I get quite a lot of press releases, as you can imagine.  Dozens or hundreds depending on the day.  Most are relevant, like the embargoed stuff from Cell or Nature (we don't get those from…

The remaining vulture population in the North West Rajasthan range suffers an increased vulnerability due to:•Isolated subpopulations•Very large foraging areas (local and non-local threats)•Very low…

Emerson said “A man is what he thinks about all day long…….”. What controls our thought process? We can have 9 types of thoughts as are the “ rasa”. Some of the thoughts could be of Love, hate,…

You can donate money to help schoolchildren throughout the year, but if you participate in the ocean blogging community's annual Donor's Choose drive (which ends November 9th) then you get your name…

We can add one more case to creationism's long record of legal failures. Yes, a creationist biology class is not adequate preparation for college coursework. The Supreme Court declined to hear an…

I don't know who decides this "week" stuff - generally, I assume people who do the marketing make the rules so if I decide I want a Science 2.0 Week I get a few people to promote it and that's that,…

Most Facebook users think they see all their friends in the news feed and everything is okay, they just think some are just not posting. Well it might not be the case.  Facebook use algorithms…

Hi all, I'm giving an invited talk at the AGU this year and would looooove to hook up with other Science2.0-ers.  Anyone else going to be there, or in San Fran, Dec 13-17?  I'll be there on…

I guess there is a new anime called Squid Girl? I guess Squid Girl's goal is to "subdue the human race and prevent them from polluting the ocean"? I can't decide whether or not this sounds like…

Happiness is defined in east and west in different manner. Amassing huge amount of wealth by rulers in east was considered to make them happy while saints of eastern philosophy derived their…

A group of plants including from smallest to largest occupy a water body. If you introduce strange plant among the group of plants the plants will revolt silently and slowly die or wither. Like…

Pt Jawaharlal Nehru wrote famous book Discovery of India. It depicted unity in diversity. Now if you apply the same to the world of plants and call it discovery of biodiversity , the unity in…

Finally, we have a President who not only believes in science but wants to improve science education. After eight years of the science isn't conclusive, evolution didn't happen and scientists afraid…

From Yahoo News.

New vending machines are popping up in Germany. No, they aren't selling used underwear like in Japan. They're selling disposable shoes, called Ballerina To Go, for women whose feet are aching after…

A spunky late 20-something is bringing the breast cancer fight to young people with her Bright Pink organization. Although she's uncomfortable with the word "inspiring," that is just what she and her…

Global Warming and Me The NOAA reports that "we are currently tied with 1998 as the warmest January–September period on record." Having now experienced a near-record-breakingly warm summer and fall,…

There are some interesting parallels here between the development of scientific thinking and the development of literature: The novel broke from those narrative predecessors that used timeless…

"Since two fermions cannot turn into three fermions, the experimental observation of three-jet events in e+e- annihilation, first accomplished by the TASSO collaboration in June 1979 and confirmed by…

In 1978, Louise Joy Brown was the first child to be Born through In vitro Fertilization (IVF). In 2010, Dr. Robert G. Edwards was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine for his…