BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA ABSTRACT The state of Rajasthan is situated…

Climbers and twinners: Cocculus pendulus (Forst.) Diels.; Celastrus paniculata Willd.; Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers.; Blastania fimbristipula (Fensl.) Kotschy et Peyr.; Citrullus colocynthis…

In an earlier article titled What is Life?, I took the reader through a reasoning process to finally arrive at the conclusion that, contrary to general expectation, finding a definition of life is…

I don't know what it says about me that I love this stuff. Probably nothing good. Perhaps Weird Al Yankovic could do a rendition of CCR's Fortunate Son. Some folks are born to test emission…

A friend, John Kovalic, once quipped "I now have more social networks than I have friends."  So for today, a trio of social media webtoons.  The first is Cat and Girl, the other two are…

David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought…

United Nations is playing key role in planning and development of bio-energy programmes at the global level. FAO’s bioenergy programme bases its operations on the following concepts: a) bioenergy…

    In a column posted a few days ago (November 1) I mentioned that my friend John Evans, a Cambridge (England) mathematician, has developed a general formula for estimating biocomplexity.…

Will the $ 1,000,000 Randi Challenge Prize soon be awarded? The prize, administered by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), is offered to anyone who can prove in scientifically controlled…

Will the $ 1,000,000 Randi Challenge Prize[http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html] soon beawarded? The prize, administered by the James RandiEducational Foundation (JREF), is offered…

Did someone mention Elvis? This research made the cover of ACS's Journal of Physical Chemistry in color.    The diatomic cyanide ion CN− is released sometimes by the chemical compounds…

• 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…