The gulf oil spill

The gulf oil spill

The gulf oil spill

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Breakthrough in quest to boost rice yields - environment - 24 May 2010 - New Scientist

Breakthrough in quest to boost rice yields - environment - 24 May 2010 - New Scientist: "If any crop needs an evolutionary boost, it's rice. Nearly half of humanity relies on the stuff, and yields must increase more than 50 per cent by 2050 to feed growing demand, so the discovery of a gene mutation that can bump up yields by a full 10 per cent is exciting news."

CultureLab: A physicist finds God in cosmic harmonies

CultureLab: A physicist finds God in cosmic harmonies: "In The Purpose-Guided Universe, Haisch makes his case for a physical cosmos that is deity-driven. The principal piece of evidence he uses is the apparent fine-tuning of the laws of physics for us to be here."

HowStuffWorks "10 Science Experiments That Changed the World"

HowStuffWorks "10 Science Experiments That Changed the World": "In 2007, the United States spent $368 billion on research and development, according to the National Science Foundation. Nearly 18 percent of that enormous pie went to fund basic research -- the kind driven by a scientist's curiosity or interest in a scientific question."

Dahlias

Dahlias

Dahlias

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Beautiful Flowers

Wonder lust: The Great Stalacpipe Organ - environment - 11 April 2010 - New Scientist

Wonder lust: The Great Stalacpipe Organ - environment - 11 April 2010 - New Scientist: "CAVES are disorientating at the best of times, especially ones as baroque as Luray caverns, deep beneath Virginia's Shenandoah valley. But as you descend underground, past Titania's Veil (a gleaming white calcite formation), crossing Giant's Hall and skirting the mirror surface of Dream Lake, you will hear an ethereal music start to fill the dripping hush. Soon it feels as if you are standing inside a marimba made of stone, in a setting designed by Salvador Dalí. The songs seem to come from all around, as if the cavern itself were singing."

Indigenous cryogenic technology to power latest ISRO satellite - Yahoo! India News

Indigenous cryogenic technology to power latest ISRO satellite - Yahoo! India News: "Nearly 18 years after Indian space scientists began working on it and over a decade after the technology was denied to India by the US, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to send into space a rocket powered by indigenously developed cryogenic technology."