Interesting reading and news items. These items are also bookmarked at my Diigo account. How epigenetics is changing our fight with disease Sequencing the human genome was supposed to answer our questions about the genetic origins of disease but the...

Interesting reading and news items. These items are also bookmarked at my Diigo account. Fuelling fears There is an awesome amount of energy tied up in an atom of uranium. Because of that, projections of the price of nuclear power tend to focus on...

Interesting reading and news items. These items are also bookmarked at my Diigo account. In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number Countless psychological experiments have shown that, on average, the longest sequence a normal person can recall on the fly...

Opening up a Colourful Cosmic Jewel Box (10/29/09) The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal , the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble...

Cancer isn't a single disease, and there are many possible things that can "cause" even a single type of cancer. However, a lot of things basically work in the same general way to promote cancer. One way that's been long suspected though poorly...