Simulating the brain with traditional chips would require impractical megawatts of power. One scientist has an alternative. According to Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University,…

Not since RoboCop has being a cyborg seemed so very cool. University of Chicago geoscientists are developing an artificial intelligence system that future Mars explorers could incorporate into…

Interesting article in Tuesday’s New York Times. Apparently, the Iraqi security forces have taken to using divining rods to search for explosives, against the advice of U.S. trainers and advisors.…

Love and Being in Love: Love is in our mind and is fueled by chemicals and chemistry.New love produces the chemistry in love we all seek. Throughout history, mankind has deemed the heart the center…

A Rotational and Translational motion is standalone natural phenomenon For this experiment, two identically thin cylinders which are initially static to the observer are taken. These cylinders are…

A Rotation with Translation Movement is standalone natural phenomenon For this experiment, two identically thin cylinders which are initially static to the observer are taken. These cylinders…

1571 was also interesting. Galileo Galilei was then seven years old. Johannes Kepler was born on December 27. There were two solar eclipses, a total on January 25 and an annular on July 21-22.…

“Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources, many based on their use in traditional medicine…

I live in an academic bubble into which very little pop culture penetrates. I guess a few years ago there was a movie called The Squid and the Whale? I have just learned of its existence.…

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA ABSTRACT The state of Rajasthan is situated…

Climbers and twinners: Cocculus pendulus (Forst.) Diels.; Celastrus paniculata Willd.; Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers.; Blastania fimbristipula (Fensl.) Kotschy et Peyr.; Citrullus colocynthis…

In an earlier article titled What is Life?, I took the reader through a reasoning process to finally arrive at the conclusion that, contrary to general expectation, finding a definition of life is…

I don't know what it says about me that I love this stuff. Probably nothing good. Perhaps Weird Al Yankovic could do a rendition of CCR's Fortunate Son. Some folks are born to test emission…

A friend, John Kovalic, once quipped "I now have more social networks than I have friends."  So for today, a trio of social media webtoons.  The first is Cat and Girl, the other two are…

David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought…

United Nations is playing key role in planning and development of bio-energy programmes at the global level. FAO’s bioenergy programme bases its operations on the following concepts: a) bioenergy…

    In a column posted a few days ago (November 1) I mentioned that my friend John Evans, a Cambridge (England) mathematician, has developed a general formula for estimating biocomplexity.…

Will the $ 1,000,000 Randi Challenge Prize soon be awarded? The prize, administered by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), is offered to anyone who can prove in scientifically controlled…

Will the $ 1,000,000 Randi Challenge Prize[http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html] soon beawarded? The prize, administered by the James RandiEducational Foundation (JREF), is offered…

Did someone mention Elvis? This research made the cover of ACS's Journal of Physical Chemistry in color.    The diatomic cyanide ion CN− is released sometimes by the chemical compounds…