Obama is going to appoint a Nobel-prize winning physicist to be his Energy Secretary. I don't know anything about the physicist, Steven Chu (except that he's director of the Lawrence Berkely National…

Sometimes while doing science, one is struck by something in the same way that one is affected by beautiful art. Not that these are the most amazing images ever (they weren't meant to be artistic,…

Chocolate toffee came to America from England in the 1920s with Heath, Hammond, and Jane Royce who made the treat from an old family recipe for family and friends. When her time came, Jane took the…

How can we share 98% of our DNA with a chimpanzee and still be so different? One of the biggest biological surprises found in our genomes is that chimps, mice, and even flies don't differ very much…

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- BSG Resources Guinea (BSGR Guinea) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded Simandou Block 1 and Block 2. BSGR Guinea welcomes…

RISI today through its Wood Biomass Market Report, indicated that woodfiber will play a major role in any new green energy spending plans in the U.S. The Report stated that as of Dec. 12, estimates…

BARCELONA, Spain and DALLAS, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - More than just for CRM Applications, On-demand IT Service Platforms such as NTRsupport and NTRadmin Are Among Emerging Class of Solutions…

Obviously, scientificblogging.com is all about science writing (it's not just a clever name, as Wayne Campbell would say). Blogging, as Atlantic senior editor Andrew Sullivan said in the November…

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, December 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Demonstrates Vertica Analytic Database's enterprise-class scale and support of storage area networks Vertica is participating in the new EMC(R…

Many of the biggest breakthroughs in science come from unexpected directions. Many revolutions come from unknown almost unfunded scientist working in obscurity. How can politicians in Washington know…