My car Runs On Snake Oil There are far too many people trying to con money out of ordinary people with offers of gadgets that will supply you forever with free energy. ... we're a wee bit skeptical…

Right now on the east coast of Australia where I live, we have an outbreak of the deadly Hendra Virus (HeV) which kills horses and humans and even infects dogs and I have to admit that I’m scared,…

Why dark matter does not emit photon? We are now living in the era of new revolution. Are we again treading on the process of huge revolution that occurred in the late 19th century and the early…

Dark Matters from PHD Comics on Vimeo. Sounds like they had a few physics grad students + Jorge Cham. A good and entertaining review of these major players on the cosmological stage. Note: dark…

"A blind use of tail-area probabilities allows the statistician  to cheat, by claiming at a suitable point in a sequential  experiment that he has a train to catch. This must have been…

We've all heard that that the population of whites in the U.S. will be surpassed by non-white minorities in the not-so-distant future.1 Advertisers have adjusted to the demographic growth and…

No, I'm not suggesting that when a recession hits, you should go out and invest in squid fisheries. (But I'm not not saying that. I'm--oh, forget it.) Rather, in the words of my PhD advisor William…

The famous Northwest Passage has become infamous in recent years, as Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks and leaves an open waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. We tend to…

1. Rosa macrophylla Lindley. Family : Rosaceae Bhutanese medicinal name: Se-rgod. Common name : Taste metog Distribution Area : Temperate Himalaya, Bhutan, Sikkim, alt. 1,200-3,500m. In Bhutan…

The Integrated Surface Database http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php  is a joint project of the National Climatic Data Center, the Navy, and the Air Force, and is a combination…

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. Family : Saxifragaceae Bhutanese medicinal name : Bri- ta- sa- zin Distribution area: Bhutan, Nepal to S.W. China. Alt. 3,600-4,500m. Alpine…

June 28 - Shoot It in the Head Snarky puzzle. If you go down in a gravity field, time ticks slower, rulers look longer to someone else. That is 2 changes. Newton’s scalar theory accounts for just one…

If you haven't already, go enjoy Hank's blog, "Higgs Boson - Forget Science, What Do Bookies Think?". He answered what was the most pressing question to me: one cannot bet that no Higgs will be found…

I was catching up on chemistry news over the lunch hour and discovered this little gelatinous gem:New Strategy for Expression of Recombinant Hydroxylated Human-Derived Gelatin in Pichia pastoris…

My immediate feeling as Shuttle Atlantis touched down safely was one of relief. But now that all the post-facto analysis have started, with maybe some recrimination, let me entertain you all…

A couple of curious squid stories have been peppering my news feed this weekend:First, a dried squid in Hawaii looked enough like a severed hand to get the homicide brigade called out to the beach.…

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT OF NEEM Priyanka Srivastavaa, Mithilesh Singha and Rakhi Chaturvedi*a *aDepartment of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology- Guwahati Guwahati - 781039, Assam,…

More than half of the world’s population, especially women and preschool children are victim of micronutrient malnutrition, primarily resulting from the consumption of diets with lower bio-available…

Molluscs are Marvellous! — as regular readers of “Squid-a-Day” will know. The recent presentation there of Celebrate Squid Babies brought to mind the following, from Darwin’s notebooks…

PLANT TISSUE CULTURE AND APPLIED PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY A Kumar and S Roy Plant biotechnology, especially genetic transformation, represents one of powerful tools for the improvement of various…