Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: A study in fortitude and rigor

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It's Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's birthday today. "Chandra", as he was fondly known to friends and colleagues, was one o...
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Psychiatry and neuroscience: Don't sacrifice proven emergence at the altar of unproven reductionism

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John Markowitz who is a clinical psychiatrist at the NIH has a cogent column in the New York Times in which he argues that an excessive f...

Black clouds and silver linings: 2016 chemistry Nobel Laureate Fraser Stoddart's moving tribute to his wife

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Sir Fraser Stoddart shared this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for constructing tiny molecular machines based on the remarkable pheno...

Iconic images of science, #1: Rosalind Franklin's DNA photograph

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It occurred to me that a reasonable history of modern science could potentially be depicted by some of the iconic images that charted and ...
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Big Trouble in Little Synthetic Organic Chemistry?

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Michael Rafferty who teaches in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Kansas has a thought-provoking article in the ...
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Physics and the search for fundamental laws: Is physics turning into biology?

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The Standard Model of particle physics contains many fundamental values which may be a result of pure accident Physics, unlike biolog...
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2016 Nobel Prize picks

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The nice thing about Nobel Prizes is that it gets easier to predict them every year, simply because most of the people you nominate don...
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