Law And Science : The Injustice Of Confessions Confession may be good for the soul, but it is, I submit, positively harmful to the establishment of scientific truth in any legal venue.  It is a…

"There is, in my opinion, no doubt that by the time we are ready to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson, the whole world will know it". James Gillies, Head of Communications at CERN,…

An article entitled "Can Robots Make Ethical Decisions" was recently published wherein the authors claim that they have successfully modeled difficult moral problems in computer logic, further…

Reading pervades every aspect of our daily lives, so much so that one would be hardpressed to find a room in a modern house without words written somewhere inside. Many of us now read more sentences…

Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary, died of complications from her leukemia treatment at age 72. You probably know the 1960s folk trio's songs, If I Had a Hammer, Lemon Tree, John Denver's Leaving…

A few days ago there was worry that a British movie about Darwin was too religiously radioactive to find a US distributor. That seemed a little odd - the US has no shortage of movies that offend…

The universe is in a continuous change. A change n gets transformed into a change n+1, the change n+1 into a change n+2 and so on. Clocks measure a frequency, velocity and numerical order of change.…

FROM SPACE-TIME TO TIMELESS QUANTUM SPACE   Amrit S. Sorli sorli.bistra@gmail.com, Scientific Research Centre BISTRA, Ptuj, Slovenia   Abstract   The universe is in a continuous…

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18th, 2009,  will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), developed by…

A 9-foot dinosaur excavated illegally from northeastern China and purchased by a private collector who brought it to the attention of paleontologists (hey, they'll return it after they're done) …

If you want to create a micro-aircraft that flies with the maneuverability and energy efficiency of an insect (and you know you do) decoding the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight is key because…

Scientists have observed ferromagnetism in an atomic gas for the first time, addressing the decades-old question of whether gases could show properties similar to a magnet made of iron or nickel. A…

Discussion Questions from class: 1) Realists argue that states are the principal actor in the international system. Is that as true today as it was in earlier times? Why or why not? 2)Do you agree…

Scientific Name Chenopodium album Linn. Family Chenopodiaceae Used Part Seeds. Distribution Area An erect herb, up to 3.5 m in height, found wild up to an altitude of 4,700 m, and cultivated…

There is new evidence that the solar wind has stripped away significant quantities of water from Venus.   The SPICAV and VIRTIS instruments carried by the Venus Express spacecraft have been used…

Scientific Name Cannabis sativa Linn. ( syn Cannabis indica L.) Family Cannabinaceae Used Part Leaves, flowers Distribution Area A annual occurring wild throughout the western Himalayas, and is…

Influence of salinity on RuBiSCo and PEP case contents and / or activity in Maize Hypothesis: 1. The content and specific activity of RuBISCO and PEPC may be influenced due to salinity. 2.…

Chloroplasts are the major site for the production of various sugars and sugar alcohols. However their number in cells has been found to be regulated by the sugars themselves in presence of…

Whether the inhibition of RuBISCO or PEPC activity is due to reduction of amount or activity of enzymes and what is the role of other factors in protection of this. The importance of altered…

Salt stress is one of the major constrains that limits crop productivity worldwide ( Boyer, 1982, Queseda and Ponce 2000 ) . Agricultural productivity in many aird and semi-arid regions of the world…