In 1981 the philosopher Peter Singer published a book titled The Expanding Circle – Ethics, Evolution and Moral Progress. The book was inspired by EO Wilson’s Sociobiology – The New Synthesis,…

Russians at the JINR Nuclotron believe they have found a new particle, the E(38), as reported in this paper at ArXiv. The particle interacts with quarks and gluons only and appears in collisions on…

The food business, including those claiming to be superior because they are selling organic or 'health' products, is still business.  They exist to lure you in and make you buy as much stuff as…

The EPA has declared water, the substance the Clean Water Act was created to protect, a pollutant - and it is getting the federal government dragged into court. How so?  They are requiring…

Photosynthesis inplants can fall into three types C3 , C 4 and CAM. C3 photosynthesis: Photosynthesis is conversion of light energy into chemical energy utilizing chlorophyll (  LHC II.PS II…

Photosynthesis is conversion of light energy into chemical energy utilizing  Carbon di oxide, light energy, chlorophyll ( LHC II. PS II and LHC I PS I  and  electron transport chain )…

The sailing event of the recent 2012 London Olympics were held at Weymouth, half-way along Dorset and East Devon’s famous Jurassic Coast.  Thinks: Sources: Sailing picture: goc2012.culture.gov…

China, as you would expect with all those people, is the world's biggest energy guzzler.  They are also the world's biggest polluter. Nothing wrong with being the biggest energy user, it would…

Don't like Paul Ryan?  You're not alone.  When he was an outsider, Democrats gushed over how rational and amazing he was but now that he is a Republican Vice-Presidential contender, all…

The weak force is the most mysterious force in the standard model, it is the only force thatisn't long range, thanks to the Higgs mechanism, the weak forces carriers gain a mass can only travel a…

If you've seen the rash of 'open late' advertisements for junk food, you probably thought it was appealing to some long-tail demographic of fat people who absolutely must have a taco at 1 AM. Nope,…

Drug discovery projects often require analysis and visualization of large number of chemical structures to identify new drug candidates. Growth of chemical databases (Ref. 1) has made millions of…

An April 29, 2011, a low split-finger fastball thrown by Yankees right-handed pitcher Freddy Garcia inspired a whole science study. As I have discussed in the past (I am plagiarizing myself from the…

Invasive species have been something of a pet peeve of mind ever since I found about them several years ago.  Who knew that the honeysuckle I enjoyed as a child actually belonged in Japan? …

The Olympics are coming to a close and now the British get to reflect on what, if anything, has changed in the world due to a gaming event designed to make the world a smaller and better place. The…

Biofuels utilisation to  mitigate Climate Change   Ashwini Kumar Alexander vonHumboldt Fellow Energy PlantationDemonstration Project Centre. Department of Botany, University ofRajasthan,…

The way to get people to know you, attach your name to your face, and realize you are knowledgeable is, maybe suprisingly, to ask questions at meetings, as often as possible. You do not understand…

It's easy to get depressed reading the criticisms of self-loathing types who demand a zero-defects culture.  If some weirdo neuroscience PhD student shoots up a movie theater, well, that is…

Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden recently set out to test the unwritten rule of the sea that, during maritime disasters, women and children are first in the lifeboats. What they found…

Another disabled person denied a transplant because of his disability. Another petition in hopes of changing the hospital's decision (go sign it, please). After the last time, with Mia…