The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias - The Solution Last Monday I posed a simple math puzzle: A set of 10 encyclopedias is sitting on a bookshelf in left-to-right numerical order. Each single volume…

Scientists at VIB, the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the…

BERLIN, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, Biosense Webster to Showcase CARTO(R) 3 System at Eurospace issued on 22 Jun 2009 09:31 GMT, by Biosense Webster, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are…

DNA is like your phone line. As Northwestern University biophysicist Johnathan Widom put it in a talk recently, DNA simultaneously encodes multiple overlapping signals, just like your phone line that…

PrologueSome of you might remember the ripples caused in the blogosphere by the two-standard-deviation excess found by the CDF collaboration in their data in January 2007, while searching for a Higgs…

If you happen to be in the San Francisco metropolitan area the week of August 16th, 2009 and can't get enough science, I'll be emcee'ing a symposium on communicating science to the public at the 90th…

A Ph.D. thesis at the University of the Basque Country has analyzed the role played by a number of emotional variables, such as the way in which negative emotions are controlled or attitudes to…

The first U.S. charter school opened in 1992. Since then the number of charters has grown to more than 4,000 in 40 states, serving 1.2 million students, according to RAND, a nonprofit research…

DALLAS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Conselium, a leading executive search firm with a specialty in ethics and compliance, today introduced Corporate Compliance Insights (CCI), a global online forum and…

LONDON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Health's Specialist Advisor for Autism, Elaine Hill, has publicly urged practitioners, service users, their families and the general public to…