Scientific Name Myristica fragrans Houtt. Family Myristicaceae Used Part Seeds Distribution Area - In India, it is grown in Madras State (Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Salem, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli,…

Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (Caltech, to you)  says a paradigm shift in planetary exploration is coming - and it involves…

Liquid biofuel support program launched in 1993 in France is implemented through tax exemptions to biofuels produced by agroindustrial chains. Activity levels are fixed by decree and allocated by the…

SOME POTENTIAL PLANTS FOR BIO-ENERGY.   ASHWANI KUMAR AND AMIT KOTIYA Bio-Technology Lab,Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004 Engery Plantation Demonstration project…

A new star is known: CoRoT-7. It is one of the 100,000 stars that were recorded by the COROT satellite in 1,000 days since the December 27, 2006 launch date. Congratulations!   Date: 16…

A new star is known: CoRoT-7. It is one of the 100,000 stars that were recorded by the COROT satellite in 1,000 days since the December 27, 2006 launch date. Congratulations!   Date: 16…

It's World Series time, which means it's time to talk about physics and baseball once again.    This season, among other things, we've covered the farthest homerun ever hit and how fast a…

Nothing happened Tuesday in space science, is the conclusion reached by this researcher. As a hard scientist here at ScientificBlogging, I find interesting topics to write about twice weekly. However…

In looking at the concept of a ghost, the first problem one encounters is defining exactly what is meant by such an apparition.  It seems that the general view over history is that ghosts…

I do believe that a vast majority of men and women are evil and that furthermore we really ought to deal with this fact rather than being politically correct and ‘believing’ that all Men are…

Ocimum genus contains between 50 to 150 species of herbs and shrubs from the tropical regions of Asia (Bailey, 1924 and Darrah 1980). Plants have square stems, fragrant opposite leaves and whorled…

Scientific Name Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Miers. Family Menispermaceae Used Part Stem Distribution Area A large, glabrous, deciduous climbing shrub found throughout tropical India,…

Scientific Name Sesamum indicum Linn. syn. S. orientale Linn. Family Pedaliaceae Used Part Seeds Distribution Area An erect, branched or unbranched annual, 60-180 cm. high, cultivated throughout…

Scientific Name Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) K. Schum. syn E. ganitrus Roxb. Family Elaeocarpaceae Used Part Fruit, seed kernel. Distribution Area Nepal, Bihar, Bengal, Assam, Madhya Pradesh…

Sixth sense or extrasensory perception (ESP) is an ability to perceive the subtle dimension or the unseen world of angels, ghosts, heaven, etc. Sixth sense (ESP) includes the ability tounderstand…

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere". Groucho Marx

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 150 years ago next month, he avoided conjecture…

Virtually every study in the last two years has blamed neighborhoods for obesity rather than the people who eat too much - but living near a variety of restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets…

On Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second. "Petaflop/s" is computer jargon—peta signifying…

Well, it seems that the issue surrounding the runaway balloon has finally been resolved with the entire event being a hoax. Certainly there are many people that are angry and there's much talk about…