Body-clock gene reveals sleep cycles with just a pluck, study says.  Early bird or late riser? The mysteries of your sleep cycle may be unlocked by the hairs on your head, says this National…

Last week in Tesero, in front of an audience of 150 interested laypersons, I spoke about the marvels of particle physics (the poster of the conference I gave is below, click to enlarge). My first…

One thing I see a lot of, given the kind of community we are and so the kinds of people I read to see what's happening in the rest of the world, is how things have to change.  I wrote a piece…

Listen to Mars, now listen to me, now listen to Mars. This is what Mars could sound like, if it sounded like me. Today, we listen to sonification of data, artistic interpretation, and discuss which…

And The Latest Word On Climate Change Is - How to solve the climate change problem? Invent a new word. There!  Job done.  You can go back to sleep now. http://www.grist.org/article/2010-08…

As told by the creator at Overclockers.com I made the Playstation controller coffee table for my year 12 major work, as an Industrial Technology project. I made the whole controller out of Plywood,…

As told by the creator at Overclockers.com I made the Playstation controller coffee table for my year 12 major work, as an Industrial Technology project. I made the whole controller out of Plywood,…

The ISME Journal advance online publication 15 July 2010; doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.106 Big sulfur bacteria, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus…

A game that involves scientists?  Why not?   AmoebaMike is creating a series of Science Trading Cards - now he just needs to invent a game to go with it.  Sample: Sure, some of our…

A game that involves scientists?  Why not?   AmoebaMike is creating a series of Science Trading Cards - now he just needs to invent a game to go with it.  Sample: Sure, some of our…

Nature has its own rules and it plays its game on its own terms. If there is auto inhibition of spore germination, there is also infection court which requires minimum number of propagaules to…

Jason Hoyt, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist and VP of R&D at Mendeley, and asks researchers which side they want to be on in the march of history - legacy toll access to results or open access of both…

If Octopus will be deciding the outcome of world football matches in future also it will not be a surprise. The reason is simple. People say all the 23 predictions that Octopus made came true. I dint…

If anything goes wrong in any part of the world the answer is “ climate change”. It is true in some cases. Supporters of climate change say its true in all cases. However opponents of the climate…

A study conducted at University of Bristol published in Biology Letters assumes that Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force http://www.bbc.co…

Salt resistant plants are able to exclude Na+ in a selective manner from their plasma membrane during initial phase of salinity which is encountered during first phase . Cell membranes are…

A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive…

A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive…

Yesterday, JR Minkel tweeted this: @jrminkel The most striking science analogy I've ever heard: http://bit.ly/auGvp4 The link leads to a brief excerpt from an NPR story in which Johns Hopkins…