Researchers say they have discovered how to transform human embryonic stem cells into germ cells, the embryonic cells that ultimately give rise to sperm and eggs, an advance that will allow…

Asimo:The Most Advanced Scientific Robot!!!Lets watch a video!! Hey, but did you know that Asimo can sometimes can't climb up the stairs?Watch this video!!!!

You've heard of the Discovery Channel - if you want to learn about sharks, they're the place to go.   Heck, they even whacked me this summer as part of their promotional campaign. Unfortunately,…

A LiveScience article entitled "Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans" raises several questions of which many are simply the quest for details regarding origins and migrations.  However, there…

A recent article addressed the issue of children being frightened of costumed characters and some of the other fears they might experience.  In some cases, this fear escalated into a phobia.…

Beauty can't hide! Flower gardens exist in our vast oceans. Fishermen have long noted colored fish and coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. The flower gardens banks consist of coral-capped…

The squid family Ommastrephidae includes my favorite Humboldt squid, along with a lot of other big-time commercial fishery species. How do they sustain the largest invertebrate fisheries in the world…

After yesterday's cliffhanger, I suppose I should explain what it means for a squid to fly. Can they control their aerial trajectory? Can they gain altitude, once airborne, which is the definition of…

 Future Prospects of BIOMASS FOR ENERGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Ashwini Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Centre Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004.…

IS THE MIND UNIQUE FOR EACH PERSON?   Ayad Gharbawi   October 24, 2009 – Damascus     When we ask ‘who am I’? let us say, that we are asking the question with the view that we are…

SAD OF THE EARTH Ayad Gharbawi As thinking creatures we must evolve mentally towards achieving a humanity within ourselves for whereas physical growth proceeds unguided mental growth requires a…

Scientific Name Cassia fistula Linn. Family Caesalpiniaceae (Fabaceae) Used Part Root. Distribution Area A deciduous medium-sized tree, occurring in deciduous forests throughout the…

Speaking of cephalopods which have surprised by not being too heavy to fly after all, I was reminded of one little cuttlefish who is actually too heavy to swim: Metasepia pfefferi, or Pfeffer's…

STRATEGIES FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS. A. Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Bio-Technology Lab…

Genetically modified foods (GM foods or GMF) offer a way to quickly improve crop characteristics such as yield, pest resistance, or herbicide tolerance, often to a degree not possible with…

One of my favorite lines from The Big Bang Theory. Doonidesigns at Zazzle.

What is in a name? Juliet, you may have a point - a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,Retain that dear perfection which he owesWithout that title.…

My statistics page depressingly shows that a large fraction of readers who visit this site do so for an average of 30 seconds. Maybe they were looking for something different, or maybe they do not…

NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has captured more than one thousand discrete sources of gamma rays in its first year, including a measurement that provided experimental evidence about the very…

The performative and improvisatory aspects of music compares favorably with the temporal, polyphonic aspects of scholarly research,  says University of Illinois professor of education Liora…