Utah's red rocks have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur, Seitaad ruessi, that lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune.…

People who stay mentally sharp into their 80s and beyond challenge the notion that brain changes linked to mental decline and Alzheimer's disease are a normal, inevitable part of aging, say…

Specially medicated contact lenses loaded with vitamin E can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye — where it can treat the disease — almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial…

Protein phosphorylation, the process by which proteins are flipped from one activation state to another, is a crucial function for most living beings, since it controls nearly every cellular process,…

Consumers could soon be paying a lot more for meat, milk, eggs and other farm staples if bad weather withers a U.S. corn crop that is now tethered to grain-intensive renewable fuel mandates, a new…

A new study published in Neuron suggests that our ability to respond with outrage toward people who attempt to harm us is seated in a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC).…

People in developed nations are living as much as a decade longer than their parents did as a result of staying healthy to a more advanced age, according to a new review published in Nature. The…

Some time ago there was tough fight for gases and fuels below the earth. People or companies take possession of natural resources and exploit them at will and Governments get pittance while the…

Some time ago there was tough fight for gases and fuels below the earth. People or companies take possession of natural resources and exploit them at will and Governments get pittance while the…

What started my scientific wondering about popcorn? I was reading press-releases about presentations at the American Chemical Society's 239th meeting happening this week in San Francisco…

I have an issue with the ladies of Hollywood. As a scientist, I find diamond a most useful material, and the way these glitterate use these stones for personal adornment does, I think, only serve to…

A very personal blog posting today. Well, at times it so happens that I feel like writing something about myself... That is the whole purpose of a blog for many, while I, like most of the writers…

Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar as it defines a number of theological doctrines. However, Easter has always been a movable feast which can take place on any date…

I have yet to be bored watching the 27-and-a-half-hour extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy with the kids. It is truly an awe-inspiring cinematic masterpiece. There is, however,…

"To Contribute to Mankind" Dr. Beatrice Hill Tinsley invented the galaxies that I crash. Before I was born, she laid the foundations for the work that changed our view of galaxies as mere bundles of…

Many a times I feel sad that  questions are  being raised about plantation of trees and reducing the global warming.Other day people have pictures of their houses those houses which have…

It's that time of year again... Geek Pop 2010! What is Geek Pop, you may ask? From the website: "Geek Pop is a free online music festival featuring artists inspired by science. Every year, we bring…

Someday, when man knows the sublevel picutre thoughts of his mind that makes his mind operate he will be privilaged to know what old autistics like me have figured out:our mind. If man could hook…

Scientists have development of a new carbon dating method to determine the age of mummies,  artwork, and other relics without damaging them.  Presenting at the National Meeting of the…

Feeling optimistic may actually help you maintain your health, say psychologists writing in Psychological Science. The authors claim they have found "the first evidence that changes in optimistic…