PM Manmohan Singh, Wen may skip Copenhagen Nitin Sethi, TNN 14 December 2009, 06:00am ISTText Size:|Topics:Kyoto greenhouse COPENHAGEN: At 55 degrees and 43 minutes north, the winter sun sets early…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. & BELLINGHAM, Wash. - (Business Wire) The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, headquartered in Bellingham,…

A small segment of scientists are not in favor of skepticism; primarily if it happens to be in their discipline.   But a group of cancer researchers welcomes it and asks for even more. Writing…

India resists pressure to go beyond Kyoto protocol COPENHAGEN: India has opposed any amendment to the Kyoto protocol at the Copenhagen Climate meet as the EU pushed for an agreement that is "broader"…

Climate talks: India against amending Kyoto Protocol Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Sun, Dec 13 05:04 PM Betwa Sharma Copenhagen, Dec 13 (PTI) India…

You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don't know the other players, you can't see them, and you can't communicate with them. The game you are in is called 'Greed!', and is…

New nanosensors can measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time, according to an article Nature Nanotechnology, and that could dramatically simplify the way physicians test for…

The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere and probably its oceans did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University of…

Creativity seems to be the "buzz word" of the 2000s. Society values it, companies need it, and employers want it. Or do they? What society claims to want and what is actually rewarded in practice are…

Found this article in Dissent magazine interesting: "Is Obama's War in Afghanistan Just?" by Michael Walzer. The core of Walzer's argument is that the decision to go to war inAfghanistan in 2001 was…

Scientific Name Baliospermum montanum (Willd.) Muell. Family Euphorbiaceae Used Part Root Distribution Area Distributed almost throughout India from Kashmir eastwards to Arunachal Pradesh, up…

Scientific Name Nardostachys grandiflora DC. (=N. jatamansi DC.) Family Valerianaceae Used Part Rhizome Distribution Area Found in the alpine Himalayas from Punjab to Sikkim and Bhutan, at…

Scientific Name Berberis aristata Family Berberidaceae Used Part Gum Distribution Area It is found in Nepal. Common Uses . It is one of the chief sources of the drug (rasaut ) sold in the…

UN climate chief sees progress on clean tech deal Copenhagen: UN climate talks are making progress on sharing green technologies but rich nations need to offer deeper cuts in carbon emissions by 2020…

Hint- It's not the obvious one. Here is the question:What is the number one reason men give for cheating on their partner? a) Primarily sexual dissatisfactionb) Other/ no dissatisfactionc) Equal…

What's new at COP15 in Copenhagen 11-Dec-2009 In the main atrium of the Bella Center is a huge globe, a few meters in diameter with countries painted in black on the white surface. Many people use…

Instead of talk on GLOAL WARMING my secretary by mistake sent the speech on TEXTILE EXPORT . I hope you don’t mind if I talk about that. Copenhangen might be next destination of all talks and no…

December 8 SPIEGEL ONLINE has two articles posted on skulls. The former covers a stone age mystery in a town called Herxheim in Germany. We read a graphic description of…

Back in August, I gave a talk at the Pacific AAAS meeting explaining why research scientists need to blog. After a long delay to put my incomprehensible notes in to readable (but still somewhat…

People who like sausage and people who trust 3-sigma peaks should not ask how these are made. T.D.