The recent earthquake in Chile was so big, it altered the earths rotation.  So if you notice the days getting shorter, blame the quake.  According to NASA scientist Richard Gross, the earth has been knocked about 3 inches off of its axis!  This resulted in a 1.26 microsecond shortening of the day.

During recent National Symposium one of the significant presentation by Professor Akhilesh Tyagi from Delhi brought out the fact that chromosomes of wheat , rice, maize, sorghum and Brachypodium which lie in the range from 7 to 12 have much in common and even details of gene expressions where reported using latest technologies. Certain set of genes become active during tassel formation while other during active growth and others during seeding. Differential gene expression is important for maintaining the balance. However we studied that chromosome number of ferns lies from 300 to 500. Moreover monocots which are highly evolved as compared to dicots have more introns the unexpressed sequences between the expressing codons which are transcribed after splicing.

Most people think that science is done behind closed doors with expensive equipment, fiddling around with complicated technology by scientists wearing cheap lab coats. The rest of us merely stand on the outside waiting for some interesting discoveries to be made. Well, although the caricature is partly true there are many experiments where the amount of data is so huge that the research teams have enlisted the help of citizen scientists.

The Bud Light commercial about astronomers is astoundingly accurate.  Details they get right include:

• we like celebrating just about anything, good or bad
• we drink beer in large groups
• we sometimes make mistakes but, hey, that's science
• playing with fire extinguishers is fun
• science chicks are hot (seriously... brains, cuteness and ability to stay up late = win!)

In the movies  on the crucifixion, were committed a serious mistakes, from the medical point of view, probably dictated by the official iconography that sees the crucifixion with the sounding of the nails at the palms of the hands.