It isn't often that the government gets it right and the energy/climate change policies being jammed through Congress while there is no way to block them could be with us for a long time.  So…

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. Is the flag left behind from Apollo 11 still standing?   In a three-day period  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (…

Unless the writing is completely legible and usually modern, even advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems give rise to transcription problems and provide results with many errors that…

Today's tale looks at whether ancient Sufi mystics predicted the current climate for science in the Western World.  Some see science as an ivory tower pursuit, others as a way of achieving…

A low-cost generator could be a boon for people in the world’s poorest countries.   The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham, is developing a biomass-burning cooking stove which…

In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species',  despite consistent patterns of biodiversity identified over space, time, organism type and geographical region,…

Yesterday I posted a short article whose main purpose was to show a figure I had received from Sven Heinemeyer, a phenomenologist who specializes in the study of Minimal Supersymmetric extensions of…

Science is occasionally a life-threatening career choice, particularly for those scientists who risk shipwreck, starvation, disease, and large, arctic carnivores to unlock the mysteries of the life's…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 17 -- The Chilean telecommunications market will grow at a CAGR of 6.6 percent over the next five years for a total of US$6.4 billion in 2014, mainly due to the…

NEW YORK, July 17 -- - Huge turnout for Light Reading’s Packet-Optical Transport Evolution Virtual Tradeshow with the industry’s leading optical experts, nearly 900 attendees, and 10 sponsors…