Empathy erosion is a logical response. You know it is. Or you wouldn't be able to eat meat. If you turn the dial up all the way on empathy, you end up like that strange offshoot of Hinduism, walking…

Astronomers tend to suffer from gigantomania; we relate to and prefer astronomical dimensions. Always. I, being not only an astronomer but also a sucker for celebrations, will not miss this…

Here's a question. In many millions of years time, is it possible that future geologists - be they our distant descendants, or an alien race that has since conquered Earth - will be able to look at…

ZURICH, July 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The APPP is an international movement wanting to lift the PowerPoint issue to the awareness of the world-population. The APPP sees itself as the advocate of…

The DZERO collaboration has just produced an update of their analysis of the dimuon charge asymmetry using 9.0 inverse femtobarns of proton-antiproton collisions. The new result confirms the…

"To her who appears in the skyto her who appears in the skyI want to address my greetingto the hierodule who appears in the skyI want to address my greetingto the great queen of heaven, Inanna […

Studying science quantitavely has often taken the form of studying publications, such as citation counts, or identifying author networks. But now, Samuel Arbesman and Nicholas Christakis (2011) argue…

"I envy University Professors. They are paid to question people who know nothing but try very hard to say something, while I have to question people who know everything but do their utmost to say…

Way back in 1982 in USA  I had a chance to discuss with the old botanist Laetsch  who published scholarly research paper detailing structure of chloroplasts in C4 plant using electron…

Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development. Ashwani Kumar The continued use of fossil fuels willrequire a significant amount of carbon dioxide to be removed by either…