Today, for the first time in 18 years of association to the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), I leave for a trip abroad, to the CERN laboratories, on my own wallet. The situation…

Some of the  earliest  plants which evolved to bear seeds   Gymnosperms ( like cycads) did not have their ovules covered in the ovary.  They called it naked ovules…

Polar science will continue to have a global impact, whether you believe in man-made climate change or not, says an expert. Global warming was always an unfortunate use of 'framing' by policy-…

Galaxy M51, now called the Whirlpool Galaxy, was discovered by Charles Messier in 1773 but its spiral structure was first found by William Parsons in 1845, using his huge (and wonderfully named)…

Each day the humans are confronted with a variety of pathogens. Most of them are fended off by our immune system.  For a successful infection, bacteria must deliver so-called virulence factors…

Today kicked off the 2010 H+ Summit, "The Rise of the Citizen Scientist". You can watch the livestream here. I'll blog about it tomorrow, after I get some sleep! No one wants to read what I have to…

I think that there is an innate (somewhat mindblind) tendency to assume that other people think, feel, react the same way we do. Americans are often egocentric. We think that our way is the best way…

It takes me a long time to write an article, and I’ve started working on one.  Too much in one day, though, and I find that Cerebrum meum est fatiga-tum.So for the meantime I will show you…

Can't make it to the H+ Summit because you're in South Africa for the World Cup?   The folks at the H+ "Rise of the Citizen-Scientist" summit have it covered. Take Scientific Blogging Featured…

BP, GIS and The Mysterious Vanishing Open Letter Subject: BP control of GIS data Regarding the loss of an open letter from the web, from whatever cause. [EDIT]June 15 2010 - 00:23 BST. Important…