An international team of physicists from Russia and Germany have successfully applied a theory from 2009 to cool a relatively large macroscopic mirror (1.2 millimeters across) with lower fundamental…

All through the month of March, from 11:57 PM to midnight, visitors in Times Square can see artist Marco Brambilla's vision of Apollo 18, the mission that never was. We may sometimes think science is…

Britain's House of Lords voted 280 to 48 to permit the use of three-person IVF - mitochondrial donation to prevent incurable mitochondrial diseases, which afflict around 4,000 children per year - on…

Sleep is essential for overall health. Without regular age appropriate amounts of sleep, adolescents are at risk for developing a variety of conditions such as depression, anxiety, weight change, and…

Thanks to TransGlobal Scientific for the sample serological pipettes used in my article "DIY Titration Lab Ware."

On Feb. 11, ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), atmospheric reentry demonstrator, successfully completed its first test flight, ending with a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean and one…

Six months form here, there won't be a single whatsapp user in the world. Why? Because Telegram exists. References:  http://www.whatsapp.com/, https://telegram.org/ PS: Of course I might be…

Erith Industrial Unit Fire A fire in Erith, U.K. at an industrial unit triggered over 50 emergency calls and was attended by 15 fire appliances and 97 firefighters.  The blaze appears to be at…

Wikipedia's definition of energy can only be qualified as useless. Here is mine: A bird that flies, a molecule in a gas possess energy since they move: this is kinetic energy. A stone you hold…

In 2013, the US FDA got tired of being stonewalled when it came to seeing proof of Google-backed 23andMe marketing claims regarding BRCA-related genetic risk and drug response, along with marketing…

The concepts of a single classroom study came about after my module, now a published book, Naming and Writing Simple Inorganic Chemical Formulas was piloted to see if modular instruction on inorganic…

Time is imprinted in our genes. Daily circadian rhythms (circa, about; diem, a day) control the harmonious oscillation in all biological systems. “At the gene level, circadian rhythm is the most…

One way to look at addiction is to consider it a form of learning, a type of learning that is extremely effective in its ability to affect the adolescent brain, report researchers working under…

Panspermia Did life evolve on Earth, or did it arrive from space? This article was prompted by articles in the U.K. Daily Mail and Daily Mirror.  There is nothing new in these news reports:…

         “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” T. Dolzhansy (Russian Geneticist)          “We admit…

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa puzzles astrobiologists and sparks the imagination of extraterrestrial life seekers. It is believed that the moon has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, where life could…

On Friday I traveled to Belluno, a town just south of the north-eastern Italian alps, to give a lecture on particle physics to high-school students for the "International Masterclasses". This was the…

What is "Navigated Voltage"? The short answer to the question "what is navigated voltage?" is that there is no such thing.  A slightly longer answer is that the correct term is "induced voltage"…

We tend to think society is more sexualized today but perhaps it's only now that the common people are getting it on the way elites once did. In the Eilat Mountain region around Nahal Roded in Israel…

Toxic Cloud In Spain Caused By Rocket Fuel A toxic orange cloud hanging over Igualada was caused when two chemicals being delivered to the Simar S.A. storage facility were accidentally mixed. The…