Although they only account for a fraction of the synapses in the visual cortex, neurons in the thalamus get their message across loud and clear by coordination -- simultaneously hitting the "send"…

Simon Singh Wins - US Law To The Rescue! The British Courts do not indulge themselves in bogus judgements - not even on April 1st. This article is genuine. A note on common law: Both the US and the…

One of the most interesting things about plants is that they do exhibit behavior (i.e. movement in response to their environment), even if humans rarely notice it. We don't notice their actions…

Apocalyptic Sci-Fi: Dhalgren Dhalgren is an unconventional but outstanding post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, and New York Magazine has an excellent feature piece on the book this month: Samuel R. Delany…

I was admitted to one University and the oath University wanted to be filled by all the alumni and students included a sentence about switching off lights when not in use. I pondered a lot how…

Today computer science research has crossed a major threshold in producing a system that can be considered to display true intelligence. The system is purported to possess the ability to engage in…

I chose this unusual name (Wabi ) and placed it in front of my name "Don" around 1996 . The word comes from the Japanese and Chinese culture . I have four books on Wabi…

Leaving aside those who dont believe in any religion most of the Global population is aligned to 4 or 5 religions mainly based on continents or group of coutries or pursue some kind of mythology or…

I have been waiting for the expiry of the embargo on this story at midnight GMT.  I am now free to publish what I am confident will be a major scoop for scientificblogging.com IPCC Says: We Give…

Already well-known for its short character length limits, in a press conference scheduled for later today, Twitter will announce that it will severely shorten its allowable “tweets”. “I’m frankly…

You have to love a company that not only treats its employees well but can have fun and laugh at itself. (Hint, hint, Microsoft.) Today, Google changed their name to Topeka (see link for proper uses…

The CDF Collaboration blessed yesterday afternoon the results of a search for massive Gravitons decaying into pairs of Z bosons. And it is a startling new result! Usually after a blessing (which is…

If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't…

A team of paleontologists said this week that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth. Researchers came to the conclusion after examining the The skull…

Tracking 18- to 21-year-old men enlisted in the Israeli army, researchers from Tel Aviv University say they have demonstrated an important connection between the number of cigarettes young males…

The Role of Annelids in Global Warming I've search the web for this without success.  I found a few references to it being rejected, but no published example but i found this related…

Geologists have long thought that the rapid global cooling period nearly 13,000 years ago known as the Younger Dryas (Big Freeze) was triggered by the melting Laurentide ice sheet. But geological…

Researchers from Uppsala and Stockholm Universities say that the hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant. The conclusion suggests…

Silicon is the basic material for most microprocessors and memory chips. But for a long time the electronics industry has been pursuing novel organic materials to create semiconductor products…

How quickly the Andes Mountains reached their current height, an average elevation of 13,000 feet, has been a contentious debate in geological circles. Some researchers claim the mountains rose…