A group of patients withneurodegenerative diseases have helped researchers discover a neurological basis of embarrassment.    The thumb-sized bit of tissue in the right hemisphere of the…

  I have always approached the breast cancer as a problem of search and destroy: find each breast tumor while it is still so small that it hasn’t spread, and zap it before it does (Gordon, 2011…

You know this already - given sufficient forward speed, a bicycle pushed sideways will not fall over. Since the bicycle was invented, scientists have postulated various reasons as to why a bicycle…

A new study of the eyes of fossil animals in Science overturns the conventional wisdom that dinosaurs were active by day while early mammals moved at night.  Instead, dinosaurs like …

The first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the underground molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano suggests that the plume beneath the volcanically active area, known…

The Xenon 100 collaboration has finally released the results of their data analysis, and the results are saying that there is no Dark Matter in sight so far. Since we live in an age where time is…

The greatest hurdle before committing suicide is the fear of dying and death as well as the fear of hurting people we care about. In order to assist suicide, Suicidal Philosophy alleviates these…

This morning this programme (45 minutes) was on BBC Radio 4. In Our Time: the Neutrino   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0106tjc0 Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the neutrino.  …

Melilotus officinalis Linn.Vernacular Names :- Bengal : Baupiring ; English : King’s Clover ; Hindi : Aspurk . Family :- Papilionaceae. Distribution :- It is found throughout India. Morphology :- It…

Written with Kathleen Leopold and originally posted at Autism Blogs Directory (and edited for a wider audience)Kim:  This video of an assistant principal explaining and demonstrating a full body…

A short post today, to mention the latest issue of the CMS Times, a online publication with news from the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The CMS Times is always informative and a…

Arctic Ice April 2011 The Nares ice bridge is still blocking the strait.  My forecast of breakup on April 07 ± 3 days was wrong.  A forecast is only as good as the assumptions it is based…

Tinospora sinensis (Lour. ) Merr syn. T. malabaricaMiers ex Hook. f.; T. tomentosa Miers ex Hook. f. Menispermaceae family, and the stem is used as medicine. The plant grows wild in…

If you want to take Easter away from religious people, you create Easter eggs and Easter bunnies and Rankin-Bass cartoons.  But what if the very term 'Easter' is offensive to schools in…

If you want to take Easter away from religious people, you create Easter eggs and Easter bunnies and Rankin-Bass cartoons.  But what if the very term 'Easter' is offensive to schools in…

Liaoconodon hui, a complete fossil mammal from the Mesozoic, has been found in China and includes a long-sought transitional middle ear. The specimen shows the bones associated with hearing in…

When we are 'up', we are happy, 'down' not so much.  'Right' is trustworthy while 'in left field' not so much, according to language and culture. But we don't all think right is right. Take…

White Dwarfs Fancy a trip to Sirius?  This is what you might see as you are approaching your destination. (Picture courtesy NASA/ESA, via the Hubble project.)  Sirius is a multi-famous…

For 20 years, some seismologists in Japan, such as Katsuhiko Ishibashi, now professor emeritus at Kobe University, have warned of the seismic and tsunami hazards to the safety of nuclear power…

Only a moment ago, young James Clerk Maxwell asked Mrs. Murdoch to fetch his parents. Now all three are standing in the kitchen doorway, but he is watching the reflection that dances above the…