Here's a pleasant Christmas thought-- why are rocket launches like holidays-- infrequent, big productions that tend to always be the same?  A New York Times op-ed, Faster, NASA, Faster, puts…

Algae: The New Oil It's renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2 Oil prices are rising again, and they’re going to continue to do so. We’re already seeing it at the gas pump.…

Looks like your website is under attack from supernatural forces... First of all: Nostradamus demolishes "atheism" __________________________________________________ __wait, wait... I forgot…

Carbon Credits For Forest Land Considered Monday, 12/21/09 - Rachel Ward Options ListenMP3PodcastRSSContact UsTapes & Transcripts(Host) Climate change was the big topic in Copenhagen last week.…

Tuesday, 22 December 2009 10:19 KOTA KINABALU - The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according to conservationists who predict the charismatic red ape will become extinct if…

FISH Incarnation of Lord Vishnu we invoke for ever flowing Grace. Shri Vaadiraaja Samshodhana Pratishtana, Puttige, Karnataka, India and Foundation for Indian Scientific Heritage, Surarkal,…

(based on So, S., et al. "Autophosphorylation at serine 1981 stabilizes ATM at DNA damage sites." Journal of Cell Biology, early release - published December 21, 2009, 10.1083/jcb.200906064)  …

Malaysia, Indonesia reject planting curbs at Copenhagen Published: 2009/12/21 WHILE the recently-ended climate talks in Denmark may have been met with dismay by environmentalists, oil palm planters…

Sure, Christmas is a religious holiday and science and religion share common people but not often common ground.   That doesn't mean we can't all join together and share some Christmas science .…

This blog wishes you a very Merry Christmas, if... You would not really expect me to wish Merry Christmas à tout le monde, right ? I hate nobody, but the fact you visit my site on December 24th does…

It is over, but it was frantic. Luca, the Ph.D. student who works with me at the analysis of CMS data (the one which has brought us to the approval of a first signal of the phi meson) summarized it…

The climate is changing and the natural world has to adapt to it. But how much time do the multitudes of species and their habitats have before it's too late? A team of environmental researchers has…

Many illusions are like spherically curved space. Below on the left (fig. 1 ) is a geometrical illusion, and on the right is a ball with some great arcs drawn on it. Notice the similarities: the…

ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDIES ON MEDICINAL PLANT: CHITRAK From: Santosh Sharma and Ashwani Kumar, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004 - India [msku31@yahoo.com] Introduction Chitrak…

Breaking News: Men's guide to spotting single women ANI 22 December 2009, 04:28pm ISTText Size:|Topics:Sex single men Single women This is the season for single men to be out looking for lovely…

Breaking News: Be his 'sexy' Santa this Xmas TNN 24 December 2009, 12:00am ISTText Size:|Topics:Man woman Christmas relationship guBefore the New Year spirit takes over, bask in the Christmas…

In Anglo-Saxon orthography, so we understand, the letters "ge" often represented the sound "ye".  With that little bit of information, you should have no trouble in construing the following:…

On December 8, the state of Ohio broke with tradition and killed a condemned prisoner with a single-drug lethal injection – a barbiturate overdose – instead of the 3-drug combo pioneered by Oklahoma…

Just a short note, a record to be precise. Last night the sea water level rose to +1.35 meters above average in the Venice lagoon, in a quite uncharacteristic quarter-moon surge triggered by low…

"Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it."