Junk food will make your waistline bigger, which is bad for you, and candy is no exception.   But candy that makes your intelligence bigger?   Garth Sundem's Brain Candy is here to satisfy…

Cell membrane composed of lipids is impermeable to glucose which is a polar compound. Transport of glucose across the cell membrane requires a carrier protein located in cell membrane. In plant…

The Minneapolis city attorney's office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000, which settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days…

The Minneapolis city attorney's office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000, which settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days…

My esteemed colleague Nathaniel Borenstein recently had an article published in TechNewsWorld, “Is the IT Pendulum Winding Down?” Are we finally nearing a time when IT’s constant swing between…

If only you could visit the new Barcelona airport and see the shops you will hardly notice any signs of recession. I was much impressed by the designs of ladies purses displayed in window which had…

What do you get when you combine gravity, Bernoulli's principle, and a social media giant? An easy-to-understand explanation of how planes fly, courtesy of Facebook users. And you were worried about…

Many people today either are too young to have ever seen some early pc’s or have forgotten what they looked like and how much they cost. Today we complain about the cost of a laptop running 2Ghz with…

Many people today either are too young to have ever seen some early pc’s or have forgotten what they looked like and how much they cost. Today we complain about the cost of a laptop running 2Ghz with…

Bacteria perhaps have smallest chromosomes in organized fashion though they lack nuclear membrane. Their chromosomes were the first to be synthesized artificially. Artificially constructed chromosome…

"We're building a rocket.  We're building it bigger" -  Copenhagen Suborbital."We've got the biggest balls of them all" - AC/DC I'll steal UniverseToday's summary, then tell you to skip…

Nature has well knit system of biodiversity. Microbes that thrive on dead organic matter and decompose it to its elements are a sort of sanitary inspectors of nature. Dead animals, plants, organic…

Is cosmic inflation faster than the speed of light? Cosmic inflation already works if the universe's volume doubles a mere 260 times. Every doubling takes 109 fundamental time steps tPlanck. If we…

Perhaps the botanists are too week to put their case forward as no interest groups support their voice while environmentalist are supported by different lobbies. The voice of botanists are not heard…

I am not a believer of any faith, and the most common prayer you can hear from my voice is "pass the salt". However, I claim I have the right to have my own opinion on what is worth praying for.…

Randall Stephens of The Historical Society writes  "As the semester revs up, quite a few history profs are looking on-line for primary source docs, web-based activities, digital images,…

Randall Stephens of The Historical Society writes  "As the semester revs up, quite a few history profs are looking on-line for primary source docs, web-based activities, digital images,…

Randall Stephens of The Historical Society writes  "As the semester revs up, quite a few history profs are looking on-line for primary source docs, web-based activities, digital images,…

Randall Stephens of The Historical Society writes  "As the semester revs up, quite a few history profs are looking on-line for primary source docs, web-based activities, digital images,…

I know the bulk of the contributors, and maybe even the readers, are progressives, but big government progress has never accomplished much good over the long term - and going after bloggers making…