Ashay Dharwadkeris the founder and director of the Institute of Mathematics, Gurgaon, India. He is interested in fundamental research in mathematics, particularly in algebra, topology, graph theory…

Painted green by a flashlight, astronomer Dennis Mammana of California points out Mars to onlookers on Aug. 26, 2003, when Mars was particularly close to Earth. Photo credit: Thad V'Soske via NASA…

Just a note here because I figured it is not clear - I am on vacation these days and, while I continue to post at a regular frequency, I am much more erratic than usual with answering comments in the…

There is a researcher within us just waiting to be unleashed. Being good according to Webster's Universal Dictionary and Thesaurus (2005) means having the right and proper qualities.  If these…

While a thousand physicists gather in hot Paris and listen to talk after talk, I am confined in a small island of the Mediterranean, trying to relax and gather my ideas for the next few aggressive…

Here's how I roll: my wife loves three-dollar bagels from the Sunday farmers' market. And so she says, "let's get a loaf of bread, some flowers, and a flat of strawberries!" When we roll home with…

Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat Scaremongering A guest post by my friend Lai Ying at the Greenwich Institute of Toxicology. Global warming is a get-rich-quick scam invented by Al Gore when he…

Ever want to be interviewed by big time media?  I'll tell you the two secrets to getting your message out.  I'll be talking about the Project Calliope extreme DIY satellite project on NPR's…

Can't be at the San Diego Comic Con because your dog's Boba Fett costume is at the cleaners? Great news ... ScriptPhD is on the scene. It's just like being there, without having to stare at some guy…

Can't be at the San Diego Comic Con because your dog's Boba Fett costume is at the cleaners? Great news ... ScriptPhD is on the scene. It's just like being there, without having to stare at some guy…

The 1960s were a great decade - the 1960s that the '60s would become famous for (drugs, riots, protests) didn't really happen until the end and, as David Crosby replied when asked to disclose one…

The 1960s were a great decade - the 1960s that the '60s would become famous for (drugs, riots, protests) didn't really happen until the end and, as David Crosby replied when asked to disclose one…

Gamblers House, a blog dedicated to work on Chaco Canyon, goes into some common questions they get from visitors.  One thing that seems to surprise a lot of visitors is the fact that the…

Gamblers House, a blog dedicated to work on Chaco Canyon, goes into some common questions they get from visitors.  One thing that seems to surprise a lot of visitors is the fact that the…

The article we all wanted to write, but it isn't science and we feel guilty wasting the audience's time complaining about people they never run across but we see day ... after day ... after day ...…

The article we all wanted to write, but it isn't science and we feel guilty wasting the audience's time complaining about people they never run across but we see day ... after day ... after day ...…

Mark Suppes' Fusion Reactor In 2008, DPR discussed the emergence of an extreme case of amateur research [READ more] where a growing number of independent citizens (see the list) are developing…

The basal ganglia is a series of highly connected brain areas localised deep in the cerebral cortex that recently has attracted interest of neuroscientists when it was linked to learning, and…

The CMS collaboration at the LHC collider has just produced its very first results on the production of Upsilon particles, with 280 inverse nanobarns of proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV center-of…

Since I know you are all too cheap to pay for Newsday and this article is behind their pay firewall, I will sum it up for you - Darth Vader apparently missed his flight to San Diego for the Comic…