COPENHAGEN – President Barack Obama is holding another one-on-one meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in hopes of sweeping aside some of the disputes that have barred a final deal at an…

Developed nations should deliver on Kyoto Protocol, says Manmohan Singh Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 18 07:30 PM Copenhagen, Dec.18 (ANI):…

This morning LHC machinists, experimentalists from the LHC experiments, as well as other CERN personnel gathered in the Main Auditorium at CERN to give their end-of-year report. After a LHC status…

Dark spots on flower petals are common across many angiosperm plant families and occur on some flowers such as lilies, orchids, and considerable research has been done on the physiological and…

Nanotechnology is a big buzzword this decade but there are questions about how safe nano-based products are and we are unsure how to even measure,  much less regulate, them. Anti-odor socks,…

Today mankind has a pretty good understanding of what physical processes followed the big bang, and lead to the universe we see  today. This understanding is based on the solid foundation…

Three days ago I wrote a blog about a new theory that seems to lead to the conclusion that gravity is an effect emerging from quantum mechanical principles. The blog was inspired by an interview with…

Last-minute crumbs at Copenhagen With 24 hours to go, a minor US concession and a truce between squabbling nation blocs on Thursday allowed some crumbs to be salvaged from the Copenhagen climate…

I have a few cephalopod ornaments to hang on the boughs, but nothing like these ninety-nine beautiful hand-sewn octopuses! Esty has a number of options when it comes to festive cephalopods. This is…

James “the Amazing” Randi is an icon of skepticism. The man has done more — over a span of several decades — to further the cause of critical thinking and to expose flimflammery of all sorts than…

India attacks Danes for keeping political statement secret Press Trust Of India Copenhagen, December 17, 2009 First Published: 20:58 IST(17/12/2009) Last Updated: 21:12 IST(17/12/2009) Print…

Biodiversity Informatics: the emergence of a field Indra Neil Sarkar1,2,3 1 Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA 2 Department of Microbiology…

World leaders address fraught climate summit Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Thu, Dec 17 04:15 PM Copenhagen, Dec. 17 -- Persistently deep divisions…

Don't be embarrassed, it happens to everyone: One day you wake up to find you've been apped. Remember: it's not your fault. You're still the same person, capable of independent thought and even mild…

If your kids want a Wii, PlayStation or Xbox 360 this holiday season, you may actually have good reason to give them one; it turns out there is some redeeming value in the hours that kids spend…

With the publication of a new study in Cellular Microbiology, an international team of researchers has shed new light on the infection strategy of Salmonella, suggesting that scientists will have to…

The potentially damaging effects of marijuana on young brains may be even worse than previously thought, according to new research conducted by scientists from McGill University. Their new study,…

New images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show that the symmetry of supernova remnants, or lack thereof, reveal how the original stars exploded. Astronomers say the discovery is important…

In the Dec. 18 issue of Science, Researchers from Tufts University say popular television programs are spreading racial messages to their viewers through biased facial expressions and body language,…

Scientists have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered--West Mata Volcano--located 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji,Tonga and Samoa. The…