One can see its autumn season now and leaves are falling in tropical climate.  The  fallen leaves contain almost 40 percent carbon which has been absorbed from the atmosphere. Thus plants…

DUBAI, UAE, April 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As GCC countries approach their stiflingly hot summer months, the matter of cooling people, places and businesses will be at the forefront of everybody's…

Some days I wonder if we were set up from the get-go to expect less, to hope for less, to dream of less. My son's prognosis was grim and bitter to the heart when he was a tender five. And yet…

I have recently dusted off an algorithm I had invented eight years ago, one I dubbed "Hyperball algorithm". It might come handy for predicting the b-tagging rate in CMS events with jets, for an…

Google Europe managed to generate $7 billion in profits yet paid tax on only $50+ million.  How is that possible?   They're headquartered in Ireland to take advantage of its low 12.5% tax…

Nares Ice Bridge Breakup The ice bridge in Nares Strait at the Kane Basin outlet to Baffin Bay has begun to break up. There was a plug of consolidated ice solidly wedged across the channel. …

“Auntie”, better known as the BBC, has just treated us to a two-parter, Everything and Nothing, by Jim Al-Khalili.  He thoroughly knows his history of science, rather than…

Why should technology not go on and accelerate like it has before? Why should humanoids not get ever brighter; why should democracy not grow until true communism emerges? Techno-progressives emanate…

BERLIN, April 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Thalidomide has shown potential to be used as the first adjuvant therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to data presented at the International…

More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. The number one in employer in Silicon Valley, the home of high technology for…