On Friday evening I will be talking in the wonderful Piazza Mantegna, in downtown Mantova (see picture below). It is an event organized by Festivaletteratura (literature festival), where I will be…

Hurricane Isaac may have disappointed the news networks and the federal government - it was declared a state-of-emergency before the first rain drop fell and Sean Penn was not roaming the streets of…

Soil bacteria and bacteria that cause human diseases have recently swapped at least seven antibiotic-resistance genes, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.…

It used to be that a species name was only official if it was printed in a journal - and the print was quite literal, it had to be a print journal. Why do zoologists hate trees?  They don't any…

I've been feeling a bit inspired about our prospects in space, lately.  Foremost (of course) by the incredible competence displayed by the makers of the Curiosity probe that landed on Mars, last…

There is a Chinese middle class for the first time ever and they have decided to avoid their numerous conventional food scares by opting for organic food scares. To-date, it is has been entirely…

During London Olympics 2012, Google Knowledge Graph (Ref. 1)  proved to be very useful in knowing about various aspects of the games like player statistics, medal tally of countries, etc.…

The physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in 1984: “...the most revolutionary discovery in science is yet to come! And come, not by questioning the quantum, but by uncovering that utterly simple…

“Ears are a particularly appealing approach to noncontact biometrics because they are relatively constant over a person’s life and are unaffected by expressions, unlike faces.” - explain researchers…

There was an interesting study published recently that addresses the changes that occur to gut bacteria in pregnant women and the role this fulfills in maintaining a healthy pregnancy. There are two…