March 19th - all of you should mark this day on your dairy. This is going to be the day when the moon is going to be nearest to the earth that you will be facing on this earth and am lucky to be alive to grab this opportunity, if the clouds do not fail to take a memorable picture of the moon being t...
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Well, this is going to sound too familiar and there is no point in me taking more time pen down not one, not two, but three ctalycsm that Japan is facing following what the Japanese Prime Minister initially thought was a crises following the Richter 9.0 earthquake in Japan, after 140 years, actually...
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Well, this is going to sound too familiar and there is no point in me taking more time pen down not one, not two, but three ctalycsm that Japan is facing following what the Japanese Prime Minister initially thought was a crises following the Richter 9.0 earthquake in Japan, after 140 years, actually...
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Tsuneyoshi Kuriwa from Rikkyo University along with his colleagues recently reported to The Scientist about their finding on the division of chloroplast that they unlike other organelles in the cell do not divide by splitting, rather divided like the cell by forming a contractile rings made of polyg...
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African and forest elephants have long been debated to be two distinct species, and not variants. African elephants are better known to have the woolly mammoths as their predecessors, while Asian elephants have African elephants. Whether this is true or not is not yet knownbut this is confirmed bas...
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This may sound unusual and to the resentment many of those in the tropics facing the hottest climate, and to those working on the melting polar ice, the news of the second sun is surely not welcoming. Probably, this could add to the bane of the melting ice and reducing the blame on human race.
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Stats, Oh My Gosh! I hate them, they are just meddling with numbers that many use to get the results they want....but that is not the case Stats could be really useful for you to predict and analyse the raw data that you have. Statistics could many a times turn out to be an useful tool to foresee w...
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Extinction is a process in evolution. There has been many facts and evidences with the evolution of earth, life of earth, creation of man and him developing as a social animal via the various archaeological evidences dug from the bottom of the earth.
Extinction is not a terminology as Biosphere...
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A small news tidbit to stir up the furthermore the everlasting two schools of thoughts - is this news worth initiating heated arguments and debates from the communities on science ethics, spiritual beliefs and faith, theories on evolution versus the archeological evidences on the creation of MAN
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Well, as a regular reader of The Scientist, there is no chance for me to miss the results of the "Life Science Innovations Competition For The Year 2010", this being the third annual event for this competition. This year the number of entries increased to a breathtaking total of 60, and the magazin...
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At the first glance, if you were wondering, what is this Science Watch is Then go ahead and read on to find nothing new - I am only talking of the Personal Citation Index and the Impact Factors of Your Published papers. Knowing this, if you are going to think, I have heard more than enough about th...
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With the discovery of the gene that links the allergic response elicited on the skin as eczema and the respiratory allergic trigger, asthma.
This happened in the year October 2005 the first mutation in gene that resulted in the correlation with the common skin disorder, eczema. While the recent ...
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If you are thinking of whether evolution is still going or is there anything to discover, then here is something that we have in front of our eyes! Something that can live only by feeding on poison. Arsenic has been known as one of the best slow poisoning chemical, and you will never forget if you a...
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One of the vital criterion that has been preventing life on all of the other planets, but only on earth is the presence of the life giving gas, Oxygen. Several myths, cartoons and science fiction stories has been revolving around the community of man, while there seemed to be proving some truth in ...
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As the saying goes "Water, Water everywhere but not a single drop to drink!", so now the farming world is facing depletion of two major nutrients required for the plants to grow healthily, nitrogen and phosphorous, while they are also finding an increase in the amount of salt load in the soil, whic...
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If you have a ground breaking discovery then you will undoubtedly land up publishing your paper in Nature and Science. Unfortunately, Nature and Science has also failed to drive citations that builds up your rapport as a researcher in the scientific community, in certain fields of biological science...
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I never got to hear about Daylight Saving Time until I landed in Australia, and had been thinking that this was something that had been initiated in Australia all these days, for to the best of my knowledge, Australia being located in one part of the world that has ozone holes, which in fact, was no...
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Bio films are one of the major hazards that can alleviate the process of establishment, colonization and spread of bacterial infection. This is has been well-known that biofilms could be one of the reasons and a contributing factor for antiobiotic resistance, and in addition, to keep the immune cel...
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"Unscientific America How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future" is a new book by Chris Mooney.
Excerpt
This country features a massive science infrastructure, supported by well over one hundred billion dollars annually in federal funding and sporting a vast network of government la...
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Well, this is going to sound too familiar and there is no point in me taking more time pen down not one, not two, but three ctalycsm that Japan is facing following what the Japanese Prime Minister initially thought was a crises following the Richter 9.0 earthquake in Japan, after 140 years, actually turned into a devastation with the tsunami that followed the aftermath of earthquake tilting the earth by an angle of 4 degree on their axis raising 20 feet high waves, and tossing ships like a toy into the city. Nevertheless, the devastation became a probable destruction with the possibility of nuclear leak for the nuclear tanks could be bursting any moment. Are they ready to get a lending hand in curbing devastation to destruction?
Well, this is going to sound too familiar and there is no point in me taking more time pen down not one, not two, but three ctalycsm that Japan is facing following what the Japanese Prime Minister initially thought was a crises following the Richter 9.0 earthquake in Japan, after 140 years, actually turned into a devastation with the tsunami that followed the aftermath of earthquake tilting the earth by an angle of 4 degree on their axis raising 20 feet high waves, and tossing ships like a toy into the city. Nevertheless, the devastation became a probable destruction with the possibility of nuclear leak for the nuclear tanks could be bursting any moment. Are they ready to get a lending hand in curbing devastation to destruction?