http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1002/1002.3425v1.pdf   We should depart from notion of a continuously existing electron and consider an elementary particle an ensemble of events connected…

The eruption of the Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull volcano that sent a huge plume of ash into the atmosphere is unlikely to have a global impact and will probably dissipate in the next several days,…

The next generation of doctors and other health professionals does not like fat people. In fact, they like fat people even less than the rest of the population, according to a study published in…

A new British Medical Journal editorial claims that banning trans fats would protect the public and save lives by preventing thousands of heart attacks and deaths every year. The policy…

Electronic readers allow children to interact with texts in ways they don't interact with the printed word, encouraging them to read, according to Kansas State University professor of Education Lotta…

The world's water cycle has already intensified and the changes are consistent with predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to  new research in the Journal…

On Easter Sunday, April 15th in 1990, I was visiting a church near my home in Penn Hills, PA.  A lady in Sunday School asked the pastor “How can I teach my teen-aged children about Adam&Eve…

I read with interest and excitement a very lightweight preprint on the Cornell preprint arxiv this afternoon. Although I usually skip reading papers on subjects I know little about (Cosmology), the…

Synchrotron Radiation Synchrotron radiation is a kind of electromagnetic radiation caused by the high energy particles (with a velocity close to the speed of light). Radiation is very common in…

Thank goodness Bruce Willis is around, or the Midwest would have been a smoking crater this morning! Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic…

Volcano in Iceland Grounds UK Flights Edit: for latest updates please see comments, below. A volcanic ash cloud in UK airspace has left tens of thousands of travellers returning from Easter holidays…

UEA CRU Scientists Cleared Of Malpractice Allegations An independent panel of scientists has cleared scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit of the malpractice allegations…

Simon Singh Wins Legal Battle Good news for lovers of freedom of speech across the planet. The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) this morning dropped its libel claim against Dr Singh. Thanks to…

I’ve often written about technology that will help us do everyday things, and I almost always advocate technology that helps, while leaving the choices with us, the control in our hands. Mostly, I…

This is just to mention that I have been blogging for this site for exactly one year. During the last twelve months here I have observed a few changes from the old blog which I ran at wordpress.…

Have a look at the figure on the left. It shows the number of visits to this site broken down in hours of the day -the time of the server used by the visitor. The statistics of each bar is sufficient…

Life and health insurance companies are greedy, for-profit enterprises that do not care about public health, according to Harvard researchers writing in the American Journal of Public Health. Why…

Legislation introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) would require federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide…

Scientists cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a new article in Science. While we may have been spared some of the…

Through the study of a popular Martian meteorite's age, University of Houston researchers have uncovered important details about the history of volcanic activity on Mars. ALH84001 is a thoroughly…