Several Italian scientists may be charged later this year with manslaughter over the deaths of 308 people who died in and around l'Aquila in 2009.  Is this reasonable? I wanted to write about…

During cosmic inflation, the universe's volume doubles only about 260 times. Not much, but still, if this happens during an amazingly short time duration Δt, it would be an amazingly fast process.…

A young fisherman in a distant past looks across the sea and ponders: "What an unimaginably big stretch of water!" He has no idea where it ends or even if it ends. But he knows one thing: over time…

A few days ago, while talking about mundane business issues, I learned that today, August 19th, was the birthday of that famous childhood delight, the 'black cow', what would later be called a root…

The human genome is the home of over 3 billion nucleotide base pairs packaged into 23 chromosome pairs. But despite the tremendous size of the human genome, only 1-2% of genome actually encodes for…

BRUSSELS, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Using the innovative technique of radioembolisation to treat patients with inoperable colorectal cancer liver metastases who have failed all standard-of-care…

Previously undetected landforms indicate the Moon is ... shrinking. Lobate scarps  are thrust faults that occur primarily in the Moon's lunar highlands. They were first recognized in photographs…

  Justus Von Liebig&The Law Of The Minimum "In the 19th century, the German scientist, Justus von Liebig, formulated the “Law of the Minimum,” which states that if one of the essential…

Almost a quarter century after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine, its fallout is still a hot topic in some German regions, where thousands of boars shot by hunters still turn up with…

This monument is situated just opposite Sudanlage 6, which housed world famous lineage of Institute of Plant Nutrition which was once headed by Professor Dr  Justus von Liebig, in Giessen,…