First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Cluster formation
In June last year when the Cluster mission was blown up because of a faulty launcher, most people thought that it was the end of the mission. But now the European Space Agency's Space Science
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Is life elsewhere?
A group from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK has analysed the isotopic composition of samples from ALH84001, the original Martian meteorite and reported results that support claims of the
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The unborn pain
The foetus can hear, smell and is sensitive to taste, but can it also feel pain?
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Fresh hopes
fresh water might become a reality for Israelites with the recent discovery of three salty springs beneath the Sea of Galilee. The sea mainly receives its water from the river Jordan which carries
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Taj to breathe
in a December 1996 ruling on a public interest petition, the Supreme Court ordered 292 coke coal-based industries in the trapezium zone of the historical Taj Mahal to either close down, pull
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Read this properly
Recognised specifically as a brain disease uptil now, reading disorders are now linked to the language concerned
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Rare species in peril
international experts recently sounded an alarm bell over conservationists' fervour for saving the Indian tiger. They say for want of attention, several rare species in the country stand the
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Beer cures
Japanese scientists have learned that beer may inhibit the carcinogen: tryptophan pyrolysate product no-2, a heterocyclic amine, produced by burning meat, fish or tobacco leaves. This was reported by
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Loan for eco project
india is receiving a us $50 million loan from the World Bank for implementing an environmental management capacity building project to ensure the monitoring of and compliance with
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Memory booster
A safely tested new drug to help septuagenarians remember was disclosed at the recent annual meeting of neuroscience in Washington, US. The drug contains a new class of molecules called ampakines,