I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be anolder man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I hadcancer. And stemcells might be to blame! At therelatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be anolder man’s disease: prostate cancer. How couldthis…

A couple of curious squid stories have been peppering my news feed this weekend:First, a dried squid in Hawaii looked enough like a severed hand to get the homicide brigade called out to the beach.…

When you think of underwater photography, you probably think of the clear ocean waters of the Bahamas or other exotic tropical locales - certainly that's where I would go. Andrej Belic has other…

When you think of underwater photography, you probably think of the clear ocean waters of the Bahamas or other exotic tropical locales - certainly that's where I would go. Andrej Belic has other…

It was many years ago we pointed out some real flaws in the 'skeptic' movement - first is that it is mostly about ridiculing religion and Bigfoot and if those are the only things you can be skeptical…

It was many years ago we pointed out some real flaws in the 'skeptic' movement - first is that it is mostly about ridiculing religion and Bigfoot and if those are the only things you can be skeptical…

In the last few days I described in some detail (here and here) the six searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson just produced by CMS, the experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider to which I…

You know how you'll be swimming along (metaphorically), going, well geez, things are going pretty well, knock on wood? And then, bamm! You say those words, even invoking superstitious protections,…

There's a giant ceramic squid in a New York art gallery. Walking into the gallery, you encounter the 16-foot-long, beached creature, its opalescent, slick-looking flesh seeming to putrefy, lying in a…

Equations don't sell. Pop science editors tell us that each equation added to a book halves its sales figure. If this is true, Sir Roger Penrose's Cycles of Time, which was recently released in…

Under 5 launches per year instead of the 65 launches per year NASA projected. $450 million per shuttle launch instead of $50 million NASA projected. A risk of catastrophic failure of 1 in 100 instead…

Under 5 launches per year instead of the 65 launches per year NASA projected. $450 million per shuttle launch instead of $50 million NASA projected. A risk of catastrophic failure of 1 in 100 instead…

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OF NEEM Priyanka Srivastavaa, Mithilesh Singha and Rakhi Chaturvedi*a *aDepartment of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology- Guwahati Guwahati - 781039, Assam,…

More than half of the world’s population, especially women and preschool children are victim of micronutrient malnutrition, primarily resulting from the consumption of diets with lower bio-available…

Norway just had a tragedy - the kind of random violence that social scientists, who we all wish would take a holiday during horrific events, will try and find correlation and causation for, like he…

In my short summary of analyses recently published by CMS, yesterday I left out one which had not yet been released. It is the search for the "golden channel" of Higgs decay, the one which motivated…

The synthesis of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and biology, pursued in fits and starts over the years by an eccentric cast of thinkers, has produced a few scientific red herrings, but the overall…

Molluscs are Marvellous! — as regular readers of “Squid-a-Day” will know. The recent presentation there of Celebrate Squid Babies brought to mind the following, from Darwin’s notebooks…

PLANT TISSUE CULTURE AND APPLIED PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY A Kumar and S Roy Plant biotechnology, especially genetic transformation, represents one of powerful tools for the improvement of various…