this Craig Venter madness.

Hi, I will be much obliged to anybody that will find it of interest to comment on my following thought: As a critical thinker and one that is affiliated with the scientific community in general and…

Social news acquisition: MSNBC buys Newsvine.

что ж вполне всё традиционно. Можно быстренько что-то написать, как вот эта заметка :)

How we all can make a difference on occasion. But one Saturday morning in May, Eduardo Arias did something that would reverberate across six continents. He read the label on a 59-cent tube of…

In biological sciences, the word nature is arbitrarily and profusely used to explain anything that do not have a clear explanation by known scientific methods. For example, when we explain…

Quantum gravity can be understood by considering the logical consqquences of a single unifying postulate or principle of nature. I call it the postulate of quantized space time. First some…

"The science of gender bending and transsexualism"(1) has been and probably always will be controversial.  In this composition I will examine how that controversey usually plays out.  In…

Beginners guide to aerodynamics, though unless you are a terrorist your concern is probably more in landing than flying.

I know we're not big in the 'blogosphere' and most of our readers are not bloggers themselves the way readers for some sites are but there is a little nomination thing for your favorite science…

Sorry for the long absence - I've been overwhelmed by health issues, but I'm back. There is a lot of recent interesting research in genomics and systems biology to blog about, so stay tuned.

Top 20 science sites - we are #17. We'd be higher if we could figure out what that Alexa thing is.

Because spies have online lives too: they get their own social network.

According to any standard physics textbook,it was the "ultraviolet catastrophe" which led Max Planck to hypothesize about quanta.The problem was that the observed spectrum of a blackbody didn't match…