This seems like something obvious that I should really know, but I worry that I'm forgetting something. Squids, octopuses, and cuttlefish all squirt ink. (Nautilus, the throwback cephalopod, does not…

Reducing green house gas emissions is one thing and checking rivers from drying , ponds , lakes , dams , going without water, flora and fauna being lost each year, more and more land turning saline…

India follows China's footsteps, to announce emission cuts today Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Thu, Dec 3 11:55 AM New Delhi, Dec 3 (ANI): Following…

Influence of growth regulators on flowering and Fruiting in in    JATROPHA CURCAS: a bio-diesel plant      A. KUMAR  Engery Plantation Demonstration project and…

Combustion is a commercial technology with traditional fuels such as wood residues and MSW (incineration) and several successful applications can be identified worldwide. However, in order to…

Energy is a crucial and vital ingredient for the modern development of economic activities of our society. Biofuel is a locally-available source of energy that not only can provide energy to meet the…

Dear readers, Rationally Speaking is soon going to be (also) a podcast, produced by New York City Skeptics, and co-hosted by Julia Galef and yours truly. Before each (initially biweekly,…

So my friend's setting up her wireless network and asks me about names, and I randomly spout off the phrase "unicorn tentacles". Cause that's a great name for a wireless network. Then I started…

Dietmar Brandes (2005): Calotropis procera on Fuerteventura. http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/geobot/fuerte.html Calotropis procera is a „spreading shrub or small tree to 4 m, exuding copious milky sap…

Two things I like are open research and seeing my tax dollars get used effectively.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) just did both in one swoop.  As reported in detail on NASW, over…

If Darth Vader friend-requested you and you clicked "Ignore," do you think he would know? I don't think I'd take that chance... Tip of the lightsaber to the GEH and to Brian Murphy at College Humor.

SOME POTENTIAL PLANTS FOR BIO-ENERGY ASHWANI KUMAR AND AMIT KOTIYA Bio-Technology Lab,Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004 Energy Plantation Demonstration project and…

A perspective piece by Danielle Ofri of the NYU School of Medicine, in last week's New England Journal of Medicine (subscription required) nails the H1N1 vaccine hysteria: After repeated delays, H1N1…

The Carnival of Physics is an event organized by Gravità Zero and Gravedad Cero, two sites of scientific outreach in Italy and Spain. I participate with three recent articles which are published on…

Last night the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has circulated the highest-energy beams of particles ever produced. The beam energy has been brought up from the injection energy of 450 GeV to 1.18 TeV,…

Today's Ecoview column in the Tuscaloosa News addresses this question: Q: Can you tell me what a group of squid is called? A squad? A school? I’ve tried to look it up, but I haven’t seen anything…

I had an idea that the theories of the earliest stages of the universe were speculative.  I just never really knew how speculative until I really looked at them.  The CMB is as…

A just-released Study by The Lancet and other notable international organizations says "Climate change already affects human health, and if no action is taken, problems such as malnutrition, deaths…

PRODUCTIVTY OF CALOTROPIS PROCERA IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF RAJASTHAN AND ITS USE AS RENEWABLE SOURCE OF ENERGY Ashwani Kumar, V.R. Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology…

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA ABSTRACT The state of Rajasthan is situated…