Truffles: An Underground Treasure
Truffles are potato-shaped underground mushrooms that grow in all kinds of different environments ranging from high-rise forests of…
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In Respect of Nature: The Amazing Nature of Bacterial Bio Plastics
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish…
Little-Known Rare-Earth Elements
Will there be wars over elements like there have been over petroleum and water? What element have we…
Yonder Mystery of Bones and Reproduction
For many years, scientists thought that women were born with a limited number of oocytes (eggs) in the…
The Missing Piece: The New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Eight months have passed since the “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central…
Biogas as a Clean Energy
Recent years have witnessed rapid industrialization and population growth, along with profligate consumption of energy. This in turn…
The Future of Solar Energy in the Energy Market and Why We Need It More Than Ever
Renewable energy resources Our current source of energy is mostly fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural…
Radiocarbon Dating and Questions
Libby’s discovery, now known as the carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) technique, was a method that could be used to…
Biological Warfare
Biological warfare used to be the stuff of movies (The Andromeda Strain [1971], Outbreak [1995], 12 Monkeys [1996],…
Breen’s Code: Interfaith Cooperation For Morals in Movies
When two students walked into Colombine High School in Littleton, CO, and killed 12 fellow students, a century-old…
Plant Biotechnology for The Next Century
The earth’s human population is expected to pass 6 billion people at the beginning of the next century.…
Putting Plutonium Back In The Bottle
How much plutonium is being smuggled around the world? What would happen if plutonium was more widely available?…
Factory of Future
Artificial Intelligence is a promising approach to automating process planning. Expert Systems or Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems are…