India is divided into several agroclimatic zones which differs in environmental, nutritional and edaphic conditions affecting plant growth and productivity. The Calotropis procera and Calotropis…

One of the cool things about neuroscience is that its validating some theories of psychology and even psychoanalysis. When I wrote The Chemistry of Connection in 2007 and 2008, I made some leaps,…

Scientific Name Cinnamomum verum Presl ( syn C.zeylanicum Bi) Family Lauraceae Used Part Bark Distribution Area A tree native to Sri Lanka and cultivated in South India for its aromatic bark and…

Years back, conversing with a now long-retired dean, I happened to let slip the words “common sense.” He replied, “It’s been a long time since I heard that phrase uttered on this…

A number of stories caught my eye today and I wanted to write about each of them, but did not want to overwhelm the blog list like someone else who shall remain nameless (but happens to play rugby)…

In 1935 one of the founders of modern genetics, J. B. S. Haldane, studied men in London with the blood disease hemophilia and estimated that there would be a one in 50,000 incidence of mutations…

For the drive to Montréal, I borrowed a Tom-Tom GPS device — for fun, really; the way is straightforward. It’s the first time I’ve used one in my car, and I have to say that despite the advantage of…

Today I wish to offer you the figure attached at the bottom of this article, which shows a combination of recent determinations of the rate at which the Tevatron proton-antiproton collisions produce…

Specialists of companies «Trade Club» Ltd and «Sinkopa-K» Ltd Sevastopol, own technology of «Utilization tritium of containing liquid radio-active wastes » based on application of sorbents « Sinkopa»…

A team of researchers say long held beliefs about how stars are formed have been just a myth, and they say this astronomy myth got busted using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO's Parkes radio…

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…

IPL Cs-137 dose point verification using excel spreadsheet. Download here

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...