50 million years ago the Indian sub-continent collided with the enormous Eurasian continent with a velocity of about 20 cm/year. With such a high velocity India was the fastest of the former parts of…

Stretching has many beneficial qualities but if you are doing it to prevent later muscle soreness, it probably isn't working, a team of Cochrane Researchers has found. Many people stretch before…

By peering deep into evolutionary history, scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered the origins of photosensitivity in animals. The scientists studied the aquatic…

  Congratulations to Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.  Congratulations to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for sharing in that prize. There could be no…

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 9: The Postdoc Has Two Faces Micella Phoenix DeWhyse United States 28 September 2007 "Although I am a huge fan of the Internets (thank you, Senator Stevens),…

Mastering Your PhD Getting the Most Out of Progress Reviews Bart Noordam, Patricia Gosling Netherlands 28 September 2007 Value these moments of interaction with your supervisor. … If you are well-…

Women with menstrual cramps are often offered either non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or oral contraceptives. Some women find that this treatment does not work or they can not take the drugs or…

Any movie buff knows that garlic spooks vampires and thus keeps you from losing blood. Less well known is that eating garlic may keep your blood pressure at safe levels also. A new study from the…

Nearly one in three of the 400 largest public companies headquartered in California – including household names Apple, Callaway Golf and Skechers USA – have no women at the top, according to a study…

Observations of I Zwicky 18 at the Palomar Observatory around 40 years ago seemed to show that it was one of the youngest galaxies in the nearby Universe. The studies suggested that the galaxy had…