Way back in 1982 in USA  I had a chance to discuss with the old botanist Laetsch  who published scholarly research paper detailing structure of chloroplasts in C4 plant using electron…

Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development. Ashwani Kumar The continued use of fossil fuels willrequire a significant amount of carbon dioxide to be removed by either…

Scattered across Santa Clara County — home during our tenure at Stanford — are 23 parcels of land so polluted that they’ve been targeted for government intervention. These “Superfund sites,”numbering…

Cancer cells, like normal cells, begin to perish as soon as the temperature hits 43°C. So, the obvious challenge is to find out how cancer cells can be heated up without affecting the normal, healthy…

In their seminal paper of 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) put forward the following criterion, which they considered reasonable: If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict…

Long before "Star Wars", science-fiction had talked of robot walkers.  In "War of the Worlds", even aliens from Mars had giant, mechanized tripeds and they got killed by a few germs.   But…

I discovered several of my articles at http://onbilgi.com/ today, all of them lifted from here, all of them without my name as author, all of them without links back to here. Not only did I find…

A few years back I heard Joy Christian give a talk on his disproof of Bell's theorem, where he explained his idea for an experiment involving two hemispheres with a mass stuck on each. To me it…

Botany: A Blooming History And now we come to part three of this series 3. A Hidden World which is the world of the genes. However, this is a massive topic, and I’m going to split into two parts,…

Joanna Dolgoff covers new research on how obesity spreads through social contact over at Huffington Post. I'm sure this comes as a huge surprise to those of us who have watched our…

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans race and gender considerations for college admissions and government hiring and contracting, has been struck down by an appeals court, meaning merit…

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans race and gender considerations for college admissions and government hiring and contracting, has been struck down by an appeals court, meaning merit…

Maybe fantasy baseball scouting will start to list eye color along with which side players bat from and how their home park is configured - lighter-colored eyes, it seems, don't absorb light the way…

Maybe fantasy baseball scouting will start to list eye color along with which side players bat from and how their home park is configured - lighter-colored eyes, it seems, don't absorb light the way…

A recent BBC docu-drama called 'Atlantis' recreated the last days of the Bronze Age civilisation on the island of Thera (now known as Santorini), that I've meant to blog about for a while now. …

An article on Science 2.0 addresses a new study  on just how easy it is to create false memories. According to the article, researchers "show a unique pattern of brain activity when…

Looking back at over 2 years of writing, this column has covered a lot of ground.  Here's a topical index as proof. Topical Index (from Feb 2009, current to June 15th, 2011) Science Fiction…

Growing human, perfectly matching organs inside a pig and then transplanting them into humans is not a new idea - it may revolutionize medicine - but a new discovery may also allow pig tissue to be…

We've all had an Asian person say, 'All you Americans look alike' - but they aren't being racist, there may be some biology at work. The brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person…

If you pay a lot of taxes and get little to show for it, you don't have much trust in government, but if you are in a disaster-prone area, you have more confidence in government than most, say…