In Scotland, traditional New Year greeting is Lang may yer lum reek meaning “long may your chimney smoke”.  So may you never be short of fuel for your fire. So, if I understand this article…

One-third of science is not published in the common language of science, English, and that prevents uptake of the results and citations for the researchers, according to a new analysis. Language…

Today I am actually quite proud of my research institute, the "Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, INFN, which leads Italian research in fundamental physics. In fact a selection to hire 73 new…

If Humans Touch Mars Will It Be Another Tale Of Human Missteps Like Lascaux? Copyright © Robert Walker (UK). All rights reserved. Cover picture shows First published on December 2016. You can…

Vera Rubin who helped to discover one of the greatest mysteries of nature has died.    She was the mother of astronomical dark matter investigation.  I won't write about her…

During the past few months I have been giving seminars and colloquia in several institutes around Europe and the US. The topic was more or less always the same, i.e. the discovery criterion used in…

Unlike Alex Durig, who has given us 5 Predictions for 2017, I will not attempt to make any.  Rather I will try to enjoy what remains of the 12 days of Christmas (the last one being the 5th of…

Everyone has heard of the hangover, it is that sluggish feeling after drinking too much alcohol- A group of psychologists now contend that emotional experiences can induce physiological and internal…

If you are sick and need to be readmitted to the hospital after already spending time there, your chances of being allowed back in have dropped since the weight of federal law has imposed penalties…

#1. The Democrat Party Will Become the Party of Angry Black People When Obama came along, he brought with him a new ideology: the Democrat Party would now be the party of Black people who are unhappy…