The Curious Wavefunction

I was not aware of this splendid 1977 issue of Aldrichimica Acta dedicated to RB. It has an insightful article by David Dolphin containing ...

The LHC begins crashing protons tomorrow. The following from Stephen Hawking captures it the most accurately: "It is a tribute to how f...

Stable is simply "able" with a "st" Wow. This is a first for me. Three of the heavyweights in theoretical and computatio...

The NYT has a piece today in which it describes the problems riddling Vytorin , a combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin , which is take...

The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity By James Lovelock Basic Books (2007) In this clarion call to arms, ...

A long time ago when I was a fledgling student studying college physics and chemistry, I ventured into the haunting, dark recesses of our li...

One of the most significant, interesting and yet poorly understood effect in chemistry and biology is the hydrophobic effect. An important m...

But I had to inevitably be away. I will reemerge very soon. Put it in the bank.

Or so the Blog Cuss-o-Meter says. Only 0.1% of pages on my blog have "cuss words", less than the average of 10%. I wonder how the...

While I was doing an unrelated search on the Nature website, I came across this intriguing debate about why body temperature is maintained a...