• Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective? To compare the…

·     Biofuels offer clear advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but do they perform better when we look at all the environmental impacts from a life cycle perspective? To…

Sanganer the world famous printing industry and hand paper industry has totally polluted the water of famous town of Sanganer Jaipur Behind the colourful bedsheets , skirts , and dress material there…

Its people who can fight and control the climate  change and carbon and pollution levels and not the Governments as they dont create pollution Its greed of the people , greed of the heavy…

Carl Sagan conjectured that early diurnal mammals feasted on the eggs of nocturnal dinosaurs. He remarked whimsically that a modern breakfast of chicken eggs is among the few relics of our immemorial…

A couple of years ago, Dr. Kubodera, who has a remarkable talent for filming large, unusual squid underwater, got some footage of Taningia danae. This octopoteuthid squid is notable for a) being…

Let me describe two very different academic careers.I. Dr. X chose a Ph.D. advisor with a reputation for being not very demanding. Now Dr. X’s every effort is aimed at maximizing his publication…

Look what's happening in Britain!  I have just been reading a newspaper article:  Climate change belief given same legal status as religion  which starts: An executive has won the…

So, back in the 60's, I had a weather changing machine that was, in essence, a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser." Now this "laser"  is used ubiquitously for everything from…

An elevator to space? No, this isn't a reprise of Charlie and Chocolate Factory. As I mentioned in a blog back in January, an elevator into space is the end goal - a 100,000 km long tether anchored…

I recently read, in one of the posts, the following statement. "Evolution is not fair, economics is not fair." http://www.science20.com/news_articles/chemical_engineer_solves_capitalism_problem I'm…

"The yield of muon pairs decreased rapidly from 1 GeV to the kinematic limit of nearly 6 GeV with the exception of a curious shoulder near 3GeV. The measurement of muons was by range as determined by…

MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a…

Discussion on R&D needs in Jatropha and need or possibility for an EU role. First Hans-Joerg.Lutzeyer lined out the reasons why the EU might be interested to link or to support R&D activities…

1. The Jatropha plant; 2. The Jatropha activities (1987 – 2007) of Mr. Henning; 3. High yielding plants; 4. Ecology Aspects; 5. Economic Aspects; The objective of the presentation of Mr. Henning,…

The use of natural products with therapeutic properties is as ancient as human civilization and these natural products are the foundation of preventing and curing diseases. Numerous present day…

Pharmacognosy of Chlorophytum tuberosum Family Liliaceae This is a genus of two hundred species and twelve are native to India. These are rhizomatous herbs and roots fascicled, often thick fleshy…

Pharmacognosy of Calotropis procera Botanical Origin : Calotropis procera ( Ait.) R.Br. Family : Asclepiadaceae Arka, an important drug of Ayurveda is known in this country from the earliest time.…

Pharmacognostical characterization of some selected medicinal plants. History of Pharmacognosy: In the early period primitive man went in search of food and ate at random plants or parts of plants…

Female water striders don't like the bad boys and they don't even have to reach the age of 30 before they wise up about choices in males. Water striders are those insects commonly seen skittering…