'If you begin by treating the scientific ideas of earlier centuries as myths, you will end by treating your own scientific ideas as dogmas': we have tried, throughout this book, to display the…

DO YOU ‘EXIST’ EVERY MOMENT IN YOUR EXISTENCE? Ayad Gharbawi February 17, 2010 – Damascus, Syria Let me get straight to the point here.We all assume that we are either ‘alive’ or ‘dead’. Fine, but…

A century ago, biofuels (wood, dung and crop residues) provided the great majority of household energy worldwide. With the advent of fuels such as oil and gas, and the more widespread availability of…

David Brin (author of The Postman) is interviewed this week as part of Nature's ongoing series of interviews with science writers: Brin got his PhD in physics and then left research to write science…

Last week, the New York Times published an item about putting wireless Internet on a school bus. Using a $200 router and $60/month for Internet service, a school district in Arizona has equipped a…

In a column in Nature, Colin Macilwain suggests that bad science reporting is due in part to its relatively low cost: Propped up by the specious authority of their jargon and, most of all, by their…

About once a week, my legges taken me (in a Middle English sort of way) over to lunch in the common room of our Department of Agriculture, where a kindly member of staff leaves copies of journals for…

Time for my irregular not-semi-annual roundup of recent science webtoons.  Today we have a pair of comics detailing the difference between Movie Science and Real Science.  Enjoy! AlexTues…

As 70 percent of the agriculture based population lives in villages where  the only accessible source of fuel is wood fuel, cow dung cakes and agricultural waste material like wheat straw,…

The phenomenon, by which perihelion of elliptical orbital path of a planet appears to rotate around a central body, is known as the precession of the orbital path. Since the precession of mercury’s…

I remember very well the very first meeting of the Heavy Flavour Working Group in CDF that I attended in the summer of 1992. I was a summer student back then, and my understanding of spoken English…

My colleague, the Tortoise Cat, always attempts to alert me whenever a lone wild rabbit prances by our back steps in the wee-most moments of the dawn. But I have been too slow, so far, to catch even…

This link will bring you to my live Podcast video to an introduction to true ancient Bonsai . It is called "Bonsai Lesson #1"

Pachauri's IPCC report faces fresh questions | LONDON: The UN climate panel headed by Rajendra Pachauri faced fresh allegations with a British paper claiming that the data contained in its report…

This year's environmentally friendly exhibits include toys made of wood and innovative offers AFP, 16 February 2010, 08:34am IST NEW YORK: US toy makers are coming out of a long recession tunnel this…

Knowledge Should Inform Belief Unfortunately, belief is all too often used as an excuse for selectively ignoring knowledge. ... real-world knowledge does not exist simply to be cherry-picked…

If you go to Jason W. Chin's website you can see that his research involves a synthetic genetic code. So yesterday was published a paper on Nature's website where Chin's group made a ribosome capable…

Have a look at these from the Times (link below): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6931417.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=6931417&nSlide=1&sectionName…

For those not living on the East Coast or regions around Atlanta, be thankful that you (a) live in an area that can actually deal with snowfall, or (b) don't live in an area that gets snow. It is fun…

"In 1934, L.E.Kinsler at the California Institute of technology was studying the Zeeman effect as a means for evaluating the charge-to-mass ratio of the electron, e/m. The deduction of e/m from the…