Soon Essentials of the unification theory (I now a very little English) Objectives of the theory There is…

Malnutrition higher in children born to child brides - Infants born to child brides in India (married before the age of 18) have a higher risk of malnutrition than children born to older mothers,…

As expected, this last round of information that corrected an error regarding the demise of the Himalayan Glaciers is now being touted as the latest evidence of the lies surrounding global warming.…

At the start of every work day, I browse a short list of online resources to get a fresh sample of the happenings and themes active around my universe (meaning my particular, teeny-tiny subset of the…

I have no energy today to put together a detailed discussion of a brand new, exciting search for supersymmetric Higgs boson performed in data collected by the CDF experiment at the Tevatron proton…

At the start of every work day, I browse a short list of online resources to get a fresh sample of the happenings and themes of my universe (a teeny-tiny subset of the Universe) to get a new "gist"…

I enjoyed presenting on Project Calliope two weeks ago, at the 215th AAS meeting.  I have a partial podcast of my talk in preparation, but in the meantime, here are the visual slides from my…

I'm up in Ann Arbor, doing a little mathematical modeling of gene regulation here at the U. of Michigan. On my way to find some Chinese food, I stumbled upon an amazing book store called Dawn Treader…

Let us take an Observer (Ob), who, for simplicity’s sake, goes through four events, in his mind, within the Time Frame (tf) of 0-20 seconds. Let us say that the four events that our Observer (Ob)…

Himalayan Hype : Reading Between The Lines A recent IPCC news release admitting a small instance of bad science has triggered a flurry of news stories and blog articles based on worse science. …

Production of recombinant proteins in plants for pharmaceutical use   Preťová Anna, Klubicová Katarína, Obert Bohuš   Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Slovak Academy of…

2009 was tied for the second warmest year on record, and in the Southern Hemisphere, last year was the warmest on record, according to a new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists…

How does an outfielder get to the right place at the right time to catch a fly ball? According to a recent article in the Journal of Vision, the "outfielder problem" represents the definitive…

Epidemiological studies indicate that obesity comes with an increased risk of developing cancer, and especially certain types such as liver cancer. Now, a group of researchers reporting in Cell say…

Viruses are thought to spread by entering a cell, replicating, and then moving on to infect new cells. But a new study published in Science reveals that some viruses spread much faster than…

The presumption that children need both a mother and a father may be readily accepted by many people today, but there is little evidence to support the idea, say sociologists from USC and NYU. In a…

What does it take to stop a deadly bioterrorism attack? A strong military? Secured borders? Good Political leaders? If you chose any of the above, you're wrong. The answer is actually llamas--or…

The natural climate archives recorded in a stalagmite from a limestone cave in southern Arizona link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new…

As people age, they gradually lose their ability to filter out irrelevant information. But that may actually give aging adults a memory advantage over their younger counterparts, according to a new…

Some animal-pollinated plants face an interesting dilemma. The same animals they rely on for pollination also like to eat them. This is the case for Nicotiana attenuata, a wild tobacco plant that…