Sub-Saharan Africa has problems.  A cow in France makes twice as much money as the average human in Sub-Saharan Africa and the region is beset by problems that stem from post-colonial corruption…

Researchers have found a new genetic mutation responsible for deafness and hearing loss associated with Usher syndrome type 1. Usher syndrome is a genetic defect that causes deafness, night-blindness…

A global projection of the potential reduction in the maximum size of fish in a warmer and less-oxygenated ocean says that changes in ocean and climate systems could lead to smaller fish, according…

In the mid-1980s something odd occurred in Scandinavia that would be mirrored throughout the western world. Pediatricians in Sweden started reporting an increase in babies and toddlers with celiac…

The classic chicken and egg puzzle asks what came first, the chicken or the egg? We can also ask that about diets.  A so-called Western diet, though it now seems to be worldwide, has high-…

Researchers have determined that summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800 years, including during medieval times when parts of the…

As my twenty three affectionate readers will probably remember, I enjoyed a very pleasant week in Kolymbari (Crete) last June, attending the first International Conference of Frontier Physics. Now,…

I had one of a kind experience when I went to a very beautiful  beach in south Andaman. The whole beach was populated with the sand crabs, Ocipode quadrata, the ghost crab, Dotilla…

I had one of a kind experience when I went to a very beautiful  beach in south Andaman. The whole beach was populated with the sand crabs, Ocipode quadrata, the ghost crab, Dotilla myctiroides…

The human brain is made up of billions of neurons, specialized cells which form vast, intricate networks among themselves to process and sort through the barrage of sensory and internal stimuli we…