Since the man came to present form the countries originated around the globe and within a span of 50 years the number of member of United Nations has increased in several dozens in a span of 40…

Ayurvedic medicines are basically derived from the Vedic literature and plants of family Fabaceae have special importance in the Ayurvedic medicines.The family Fabaceae popularly known as legumes, is…

I grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. There is a National Bison Range located on the reservation where a herd of buffalo literally roam. Chains of mountains line the valley…

Cosmology has been crossing my transom.  I've been getting press releases from the new online Journal of Cosmology.  Below is a sample.  They have a respectible team and, frankly, a…

CASSIA SENNA LINN. Botanical name :- Cassia senna Linn. Var. senna syn.Cassia acutifolia Delile ; Cassia angustifolia Vahl . Common name in Hindi :- Bhuikhakhasa , Hindisana . Common name in English…

There can be no ideal person but there can be ideal ideas. Only one thing that a writer needs is ideas. They may or may not be ideal. Ideas get a Nobel Prize if written in the proper manner. …

Scientists know that time passes faster at higher elevations.  It's a curious aspect of Einstein's theories of relativity that previously had to be measured by comparing clocks on the Earth's…

It may seem like a waste of time that young people play video games for hours on end but, at least for some, it may help them in surgery one day.   A new study says reorganization of the…

Water-gel-based solar devices, what researchers liken to "artificial leaves", can act like solar cells to produce electricity, bringing technology a bit closer to solar cells that more closely mimic…

Eyes speak volumes but words don’t. Words are words and carry no weight . Look into the eyes and find the solutions. Many a times we go by words but time tells words have no meaning at least of some…

Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology Basics and Application Series: Principles and Practice Neumann, Karl-Hermann, Kumar, Ashwani, Imani, Jafargholi 2009, IX, 333 p. 153 illus.,…

Mainly two types of RNA viz coding RNA and non-coding RNA were recognised. Although 90 percent of the genome is transcribed but only a small fraction i.e. 1.5 percent transcribed RNA is used for…

Recently scientists have discovered that a little molecule called Triclosan can help us eradicate a condition that affects 2 billion people around the world (we are only 6.7 billion total right?). A…

Katy Perry did a duet with Sesame Street character Elmo but you won't get to see it on television.   Too much cleavage, determined the folks at Sesame Workshop.    Obviously, a company…

Katy Perry did a duet with Sesame Street character Elmo but you won't get to see it on television.   Too much cleavage, determined the folks at Sesame Workshop.    Obviously, a company…

Recently Scientists have figured that Malagasy spiders spin world’s toughest biological material (link to the full article given below). There was another article on the secret of oysters…

Simple answer: Just don't be there in the first place. I am currently on fieldwork on Santorini, which does involve a fair bit of walking from outcrop to outcrop. Walking past deposits from the last…

It’s managed to stay out of the general press, mostly — probably because it’s geeky, it’s hard to explain what it really means, and it’s not likely to affect anything any time soon — but the tech…

Despite time is a scarce resource for me these days, and my "working time balance" shows deep red, I am presently spending some of it to investigate a very interesting statistical effect of general…

If you get an injury, you might clench your hand.  It turns out there is a brain-related reason for that,  namely a somatosensory body one.   Perception and multisensory interactions…