No hindu house in a village will be without a plant of Tulsi Ocimum sanctum . Surprising other religious groups in India also had their sacred plants. I had this plant in my house in the hedge and…

MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists - #1A brief explanation of the NASA/GSFC MODIS Rapid Response System - Rapidfire - together with a Howto for citizen scientists. National Aeronautics and Space…

South Korea Fails to Launch Space Rocket The's second attempt to launch its first space rocket has failed. Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byung-man announced in a briefing on…

"What is the meaning of our existence, what is the meaning of existence for all living beings in general? Knowing how to answer such a question means to have religious feelings. You will say, but…

Extinction is nothing new; more than 99% of all species that have ever lived we will never know about.  Extinction is entirely natural and, if you've ever watched someone's car weaving on the…

Some estimates claim that within the first week after giving birth, up to 70 percent of women experience symptoms of the 'baby blues' - obviously a different thing than clinical postpartum depression…

Hydrogen is the fuel-cell future but currently it has a number of issues, primarily related to storage(1) and cost.   Cost because getting hydrogen out of a molecule requires a catalyst and…

Light beams travel in straight lines and don't go around corners, they instead spread through a process known as diffraction. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that small beams of…

Please indulge me a charming aside from A.A. Milne in order to set the stage for my essay…. (don’t worry, it’s charming) The House at Pooh Corner (pg 93-94)In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore…

Yes, of course! Case in point, Dr. Twittenheimer, whose secret identity I won't reveal about myself. You can follow on Twitter for humour hot off the press. Or you can sign up by RSS or email for…

Negative aspect Long time ago I used to think that science is a way to take raw data and logically deduct statements about the world. I used to think that it has some kind of strong metaphysical…

So, I try to put it into English what I think about life and mistakenness of current canonical paradigm about a life. There are several points, where the current paradigm is simply wrong. I have made…

Regarding the recent Nature News article (Transcription: Enhancer makes non-coding RNA. Nature 465, 173-174; 2010) about the discovery of enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) and their apparent link with neuronal…

Autonomous Satellites How smart does a satellite have to be to function? I'm working on the design of the Project Calliope satellite, and near as I can tell, it doesn't need a brain. All it needs is…

Arctic Summer 2010 - Hot Or Not? Will it get very warm in the Arctic this summer? It is already so warm in many parts of the Arctic that floes which would normally obstruct the free flow of ice for…

It's no secret social media is big - every marketing group latches on to the latest fad (even us - we gots the Tweetypages, we gots the Faceyspaceys) and people are using it more and more.   But…

Known for their music videos that defy tradition and push the limits of imaginative filming, OK Go has a new one- "End Love",  directed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther. Here's what Jeff had…

The CDF Collaboration has recently produced results of a search for Supersymmetric Higgs bosons in events with three or more bottom-quark jets. Here I wish to give just the highlights of this…

Three  of the trees are worshipped as such like peepal( Ficus religiosa)  and bargad( Ficus bengalensis) and awala ( Phyllanthus emblica) . The first two are huge trees which can provide…

There are two aspects to food research; an industry one, where food additives that can make food taste more or less sweet without calories have benefits, and a therapeutic one, like treating patients…