The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center will welcome His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to its public grand-opening celebration Saturday…

Now, this may sound like a New Age centre for feel-good flaky philosophies, but it isn't: it's a neuroscience research laboratory. Run by Richard Davidson, who became famous for testing the brain…

Part One? Just for giggles one day I went over to Cleverbot.com to have a little chat with what is proportedly the "latest and greatest" AI on the internet.There was a rumor going around that it had…

Rock Scissors Paper Custard Ok, forget the scissors and paper - this article is about rocks and custard. The Sliding Rocks Of Racetrack Playa Racetrack Playa is a dry lake bed in Death Valley…

Quasicrysstals What is quasicrystal? I have it in mind that quasicrystal is the crystal with 5-fold symmetry, from the course of crystallography. It is well know that according to translational…

This should be a good read:Understanding Climate's Influence on Human Evolution The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined…

This will be all greek to everyone. From Rich Shull Once hailed as the next Temple Grandin. As we finally connected life from our mr/dd roots to what ever we do now as old high functioning…

A brand new result in Higgs boson physics has been presented by my old-time CDF colleague Wei-Ming Yao at the Moriond QCD conference two days ago. It is the combination of CDF and DZERO limits on the…

Anyone can help discover new stuff in Galaxy Zoo- but why do people bother in the first place? In the podcast "Why Go to the Zoo?", Jordan Raddick responds with some unexpected insight into why…

EBOLA - CLINICAL SYMPTOMS:  Ebola was discovered in 1976 in Zaire and Sudan.  The virus called Ebola takes its name from the Ebola River, which flows into Zaire, where the virus was…

To make the bio-diesel from Calotropis Procera. I have searched a lot on internet and journals on this plant. I want to know that this plant is better than the Jatropha for this purpose. I wnat your…

Paleontologists have discovered a new raptor species in Inner Mongolia.  The exceptionally well preserved dinosaur, named Linheraptor exquisitus, is the first near complete skeleton of its kind…

Despite several social psychological theories that suggest otherwise, failing to meet educational goals does not result in depression, say sociologists from Floria and Kansas State Universities.…

If the idea was ever in doubt, psychologists writing in Social Psychological and Personality Science say they have confirmed that pretty girls make boys do dumb things. Specifically, they say the…

Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in whichstrangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness and respect even though there is often an individual cost involved. Evolutionary…

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego are undertaking an expedition to explore the rupture site of the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake. The team hopes to capitalize on a unique…

A Penn State physicist is looking at how songbirds transmit impulses through nerve cells in the brain to produce a complex behavior, such as singing. The research will help scientists gain insight…

NASA IceBridge Mission Prepares for Study of Arctic Glaciers In a world where the blogosphere is filled with politically motivated versions of what is 'really' happening to the cryosphere it is good…

Baird : The Wonder Of Television The following article was scanned by me from "The Wonder Encyclopedia For Children"Odhams, 1933. Apart from minor adjustments to layout and removal of page references…

Earlier this week Zimmer asked readers to help out science journalists and participate in a survey about where we get our science news. He's got the results up. You can go see for yourself what…