Growth and productivity of Jatropha curcas under semi arid conditions . ASHWANI KUMAR Engery Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Bio…

So, I told you that I have an odd job. Though I’m a veterinarian, I work at a large human medical center, behind the scenes, in the animal laboratories. Few of my friends are scientists or medical…

If the question were asked, what is the primary purpose of business, the most likely response would be "to make money".  However, this is an unsatisfactory answer since it clearly doesn't…

Okay, even though nobody commented on my post about the Ocean Bloggers Challenge (funding marine science for classrooms in need), enough donations have accrued to completely fund one of the projects:…

For those who enjoyed our first set of bacteria art images, you will definitely want to check out Microbial Art. www.microbialart.com

For those who enjoyed our first set of bacteria art images, you will definitely want to check out Microbial Art. www.microbialart.com

Mariano Crociata: a name, a promise. The general secretary of CEI (the Italian Episcopal Conference) secures a spot in the front page of Italian newspapers today by declaring that pharmacists in…

There are myriad reasons why pharmaceutical treatments are ineffective in certain people, but the first suspect is typically not the patient him- or herself. An article published in the November 1…

In the grand tradition of plotting things to make them interesting, we have (from the excellent webtoon Indexed), Pancakes from space: Ironically, NASA didn't invent tang, teflon or ziplock, though…

Terry Zink, a spam-fighter at Microsoft, recently blogged about remembering passwords. His problem, a problem most of us share, is how to strike a balance between using distinct passwords for…

Gasification: INTRODUCTION Biomass is one of the main available source of renewable energy. Its thermochemical upgrading can be performed in gasification (in the presence of air, O2, steam) or in…

In 2002, fossil fuels supplied 86 percent of the energy consumed in the United States. We also imported over half of the petroleum we used and we project that our dependency will continue to grow.…

Antidepressants are ineffective in fully 50% of the people who take them.   It is clearly early 20th century medicine, where you keep trying things and hope something happens while…

Prenatal sex-based biological differences extend to genetic expression in cerebral cortices and the differences in question are probably associated with later divergences in how our brains develop,…

A fine question! As is so often the case in science, the answer is both yes and no, depending on what kind of squid you are. Squid come in two metaphorical flavors: Myopsida and Oegopsida. They are…

You read right his "mad" idea is simply that electromagnetic fields effect the formation and evolution of cyclones.  What they proposed and measured in the paper, "Electromagnetic fields…

Ready for another turn into National-Enquirer mode of particle physics reporting ? I have a figure to discuss. It is a result now a few months old, but one which received little attention -less than…

Today, while thrift-shopping, I found an important component for our satellite building. Yes, it's a rolling trunk, and I'll admit it's not the most exciting science prop.  But there are four…

Science and art aren't mutually exclusive. You can demonstrate scientific concepts artistically, and sometimes even physics can be phun. Take, for example, Sir Isaac's Loft, a feature in the Franklin…

If you lived in 1844 and were a follower of American Baptist preacher William Miller, today would forever be marked as "The Great Disappointment." The world was expected to come to an end on this…