By Preeti Malhotra, India Syndicate, 07/12/2009Yes, legalise sex trade, but then also legitimise graft Few years back as a practicing advocate, I made a suggestion to a senior bureaucrat in the Delhi…

Copenhagen: A bad deal is worse than no deal The cat is out of the bag. However, the leaked political draft agreement crafted by the Danes holds few surprises. There is nothing in the draft Twitter…

Wen calls up Manmohan to discuss Copenhagen summit Buzz Up Share New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) As India and China face a tough task of tilting the climate change negotiations in favour of…

A recent LiveScience article "Americans Believe in God, Astrology, and Ghosts" indicates that the beliefs people hold may actually be contradictory and a mix of a variety of themes. This tends to…

China emissions could double by 2020: Experts AFP 10 December 2009, 09:54am ISTText Size:|Topics:China emissions 2020 BEIJING: Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon…

What do you think is the number one reason men gave for cheating on their long term partner? a) Primarily Sexual Dissatisfactionb) Other/no dissatisfactionc) Equal Emotional and Sexual…

What is the number one reason men say they cheat on their long term partner? Is it a) Primarysexual dissatisfactionb) Other/nodissatisfactionc) Equalemotional and sexual Dissatisfactiond)…

Several weeks ago, New Scientist ran a story about some mathematical modeling work that a couple of researchers in Mexico did. They modeled public transportation systems, and investigated the…

The trouble with drones is proliferation and sovereignty.  Take this story for example where the Pakistan's minister of Information and Broadcasting urges the United States to "transfer drone…

The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is…

Q.1 (i) A yeast artificial chromosome (short YAC) is a vector used to clone large DNA fragments (larger than 100 kb and up to 3000 kb). It is an artificially constructed chromosome and contains the…

Ok, now it is public, so I can also broadcast it: LHC last night got the two proton beams to collide at 2.36 TeV total center of mass energy. You can see a few event displays here: http://atlas.web…

Climate summit in turmoil over Danish proposal Buzz Up Share Copenhagen, Dec 9 (IANS) The Dec 7-18 climate summit was thrown into turmoil on its second evening as developing countries came…

Global level climate change comes from individuals and their collective activities and can be solved at individual level only not by targets set at Copenhagen or Kyoto. We pollute the climate by…

My 19 y/o son, Joshua Robinson was found dead in Amsler Park/McGregor, Texas, on February 16, 2006. Without investigating or asking me, the mother, any questions, the police surmised his death was…

Hey, I'm in New Zealand, home of the colossal squid! I believe--oh yes, Scientific Blogging has seen mention of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltonii before. Suffice it to say here that M. hamiltonii, the…

Well, as you know I cannot say anything about internal matters of the CMS experiment at the LHC, but I know that other sites will have information pretty soon on the matter. So my advice for tonight…

Cracks appear in G-77 bloc on Day One Nitin Sethi, TNN 8 December 2009, 12:46am ISTText Size:|Topics:Climate Copenhagen COPENHAGEN: The opening day of the meeting of 193 countries on climate change…

Cassia fistula belonging to Leguminosae family, is widely used for its medicinal properties, its main property being that of a mild laxative suitable for children and pregnant women. It is also a…

Bioenergy requirements in the short to medium term, however, there are uncertainties concerning the availability of all of the above resource for the long term and in few countries some of them are…