HIGH FREQUENCY MULTIPLE SHOOT REGENERATION FROM TISSUE CULTURES OF ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS NEETU VIJAY AND ASHWANI KUMAR* Plant Biotechnology Lab, Department of…

From: Sreenivas Ghatty (gs@treeoilsindia.com) Sent: 23 November 2009 22:23PM To: Sreenivas Ghatty (gs@treeoilsindia.com) Biofuels have a limited role in India due to land limitation and food…

As the world's oceans warm, they are absorbing less carbon dioxide, a new study in the November 25 issue of Geophysical Research Letters has found.  With the oceans currently absorbing over 40…

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab demonstrates…

 An international team of researchers probing the nerve-insulating myelin sheath have uncovered how mutations affect the structure of myelin, a focal point of research in multiple sclerosis and…

It's well known that young girls are very self-conscious about their bodies, but it may not be because of the unrealistically thin Disney characters they see on TV, as is often assumed. A new study…

The recent financial meltdown was perhaps the biggest economic crisis since the great depression, and a team of economists says that current macroeconomic models used to diagnose and treat the causes…

The first large black holes in the universe likely grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away,…

JATROPHA CURCAS: HIGH YIELDIG ACCESSIONS AND IMPROVEMENT. Ashwani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany University of…

The stock market is full of surprises. It is constantly going up and going down, or sometimes staying constant. The market is the backbone of all major corporations, and determinds wherther the…

EMBARGOED until: 24 November 2009 00:01 GMT ‘COSMIC SLOT MACHINE’ MATCHES GALAXY COLLISIONS A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a ‘cosmic slot machine’ and…

An article entitled "Children unaffected by smoking ban consequences" points to a new study indicating that children's exposure to second hand smoke is unaffected by the smoking ban in Wales. We…

My blog is not a place for hot-off-the-press news - in it you are more likely to find discussions on material well digested and thought over. Nevertheless, I do not have the guts to sit on today's…

Speaking of cirrate octopods (as I have been recently), BBC News In Pictures: Monsters of the deep is strongly dominated by a cirrate octopus! Yay! Three of the eight photos feature Grimpoteuthis:…

“Come on into the hot tub,” I told my three year old boy. But he wouldn’t budge. No way was he joining his older sister in there. “It’s warm, and it feels nice!” I urged, “There’s nothing to be…

Being a graduate student in particle physics is a tough, stressful job. I know it because I once was one, and I still remember the burden of giving exams, carrying on single-handedly a difficult…

Obituary Prof. Dr. Karl-Herrmann Neumann passed away on October 13th 2009. He was born on a farm in Morgendorf near Leitmeritz, now part of Chech Republic. In 1945 his family was transferred to…

   

 After years of stagnation in climate policy for transport, there have been a number of important developments over the last twelve months. Notably, policymakers have begun to get to grips with…

While your co-geeks may out this as a simple math trick, most people unable to recite pi past the decimal point will be amazed. It also has the advantage of requiring almost no physical, sleight-of…