Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the mostlethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack onthe disease, scientists from The University of Texas M. D.…

One of the things that I've learned during my scientific training is how to find the background information that I need to understand a new scientific subject, and how to identify the unresolved…

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, January 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Thomson Reuters Foundation puts in place first-of-its-kind Emergency Information Service ('EIS') in Haiti - The EIS is exclusively operating for…

The success of today's particle physics experiments relies to a surprisingly large extent on a seldom told functionality of the giant apparata that detect the faint echoes of subatomic particles…

LONDON and DUBLIN, January 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft has signed a global business process outsourcing partnership with arvato AG, one of the world's largest internationally networked media and…

While marking old science books as keepers or giveaways, I paused to browse through an old favorite and modern classic published in 1979, the famous "physics for philosophers" book, "The Dancing Wu…

Based on the considerable developments in biotechnology, plant breeders developed more efficient selection systems to replace traditional phenotypic-pedigree-based selection systems. Conventional…

This essay is continued from "Shame Theory" Part I which is available here.     Now let's return to our opening ideas, “The Message.” and “The Phenomenon.” How is it that, in…

    “Humans should be ashamed of themselves.” This will be a predominant message of 2010. I know this is an accurate prediction because I'm one of the people who is going to be…

As described in my profile, I don't want to blog about my own field of research. However, in anticipation of questions about my research, I'm going to write this introductory post. So far, all my…