Researchers from the University of Texas and Shriners Hospitals for Children say a compound from licorice root (glycyrrhizin from Glycyrrhiza glabra) might be an effective treatment for antibiotic…

New evidence uncovered by a team from Imperial College London and the University College London (UCL) suggests that during the Hesperian Epoch, approximately 3 billion years ago, Mars sustained lakes…

Women's minds and bodies respond differently to sexual arousal, whereas men's bodies and minds tend to be more in tune with each other, according to research conducted by an international team of…

 Researchers from UC San Diego, Santa Barbara and MIT have developed a "cocktail" of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill…

What is one of the key secrets that a great grant writer knows, but that most other people don’t? Let’s use a story to explore this one. In middle school I was a very disengaged student. I struggled…

Note to self. The list of countries to avoid visiting grows in 2010 with the entry of Ireland, a green country where people speak with a funny accent and drink good spirits. These are not at all…

After re-emerging from a rather debilitating new years' eve banquet, I feel I can provide my own answers to the second batch of physics questions I proposed a few days ago to the most active readers…

Some years ago, I was watching a wildlife TV programme, where a mother leopard was leading her three cubs, and they encountered a bank. Two of the cubs jumped it on the first go, but the third…

In the age of the Hubble Space Telescope, and ever larger earthbound scopes being build, many people are of the impression that one needs costly equipment to enjoy the night skies. Nothing is further…

Mumbai: India’s second largest airline by passengers carried, Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, has signed an agreement with three international firms to explore development and production of an alternative…

Next week is the winter 215th AAS meeting, this time in D.C..  I'll be there presenting there Thursday on Project Calliope, the ScientificBlogging music satellite I'm building in my basement for…

Rather than writing down my new year's resolution, I find it more constructive to look back at the past year and draw some conclusions on it. I have already done some analysis concerning this blog in…

I AM RICE A reading activity on the Digestion of Carbohydrates By Camilo Apita Tabinas I would like to share this method of teaching the topic on digestion of carbohydrates. This worked with my…

Environmentalists worried over global warming affecting Kashmir climate ANI 25 December 2009, 09:53pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Kashmir Valley Chilai Kalan SRINAGAR: Environmentalists have expressed…

'Copenhagen could mean end of Kyoto' TNN 28 December 2009, 02:55am ISTText Size:|Topics:India Saran Copenhagen Kyoto NEW DELHI: Prime Minister's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran on…

Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions: Study PTI 30 December 2009, 12:58pm ISTText Size:|Topics:arctic US Geological Survey WASHINGTON: US Geological Survey (USGS) has warned that the…

Note to those in the various fields of Physics: You must read the entire paper. The language and style may seem contradictive from a mathematical standpoint in the early paragraphs. The paper is…

    THE END OF TIME©          By: David Cox     Note to those in the various fields of Physics: You must read the entire paper.…

Something rotten Sitaram Yechury December 15, 2009 First Published: 21:22 IST(15/12/2009) Last Updated: 21:28 IST(15/12/2009) Print The global negotiations on Climate Change at Copenhagen…