Nature has created roses to make you happy.

Water plants float on water bodies but still can respire as they have stomata largely on upper side of the leaves ( adaxial surface) and either have broad leaves or serrated leaves.

Plants wait for insects to visit their pitcher like structure and close the lid and digest the insect to meet their protein needs.

Plants resemble stones if they have to grow in deserts . Can you recognise plants from pebbles in this picture ? Nature has plants designed to go upto 14,000 feet and above MSL . Even you can decide…

Plants resemble stones if they have to grow in deserts . Can you recognise plants from pebbles in this picture ? Nature has plants designed to go upto 14,000 feet and above MSL . Even you can decide…

Over 16 million people displaced in one country, millions displaced in another, due to deforestation on the banks of their rivers and almost all the lakes world over especially in developing world or…

Over 16 million people displaced in one country, millions displaced in another, due to deforestation on the banks of their rivers and almost all the lakes world over especially in developing world or…

Over 16 million people displaced in one country, millions displaced in another, due to deforestation on the banks of their rivers and almost all the lakes world over especially in developing world or…

Its pity that we destroy the forests on the banks of the rivers, remove trees on the hills, and allow silt to accumulate in the lakes. All this leads to destroying water bodies. It's fury of nature…

The logic behind the worship of Goddess of wealth Laxmi in Indian mythology is simple. Lotus grows in water ponds. If you need to worship you need to bring lotus. Lotus is found in water bodies only…

A post on the Science Codex caught my attention (You think of your dog as one of your children? You probably live in the city). Of course, my first reaction was that this guy clearly lived in the…

A new type of operator is required. Why? Because unitary transformations cannot move subspaces of a Hilbert space. They cannot move their own eigenvectors. Since their eigenfunctions span the whole…

Zombies - A Public Policy StudyFound last night during a Google search for latest news about something entirely unrelated to this search result: Night of the Living WonksToward an international…

Yesterday, I seemed to be under a giant cloud, with lots up in the air. A difficult ghostwriting deadline for an article about clouds loomed, but the Tortoise Cat signaled we were overdue for a…

I almost categorized this under Humor but it's more scary than funny... TPM highlights the Conservapedia argument against the theory of relativity: "The theory of relativity is a mathematical system…

Tom Scott is a geek comedian who has been described as a "sometime internet funny man" by The Register has come to the rescue of science journalism with a list of warnings they can go ahead and…

Over at the NASW.org archives, their cybrarian did a summary of science blog sites.  And in case "Science2.0" isn't hot enough, we find science3point0.com (yes, that's their moniker): Another…

The second of six parts of my presentation at Inconjunction 2010. I resented on Archaeology and PseudoArchaeology. It was my first live talk, so I was really serious, but the audience was great and I…

The last 10 years or so I have been working on various aspects of the environment. Though my main perspective has been scientific, the political framework set the scene and define the premises for…

That did it, if only by an inch. Damn! Two days ago, back from a 4-week vacation to Greece, I approached my faithful and precise scale with a clear, pre-determined thought in my mind: "If I am over…