When I was undergraduate student in 1963 the Bharatpur Kevladev Bird Sanctuary, Bhartpur was a reed swap stage ecological formation where some level of water stayed all around the year. Then came one…

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When asked to justify the research I do, I always struggle a little to explain my dissatisfaction with the traditional descriptive, non-quantitative explanations of molecular biological systems. As a…

Last fall, ScientificBlogging introduced our first ever University Writing Competition. We were blown away by the quality of science articles we received, and are excited to announce that we’re doing…

This morning, upon leaving Brussels to go back home after my seminar in Louvain-la-Neuve, my attention was caught by a big green banner hanging from a tall building at Place Schuman. It said "Safe…

Renowned Indian Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan on Wednesday commended the Indian government's decision to defer the cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) egg plant, Bt brinjal in the…

Scientific Evidence Of Your Own Awesomeness Do you like to share awe-inspiring articles with your friends, like the many [New York] Times readers whose habits are analyzed in a new study? Or do you…

I was off to a very important discussion on the next day. As usual, there were butterflies in my stomach wondering on how my story would be accepted by my critics, my dearest students. Ever since I…

The protein ToxT controls the virulent nature of Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that causes cholera. And buried within ToxT is a fatty acid that appears to inhibit the protein, preventing V. cholerae…

New research published in Stroke has linked the risk of suffering a stroke to the presence of a certain type of antibody in the immune system. According to the study, researchers may now be able to…

It appears that the act of voluntarily sharing something with another is not entirely exclusive to the human experience. Researchers writing in Current Biology observe that bonobos—a sister species…

Should there be restrictions on the amount of sodium in processed and restaurant foods? Many public health advocates think so. They argue that people consume excessive amounts of sodium without even…

Drilling firm Lapindo Brantas has denied that one of its gas exploration well was the trigger for the Lusi mud volcano, which killed 13 people and displaced thirty thousand in East Java, Indonesia on…

Get your mouse-clicking fingers ready, everybody - time to vote on your favorite NYC condom wrapper design! Five finalists were selected from nearly 600 entries, and the winning image will be the…

Dairy Farmer Makes BS Claim The Utah House has passed a resolution questioning the science behind global warming. Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday…

Have you ever pondered public radio fund drives? Whether you’ve supported the station or not (I do), the drive persists; they keep asking for money the whole, dreary week. If you pay on the first day…

Of Snakes And Oil A headnote explaining the need for the footnotesThe author not wishing to superimpose an overabundance or superfluity of operose terms, has subpended copious footnotes for the…

Some Gems Of Comment Spam We get a few spam comments here, promoting all sorts of rubbish web sites. Currently, we seem to be targeted by people who want to do our writing for us.  Now, given…

The question of whether record snows in the Northeast US says something about climate change is a scientific question. The NY Times shows us how not to report on a scientific issue: Skeptics of…

Wondering if the "natural" cleaning product you're using is really all that natural? Well, soon you won't have to wonder - the Natural Products Association (NPA) released a set of guidelines today…