Drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages may lower blood pressure, according to research published in Circulation.The study potentially has important public health implications, because even small…

  Just a little insight on the final project I'm working on to complete this term. The class is called: Big Ideas in Science:From Methods to Mutation "Applying Scientific Methodology in Everyday…

HONG KONG, May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL) today jointly announced that the proposal to privatise HTIL was…

Martin Gardner died yesterday. His memory will live on through some 70+ books and, above all, through his column "MATHEMATICAL GAMES" in Scientific American. During the 25 years that Gardner's column…

Since I have started to write on this site, 13 months ago, I have realized that few of the contributors here discuss their private life and thoughts. But I was used to do it in my old site and so I…

A previously unknown function that regulates how stem cells produce different types of cells in different parts of the nervous system has been discovered.  The results improve our understanding…

A group of bioelectronics researchers say they have made a major step toward being able to regulate nerve cells externally.  Their breakthrough is based on an ion transistor of plastic that can…

"जयपुर। लगातार बढ रहे तापमान से प्रदेश भट्टी की तरह तपने लगा है। शनिवार इस मौसम का सबसे गर्म दिन रहा। कई स्थानों पर प्रचण्ड लू के हालात रहे। उत्तर-पश्चिमी राजस्थान में अघिकांश स्थानों पर तापमान 47…

 “Around 5.45 am, the captain announced that the plane would be landing in 20 minutes, and he advised passengers to put on their seatbelts. The plane landed at high speed. It jerked severely…

In the final chapter of the book Complexity: A Guided Tour, Mitchell gets to the heart of the real issues that I've been griping about in this blog. She begins by citing a harsh, 1995 piece by John…