Many have contemplated the interrelatedness of oil and war, and this thought has been outweighed perhaps by more interpersonal matters at home.  Jerry Warner and P.W. Singer's 'Fueling the…

A small molecule known as 125B11 but also called Fatostatin and reportedly having both anti-fat and anti-cancer abilities is also a literal turnoff for fat-making genes, according to a new report in…

If you studied the basics of human anatomy, you probably know that females are born with their entire lifetime's supply of eggs and once they're gone, they're gone.    New findings by…

    In December of 2006, two coinciding events occurred.  Saddam Hussein's death was youtubed and Bill Gates published an article in Scientific American called "A Robot in Every…

This summer I discovered a new (to me) literary genre: post-war British Sci-Fi. The decades after WWII were (not surprisingly) rather rough on the Brits, and the zeitgeist found an interesting outlet…

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Informed consent is tricky business because there are disagreements about what informed consent can mean outside the country of the company conducting the trial and people will grant a lot of consent…

Circadian rhythms are 24-hour cycles in various biological processes like core body temperature, melatonin synthesis and sleep–wake behavior.   They are synchronized most strongly by the light…

Obesity has increased dramatically in the last two decades, yet so have awareness campaigns saying appearance does not matter.    The cultural miasma is hardest on its youngest members and…

"It is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes"(From a sentence attributed to Josef Stalin) With a thought to Middle Eastern elections...

For the past few days I've been fiddling with a set of data that measure the effects of single nucleotide changes on an organism's phenotype across a variety of environments and genetic backgrounds.…

Scientific Name B. monosperma (Lam.) Taub. syn. B. frondosa  Koenig ex Roxb.   Family   Fabaceae  (Papilionaceae )   Used Part  Fruit pieces   Distribution…

Ginseng Araliaceae Panax pseudoginseng Wall. Family Araliaceae is a very rare 30-60 cm tall erect herb distributed in the interior temperate mountainous regions of Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal and China,…

Steaming To SuccessA hundred year old steam car speed record has just been broken by a British team.  Edward’s Air Force Base, California: Tuesday August 25th: Today at 8.19am (California time)…

Scientists are often assumed to be obsessed by definitions. After all, if you cannot precisely define a concept, say what a planet is, or what a biological species is, you literally don’t…

P. pseudoginseng Wall. A very rare 30-60 cm tall erect herb distributed in the interior temperate mountainous regions of Sikkim,  Bhutan, Nepal and China, recorded in the Western Himalayas from…

L. syn. A. barbadensis Mill. is a perennial, herbaceous and succulent species which belongs to the family Liliaceae. It is a short-stemmed plant bearing fleshy, mucilaginous leaves. The margin of the…

Researchers from NIST and the University of Maryland have found what they say is a simple method of sandwiching organic molecules between silicon and metal, two materials fundamental to electronic…

Worried that your cold revenge plans won't come to fruition before you shake off that mortal coil?  A new Web site, www.DeathRiskRankings.com, developed by researchers and students at Carnegie…

In 2007, advertisements talking about how much money you could make sitting on your butt if you would just BUY THEIR SECRET were at least interesting.     We got tales of people making…