So fascinating...

Quoted: Scientists have blocked fearful recollections in human participants, sans drugs. The results challenge the view that our long-term memories are fixed and resistant to change.

So interesting!

Quoted: One thing the doomsday scenarios tend to share in common: They don't come to pass.  Here are 10 that didn't pan out, so far.

Hmm, how long before another pharmaceutical company tries to patent turmeric?

Quoted: An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown. The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.

Wow, it'll be interesting to see what India does with its space program...

Quoted: India's space agency is training thousands of young scientists and has planned its first manned space mission in 2015.

Sounds like a really interesting read.

Quoted: Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casual eloquence in The Age of Empathy that wolves are often quite lovely to one another.

Fascinating!

Quoted: A new international study is endeavoring to apply hard science to one of life’s biggest mysteries — its end. “Most people think of death as a moment,” said the project’s founder, Dr. Sam Parnia. “We’ve found it goes on for a period of time.”

My latest blog post ... I'm grumpy.

Quoted: I’m finding that there’s something truly remarkable about food science — the transformations that turn milk into cheese or yogurt, cream into butter, and flour and yeast into bread. That’s the good stuff. But at the end of the day, nobody argues over who gets to do the dishes.

Weird!

Quoted: Walk around Kodinji village in rural India and you'd be forgiven for thinking you have double vision as this community is known as "twin village."