A few years ago, Nissan was the leader in electric cars. Now they may go bankrupt due to the electric car business.  Some of it is that other companies are just smarter. An American company that…

A few years ago, Nissan was the leader in electric cars. Now they may go bankrupt due to the electric car business.  Some of it is that other companies are just smarter. An American company that…

"I feel your pain" is a common empathy cliché but we know the opposite is true in some, and it changes how they interact with the world.  After Dutch film director Theo van Gogh put out "…

Vaping in kids had its day. While useful before and since for smoking cessation and harm reduction in cigarette smokers, vaping only became a fad in teens when, as predicted, social authoritarians in…

The 'natural' movement is not evidence-based but the beliefs of progressives that modern science is killing us and ancient ways are more nutritious usually aren't harmful. Your risk of E. coli and…

The 'natural' movement is not evidence-based but the beliefs of progressives that modern science is killing us and ancient ways are more nutritious usually aren't harmful. Your risk of E. coli and…

If you read Twitter, and probably Bluesky, if anyone reads that, Republicans are in a War On Science and the proof is (1) being Republican and (2) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former darling of Democrats…

If you read Twitter, and probably Bluesky, if anyone reads that, Republicans are in a War On Science and the proof is (1) being Republican and (2) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former darling of Democrats…

Electric cars and solar and wind energy alternative schemes have a few crippling limitations; low energy densities and unavailability when people need energy most. Batteries could help with that…

Since being discovered in 1993, microRNAs have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, thanks to private sector uptake with the COVID-19 vaccines that saved the world during the…

“This is a new and emerging epidemic, and we must increase awareness of this disease process so we can avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment for our patients,” says University of California in Los…

At the IV Workshop in Valencia a student from my group, Emanuele Coradin, presented the results of a novel algorithm for the identification of charged particles in a silicon tracker. The novelty is…

Their Infiniti car couldn't ruin Nissan, but a climate where government mandates and subsidizes electric cars, which means deviating down to the revenue and running lean, are going to put them out of…

Their Infiniti car couldn't ruin Nissan, but a climate where government mandates and subsidizes electric cars, which means deviating down to the revenue and running lean, are going to put them out of…

Cannabis and THC, its main psychoactive compound, have been endorsed by people suffering from anxiety, sleep problems, epilepsy, and cancer pain. What is missing from such claims is a plausible…

Europeans who emigrated to the colonies in America had a dream of religious freedom, denied to them by European elites and government-mandated beliefs, and legal equality, absolutely impossible in…

Europeans who emigrated to the colonies in America had a dream of religious freedom, denied to them by European elites and government-mandated beliefs, and legal equality, absolutely impossible in…

The recent video, "How LISA Will Listen to the Symphony of the Universe," provides a compelling insight into the future of gravitational wave astronomy—a field poised to fundamentally reshape our…

Quality by Design (QbD) is  a decade-long approach that was first introduced by quality expert Joseph M. Juran. Juran proposed a “Juran Trilogy”, of which quality and innovation were two of the…

Last week I got to the part of my course in Subnuclear Physics for Statisticians (yes, there is such a course at the Department of Statistical Sciences in Padova, and I have been giving it since its…