What I enjoy most is upsetting my own apple cart, presumptions about how things are as provided by my earliest teachers.  The image I learned about real numbers has negative numbers on the left…

Dragonflies, from the order Odonata, have been around for over 250 million years. The most conspicuous difference in their evolution over time is the steady shrinking of their wingspan from well over…

Plants have a capacity to uptake minerals from the soil and use them for synthesis of their own cellular components. Plants are autotrophs and they can make their own food and human beings are…

If you watched the new "Star Trek" reboot, you had to chuckle when two heroes were plummeting toward terra firma at terminal velocity and were beamed aboard the Enterprise in the nick of time,…

Today in a show on television called “Asar”, Mr. Amir Khan rightly upheld my point that it's better to eat slightly damaged or slightly infected fruits instead of eating totally shiny and infection-…

Given all the Higgsmania, I thought it appropriate to draw attention to another topic on which much energy [excuse the pun] had been spent previously; Fukushima.  The English version of the…

I am seeing H everywhere this morning ! The picture below was taken yesterday near CERN, but today, upon walking to my department, I see H reflected on the front windows too...

Are you bored of the Higgsteria yet? Well, here's another issue that needs your attention. The Giant’s causeway is one of the most beautiful examples of columnar jointing in the world, formed during…

What is organic farming and “organic food”?  In the EU in many stores, particularly in Germany, there are shelves with the label “organic food”. To my surprise they cost almost double or one…

This is an apology and a promise - as every time there is a big event or deadline, everything else gets pushed down, creating a long backlog. My mailbox is in an awful state, and here too I am doing…

Crocodiles and humans are natural competitors. In all our history they have been there, silently waiting in the waters of our shared world, and only in our most recent history have we had the wisdom…

You remember when temperatures became really moderate and every heat wave could no longer be called global warming because we were not warning.  We were enduring climate change instead. That…

Below is a live streaming webcast from the auditorium at CERN, where they will be revealing the latest news on the Higgs discovery. Science 2.0's Dr. Tommaso Dorigo is writing live from there so…

"That's something you don't see every day, Chauncey.""What's that, Edgar?""A man eating a whole live squid mere weeks after news reports that eating whole squid can lead to mouth insemination." "But…

So, currently, the US is hosting the world's largest naval excercises from Hawaii (RIMPAC 2012). The New Zealand navy, amongst the other 22 nations participating, has been refused entry to Pearl…

Greenpeace activists stuck in the 1970s, you need to take a lesson from Madonna; always be reinventing yourself. We don't hear much about 'Nuclear Winter' since the Soviet Union collapsed and sold…

Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiated at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, nations committed to developing and implementing climate protection measures "appropriate…

Biodiversity loss and deforestation in tropical climatic conditions is sustained by the natural regeneration process during monsoon rains but what I observed this Saturday is not permissible or…

Since "The Avengers" is a giant movie this year, when you think of something that shoots lightning, you might think of Thor.  If so, perhaps your clever joke would be "Can we name that Laser-…

Sometimes declaring bankruptcy is a good thing. In the case of Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that had American taxpayers on the hook for $400 million, the good thing is they…