Premature ovarian failure (POF) is when a woman's ovaries stop working before she is 40.  Missed periods are usually the first sign of POF. Later symptoms may be similar to those of natural…

There was a time a few years ago when the music industry was in the doldrums.   They blamed MP3 piracy, though it made no sense unless you were the kind of person who believes 'jobs saved or…

Improving Biomass Use Efficiency for Semi-Arid Regions Anupam Tewari* and Ashwani Kumar Kautilya Institute of Technology Engineering* Energy Plantation Demonstration Project CentreDepartment of…

I decided to try out one of the new Kindle e-readers. Only, I’m not planning to use it for the purpose that most buyers do — purchasing and reading books. I want to use it to read academic papers,…

It is unfortunate that whenever I have personal stuff to post as a blog here I have nothing else to choose as a tag than the uninformative "random thoughts"... I wish the posting interface in our…

I have to be honest. When I started writing this blog, I didn't anticipate the interest it has garnered from various media outlets. Cool stuff! Here are a few links to check out a recent interview…

Einstein's Theory of relativity is definitely one of those few theories in the history of physics,   that changed the way we see things. It revolutionized the cosmology in such a way that…

Multidisciplinary collaborative research teams are essential in modern day science - climate scientists need to make more accurate numerical models and genome data in biology can be overwhelming and…

Micro air vehicles (MAVs) under development by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research are  on track to evolve into robotic, insect-scale devices for monitoring and exploration of hazardous…

Researchers say they have found 13 genes linked to human body mass. Starting with DNA samples extracted from Icelanders' white blood cells banked in 1991 and 2002 by scientists there as part of the…

We've all enjoyed the spectacular results when glaciers carved their way through the landscape and it seems intuitive that glaciers inhibit mountain growth due to erosion. Not necessarily, say…

To cure global warming we have to trade some acid rain - at least given current battery technology, which uses toxic heavy metals. Obviously, plants have a much better solution and we have written…

Does my space-plunger sound profound?  It isn’t.  That space absorbs energy is confusing talk.  You could desperately try to make it work:  Firstly, the “space-plunger” is not…

What science is not able to achieve on a large commercial scale: develop simple cheap and reproducible method to digest and convert the cellulosic material into ethanol in one step prcess animals do…

While many of the scientists who made atom bombs during the cold war became famous, the men who filmed what happened when those bombs were detonated made up a secret corps. The NY Times gets this one…

While many of the scientists who made atom bombs during the cold war became famous, the men who filmed what happened when those bombs were detonated made up a secret corps. The NY Times gets this one…

A very important new theoretical study appeared yesterday in the hep-ph preprint arxiv. Titled "Precise Predictions on W+4 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider", it is signed by a strong team…

Citing federal powers that apply to the health insurance mandate – the power to regulate interstate commerce and the power to tax – Gostin argues that the health insurance mandate is constitutional.…

Citing federal powers that apply to the health insurance mandate – the power to regulate interstate commerce and the power to tax – Gostin argues that the health insurance mandate is constitutional.…

Women tend to accept the scientific consensus on global warming more than men, according to a study by a Michigan State University researcher. The findings ('The effects of gender on climate change…