On the occasion of her centennial, Rita Levi-Montalcini addressed the crowd with the gentle tone of a grandmother and the confident cadence of a statesman.  At 100 years, she has an energy that…

Nobody wants to have a stuffy, runny nose and itchy eyes year-round, or to not be able to breathe deeply. (Or maybe there are some that do. Whatever floats your boat.) The current magical mystery…

Back on a frozen pre-Inaugeration Day, I picked up a hitchhiker on US295N. We exchanged the usual banter ("Got any guns? No? Great!").  He wasn't a local, just in town to help assemble…

MP3s, podcasts, etc. are not really our thing - most of our readers want data they can use and you can't forward a clip from an MP3 or copy and paste it conveniently ( "go to minute 18 for my…

“We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.”  One Year has passed. On April 13, 2008, John Archibald Wheeler, the doyen of…

COLUMBIA, Maryland, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - The results of the largest study performed to date will be presented during the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting…

CHENNAI, India, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - Revenues Grow 3% Over the Previous Year; Net Loss at $16.85 Million Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq National Markets: SIFY), a leader in Enterprise and…

The Hubble Telescope was carried into orbit on this day, April 24th, back in 1990, which makes it 19 years old. Now it can finally legally drink alcohol in Ontario! The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)…

MCKINNEY, Texas, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - Webcast Alert: 2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders TORCHMARK CORPORATION (NYSE: TMK) announces the following Webcast: What: 2009 Annual Meeting of…

I was out tonight visiting with my friends Lucky and Saskia. Lucky is a passionate flamenco enthusiast and theoretical physicist. We were enjoying an evening of live music and talking about advances…