A few days ago, I was working at home when the phone rang. I answered, and was surprised to hear a soft, accented voice asking for me. It was Lada Tsokolova, calling from Germany, with the sad news…

Though Cassia consists of large number of plants but during present investigation Cassia senna and Cassia occidentalis were examined.    Cassia senna :- It is known by…

Plants in folk medicines :- Herbs have been used in India since the time immemorial for curing diseases of man and his cattle . During the Vedic period ( 2000 B.C. – 800 B.C. ) ‘ Vrikshayurveda’…

Medicinal plants used in traditional medicinal system India due to its unique variety of geographical and climatic factors had a rich and varied flora of medicinal plants. No wonder that out of a…

In honor of the impending holiday, the LA Times offers up a selection of thirteen "Nightmares from the animal kingdom". No costumed ghouls, ghosts or goblins that may ring your doorbell this Oct. 31…

DNA GENDER CHANGE NOW POSSIBLE BY BMT-RECIPIENT Y CHROMOSOME KNOCKED OUT AND X CHROMOSOME DOUBLED IN HUMANS     It is widely known that the blood karyotype of bone marrow transplant…

How to explain modern belief?    A rising number of people report having no formal religious affiliation but the number of Americans who say they pray has increased, according to a new…

Who on Earth would not like a concrete subject? The Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSH) at MIT studies fundamentals to improve on concrete use. CSH also stands for calcium silicate hydrate, the…

Where does one draw the boundary between science and politics? Here in Dear Old Blighty, our Home Secretary has just sacked his chief drugs adviser over this very issue. If you care to read the…

From a news story in today's issue of Science: A new study finds little evidence for leaks in the U.S. pipeline for producing native-born scientists except for a steep drop in the percentage of the…

Harvard Magazine excerpts Louis Menand on "Professionalization in the academy. If you're thinking of going to graduate school, you need to read this. This is the premise behind academic scholarship:…

Many of you have probably heard about the Governator’s playing with steganography — specifically, an acrostic: Of course, everyone’s buzzing about whether it could possibly have been accidental, as…

Way back when, there was an excellent film loop called "Powers of 10".  Created by Charles and Ray Eames, it can now be found at the conveniently-named powersof10.com website.  The video is…

 Has evolution selected the best possible features for the species existing nowadays, or has it  done a second-hand job with whatever was available? We all have in mind that evolution from…

A new species of dinosaur, an ankylosaur, that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana has been described by paleontologists writing in the Canadian Journal of…

Two letters to Nature today burst into data about a gamma-ray burst, GRB 090423. The first is A -ray burst at a redshift of z  8.2 by N. R. Tanvir et al. The second is GRB…

"Climate forcing due to aerosol changes is a wild card," concluded James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Andrew Lacis, and Valdar Oinas in Global warming in the twenty-first century: An…

I need to call my broker and get in on some Arm&Hammer stock, because, according to Steve Levitt, we're going to need a lot of base: Of course, ocean acidification is an import issue. Now, there…

Halloween is on the horizon, and even the most analytical-minded among us can find ourselves getting pulled into stories of unexplained spooky phenomena and paranormal activity. Science has so far…

You've never seen anything like these photos. No one has. The captivating pictures show adult sperm whales feasting on a rare* giant squid. The coolest part of this story is not that someone saw…