Glacier Sticks Out Tongue - Scientists Say Aaaah! Ice tongues are a fascinating area of study.They have much to teach us about the life cycles of glaciers. Many, many years ago, a glacier stuck out…

I have recently watched Jill Bolte Taylor's interview at TED. Taylor is a neoroanatomist who specializes in the post-mortem examination of the human brain. In 1996 she experienced a stroke and was…

The CDF collaboration has recently released new results from a search for what is probably the clearest signature of Higgs boson decay: pairs of high-mass photon candidates. I am very glad to see…

“Is religion a science?” This may seem an odd question with which to start, but this is the very first question Aquinas asks in his monumental Summa Theologica. “Among the philosophical sciences one…

New Scientist tells us that some of my former IBM Research colleagues have been busy looking at ways to give bloggers inspiration: Want to get more people to read your blog? A software tool that…

A New Scientist article, Born believers: how your brain creates God, takes us through some recent research with children that suggests belief in supernatural beings is somehow hard-wired into the…

Let's Start Using Our (Si) Brains scientists have sequenced the human genome -- the blueprint for all of the proteins in biology -- but how can we understand what these proteins do and how they work…

Globally environmental changes are happening very fast. Drying up of Aral sea and Sambher lake is one example. Drying up water bodies are another concern globally. Although 3 fourth of the earth is…

CALGARY, Alberta, February 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by Trident Resources Corp. regarding the Trident bankruptcy. Trident Resources Corp., Trident Exploration…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc , the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted…