Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different…

I had a chance to pass on the road in front of hospital in West recently. I never had a chance to enter hospital from inside there. I remembered the poem of Ernest Hemmingway “East is East and West…

A 19th century nursery rhyme called "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" and generally attributed to Robert Southey goes "What are little boys made of?  What are little boys made of? Snips and snails…

Do social networks which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produce large-scale changes most quickly, as social media lore claims?    No, says a new study by Damon Centola…

If you ask a non doctor what are the remedies of hypertension and blood pressure its like asking solutions from a student of maths or physics. However great contributions have been made from people…

Sodium promotes life activities and its low levels cause loss of memory in humans . In C4 plants its needed for metabolism also. How does sodium regulate in positive and negative manner. Can it…

Cell membrane composed of lipids is impermeable to glucose which is a polar compound. Transport of glucose across the cell membrane requires a carrier protein located in cell membrane. In plant…

If only you could visit the new Barcelona airport and see the shops you will hardly notice any signs of recession. I was much impressed by the designs of ladies purses displayed in window which had…

Late Professor B. Tiagi was a great botanist who taught almost all the people or now teachers  ( or now retired teachers ) who worked all over Rajasthan in the period hailing from 1960s to 1990s…

This plant Atropa bella-donna yields famous drug atropine used to dilate the pupil of the eyes and has medicinal properties. This plant is highly valued for its medicinal properties.