We are a water planet but 10% of Earth is covered in ice - ice that is melting in ways that have to be a concern.    To get a handy view of what is happening in the big areas, Greenland,…

Yesterday's Guardian featured this gem, "This is a news website article about a scientific paper", by Martin Robbins.  It begins: "In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the…

World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The mental aspect of health is very…

Countries, rivers, civilizations and economy. If you board a ferry at Koblenz in Germany and sail in Rhine river the stretch between Koblenz to Rudeshime is world heritage as it is dotted on both…

Giant milkweed is also known as sodom apple, calotrope, French cotton, small crown flower (English), algodón de seda, bomba (Spanish), cotton-france, arbre de soie, and bois canon (French) (Howard…

There is huge dying industry for clothes , there is huge carpet industry for export, there is hand paper industry and there are laws that they dont employ children. Where are the laws that they…

One broken ‘green’ CFL bulb contains at least .5 mg of mercury, some claim that .5 mg is enough to pollute 180 tons of water but without a doubt mercury poisoning is dangerous to humans and the…

With the fresh news of the election of Pierluigi Campana as spokesperson of the LHCb experiment, the Italian participation to the LHC experiments at the CERN laboratories is close to a grand slam:…

If you are a scientist in any field you have had to deal with a member of the public who did not understand the word theory.  This blog post intends to be a simple explanation for the willing…

This whole week there are write-ups all over the internet about something called dry water. Well, originally the idea was patented in 1968, so its not out of the blue. But there is a new use to…

Family Fabaceae dominates the plant world and consists of a large number of plants which are having Ayurvedic medicinal importance. This family Fabaceae consists of 600 genera with 12000 species and…

"At that time, although recognized for the very high quality and reliability of its accelerator engineering, CERN unfortunately did not have a similar reputation in its physics, and it was still…

There are only some science subjects if you go by the word science i.e. social science , political science, military science which have science word attached to them . Clearly they deal with society…

Since the man came to present form the countries originated around the globe and within a span of 50 years the number of member of United Nations has increased in several dozens in a span of 40…

Ayurvedic medicines are basically derived from the Vedic literature and plants of family Fabaceae have special importance in the Ayurvedic medicines.The family Fabaceae popularly known as legumes, is…

Cosmology has been crossing my transom.  I've been getting press releases from the new online Journal of Cosmology.  Below is a sample.  They have a respectible team and, frankly, a…

CASSIA SENNA LINN. Botanical name :- Cassia senna Linn. Var. senna syn.Cassia acutifolia Delile ; Cassia angustifolia Vahl . Common name in Hindi :- Bhuikhakhasa , Hindisana . Common name in English…

There can be no ideal person but there can be ideal ideas. Only one thing that a writer needs is ideas. They may or may not be ideal. Ideas get a Nobel Prize if written in the proper manner. …

Eyes speak volumes but words don’t. Words are words and carry no weight . Look into the eyes and find the solutions. Many a times we go by words but time tells words have no meaning at least of some…

Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology Basics and Application Series: Principles and Practice Neumann, Karl-Hermann, Kumar, Ashwani, Imani, Jafargholi 2009, IX, 333 p. 153 illus.,…