Hal Harris

The Gates Foundation has spent over two billion dollars cumulatively and many other organizations and governments also spend millions of dollars each year to fight malaria, the disease that takes more human life than any other.

The beautiful photographs in this publication just make you itch to go into the lab and try to reproduce them.  The structures appear to be ideal for lawn ornaments - delicate, colorful and very attractive.  Furthermore, they can be made with easily available materials, just sodium metasilicate, barium chloride, a flat piece of metal-coated glass, and carb

While I was teaching Introductory Chemistry years ago, the World News reported that the pretty actress Gwyneth Paltrow had shown up at a New York film premiere with odd circular hickeys on her shoulders and back.  It turned out that these were due to her use of an acupuncture technique known as “cupping” in which glass jars are warmed (with a candle, I

Brian Greene is not only one of the foremost theoretical physicists/cosmologists, but he also has a talent for explaining some of the most difficult and abstract concepts in physics to those outside of his field.

The variety of stem cell science that has been the subject of most controversy has been the harvesting and use of cells from fetuses.  However, this intriguing account by New Yorker science writer Dana Goodyear relates the story of a revolutionary alternative to embryonic stem cells, stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, or STAP.