Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different…

"We hear a lot about bioterrorism and pandemics," says Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science and pediatrics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"but the fact of the…

A million dollars is difficult to imagine but if someone is charging $2 instead of one, that gets attention.   Likewise, a quote attributed to communist USSR despot Joesph Stalin is "A…

Tuberculosis (TB)  is a contagious disease of the lungs and other organs caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or M. tuberculosis) and which infects roughly a third of the world's population.…

Sean Carroll writes that in GR “spacetime can give energy to matter, or absorb it from matter, so that the total energy simply isn’t conserved”. He hopefully means “space” not “space-time”, because…

I had a chance to pass on the road in front of hospital in West recently. I never had a chance to enter hospital from inside there. I remembered the poem of Ernest Hemmingway “East is East and West…

Google Instant is basically a way to show you results as you type, sort of like your browser's ability to complete a URL as you type it in.  Estimate: 2-5 seconds saved per Google Instant search…

The LA Times shows our Science 2.0 There's Science To Dancing Also article some love. A study was done at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom identifying the dance moves that attract women…

BEACHWOOD, Ohio, September 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Aleris International, Inc. announced today that Christopher M. Crane, 51, has been elected to its Board of Directors and to the Board of Directors…

Some Facebook tips from CNN guest columnists Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich, Ehrlich being editor at Mashable.com and Bartz editor at PsychologyToday.com: Facebook gets a lot of attention for being…