Have Academic Journals Outlived their Usefulness?

When Modern Science was first launched by the Royal Society (UK) it was conceived as a public, shared enterprise open to everyone to share information. This was communicated by their first society...

01 February 2018 9,605 5 View

TIME: Have Intellectuals ignored Time for too long?

Western Civilization has been most influenced in the world of ideas by the Hebrew/Greek traditions, which were merged 2000 years ago into theology known as Christianity, which still dominates many...

11 December 2017 356 1 View

Does the 'SOUL' concept have any philosophical value?

'Soul' seems another of those ancient religious ideas that still persist in modern times; mainly due to that Catholic Coward: Rene Descartes with his dualistic copout, splitting off 'spirit' from...

11 December 2017 8,687 1 View

Have philosophers made any difference to humanity?

Clever men have been "talking" (also known as 'philosophy') for about 2500 years. They have raised many questions but few answers. What are the problems here? Why so little progress? Any...

10 November 2017 8,672 6 View

Can scientists even answer Rupert Sheldrake's challenge to mechanical science?

07 August 2017 7,866 0 View

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01 January 1970 6,525 91 View

Is Darwinian Evolution Flawless?

It is my impression that Darwinian Evolution, especially the invocation of Genes, has become too readily accepted; there exists Intellectual Crowd Gathering, just as in other areas of fashion...

01 January 1970 9,464 5 View

Why is Wave Mechanics anything more than 3D Fourier Analysis?

In 1807, Joseph Fourier announced his mathematical equivalence of finite functions with an INFINITE series of simple harmonic functions; this meant any complex tone could be summed (analyzed) into...

01 January 1970 9,099 4 View

Is QM a flawed Physics Theory?

In discussing Quantum Mechanics (QM), I shall restrict myself here to Schroedinger's Non-Relativistic Wave Mechanics (WM), as Dirac showed (in his 1930 text) [using Hilbert State Vectors] that...

01 January 1970 3,574 5 View

Where can I find the Apollonius result that an ellipse is the intersection of a plane and a cone?

01 January 1970 5,184 28 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

How to compare different concentrations of nanoparticles for characterization from ICP-MS?

I took measurements of different concentrations of 15 nm and 5 nm Au nano particle solutions. I'm trying to determine which concentration I measured gives the best reading overall. I also...

02 March 2021 7,626 1 View

How to simultaneously perform multiple biochemical assays?

I am a research scholar working on heavy metal stress on plants. I will be doing biochemical characterisation( protein, carbohydrate, proline, antioxidant enzymes and many more assays) at interval...

01 March 2021 6,999 3 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

Does any one can help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions interactions with guanine (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.)?

Hello every body Does any one has any idea to help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.) interactions with guanine or other DNA organic...

01 March 2021 6,187 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

Why does intensity drops as concentration increases?

Is there any reason for decrease in fluorescence emission intensity of HSA,BSA when increase the concentration ?

28 February 2021 3,653 4 View

POlymer+DMSO solution and moisture??

What could be the reason of moisture at the sides of Vial when I am preparing my polmyer+DMSO solution for membrane fabrication? What etiquettes I am possibly missing here?

28 February 2021 6,516 5 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View