Biomass utilization for food, fuels and chemicals. Biomass : Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from…

The word on the street is that Jesus is pretty t'd off at NASA.1 What mortal sin2 did the space agency allegedly commit? The non-biological reproduction of an RNA component in a laboratory, of course…

Please visit this site, and watch a ten seconds video which is very aggressive in its crude substance: during the time you watch it, two children die of hunger. There are in the world today a…

Energy is fungible and nothing is certain but death and taxes. All energy is like all other energy and interchangeable through one means or another.  But, all energy is not created…

It doesn't get much better than strung-out spiders and a white dude using ghetto slang. And Canada. Two caveats: one, you may want to watch this out of hearing from impressionable young children. It…

I found the premise of Barbara Bradley Hagerty's new book "Fingerprints of God" quite intriguing.  The author, raised as a Christian Scientist, attempts to look into alternative religions and…

It's hard to make a good cartoon cephalopod, I guess. Yesterday I was disappointed about the Squidbillies. Tomorrow I may despair of Spongebob's pal Squidward. Today, I sigh over Nemo's little…

The concept of altruism, a selfless concern for the welfare of others, a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious traditions,  has long been debated in…

Since January 2008, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index surveys 1,000 Americans every day. LIVESCIENCE published today a list in The Well-Being of 50 U.S. States from a study of…

There have been many discussions relating to transhumanism and augmenting intelligence as well as just intelligence itself.  However, at the heart of many of these discussions the subject of…

Bioprocess engineering The large scale plant cell and tissue cultures have been considered as an alternative source of biochemicals over the last 40 years. Routien and Nickel received the first…

Metabolism in Plant tissue cultures and its industrial applications in the era of genetic manipulations. Humans have been manipulating the genetic makeup of agricultural plants (and animals) for…

Predicted growth in world population is posing a serious challenge to crop production and food security, particularly in developing countries. The augmentation of conventional breeding with the…

Biodegradation of phenol by oxygenase producing thermophilic microorganisms Neetika Mathur1*, Vinod Kumar Nigam2, Ashwani Kumar1 and Purnendu ghosh2 1 Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan,…

A little known fact about quantum mechanics is that it disproves God's omniscience. Now, we all know that a watched pot never boils. What does this have to do with God's omniscience? Well, did you…

We soak up the breathtaking views after a long morning's paddle. The east and south sides of our route are bound by the imposing white peaks of the Cariboo Mountains, the northern boundary of the…

*Laws that should be formally on the books but sadly are only known in the collective Geek conscious. Matt Blum of Wired writes, "There are many, many laws having nothing to do with government, that…

Scientific Name Rhododendron anthopogon D. Don Family Ericaceae Used Part Stem, leaves, and buds. Distribution Area It is a small, aromatic, shrubby plant found in the Himalayas from Kashmir to…

Scientific Name Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth.( C. cajan (Linn.) Millsp. syn.C. indicus Spreng.) Family Fabaceae Used Part Seeds Distribution Area Cultivated nearly throughout India up to an altitude…

While today we're pretty darned certain there is no intelligent life on Mars, in the early 20th century, it was still an open question.  So-- about four decades before the publically known…