Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles are found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint and vitamins, and have caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a study conducted by…

Whether you're a liberal or a libertarian, it's generally accepted across the political spectrum that, in some form, the opportunity to make a lot of money drives the economic recessions and…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene, FoxJ1, that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing neurons. The research is a significant advance in…

A study published today in Nature Geoscience says that increasing atmospheric CO2 emissions continue to outstrip the world's natural ability to absorb carbon and claim that drastic cuts in fossil…

Plant genetic transformation and molecular markers By Ashwani Kumar Pointer Publishers Jaipur India pp 288 ISBN 978-81-7132-613-6 The last three decades have seen momentous developments in plant…

Biotechnology for food, health and environment Ashwini Kumar Department of Botany University of Rajasthan Jaipur 302004. biotechnology has been increasingly applied to crop agriculture. The…

"What should be the role and focus of biotechnology in the agricultural research agendas of developing countries?" 1. Introduction The second conference to be hosted in the year 2002 by the FAO…

The Associated Press, that bastion of scientific knowledge, shares with us a list of "pests that are benefiting or could benefit from global warming", starting with: _Ticks that transmit Lyme disease…

Today CNN features a short video with an interview to Professor Nielsen, the mastermind behind the whole "Higgs comes back from the future to prevent its own creation" crap.  I wrote about the…

Thursday, September 10, 2009 Yes work will be good for you. Some times "we" think too much. I know I do. Instead of living in the moment we project our fears into the future and create a reality…

Friday, October 16, 2009 Consciousness and the brain - my response to you tube's "Quantum Phyics" welcome to the martrix Bill A Peoples October 16 at 4:08pm AFTER SPELL CHECK LOL--- Max Planck…

The “Om” from you tube is profoundly pleasant. I agree with the traditions, thoughts and expressions presented here. Obviously based on Sanskrit’s from Buddhism and Hinduism I still agree with the…

No one draws pictures of heads with little gears or hydraulics inside any more. The modern conceptualization of the brain is firmly computational. The brain may be wet, squooshy, and easy to serve…

What is the most important object physicists manipulate everyday? My answer with no hesitation is : the Lagrangian ! What is it? simply the object that contain everything one need to know about a…

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The Gallup…

No fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated extermination of its inhabitants. - Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle Read the feed:

They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research. See more excellence at xkcd.

The metric system rocks, right? And that's because it's an organic system of measure, derived directly from the circumference of the earth, right? And hasn't been subject to any malingering,…

Last May the CDF collaboration published their observation of the  baryon, a particle made by a very exotic "bss" quark triplet. The CDF result came almost one year after a similar measurement…

Despite widespread educational efforts aimed at helping the public make healthy choices, it's understood among experts that people often fail to comply with the advice offered by their doctors and…