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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Promising potatoes
Soon it may be possible to get resistance against a disease by simply eating a potato. A team headed by Charles Arntzen at the Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research in New York, US, has
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Future fuel
Coal is making a comeback, in gaseous and liquid forms, as the fossil fuel of choice
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Change for the worse
heating of the planet can cause the dreaded dengue fever to rise to epidemic proportions. Simon Hales and colleagues at the Wellington School of Medicine in New Zealand believe that the occurrence
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Disposal nightmare
there seems to be some consensus on the means of disposing excess pluto nium, an issue which has plagued super powers like us. The us energy department will now encase about 50 tonnes of
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Garbage spark off
An American company has put up a proposal to the West Bengal government for setting up a power plant in Calcutta with a capacity to generate upto 200 mw of electricity daily from garbage and
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Radioactive power
Trees contaminated by radioactivity from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster are to be burnt to produce electri city. Scientists from the us and Belarus are planning to construct a power plant fueled by
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Traffic jam up there
Orbiting space junk poses a serious threat to future space exploration<br>
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It s a hot shot
A pocket sized camera with a transmitter is finding a lot of uses in police investigation
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Sorting out differences
a project to study India's genetically diverse population groups has been proposed by the department of biotechnology (dbt). The country has 75 endangered tribal groups among its 465
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Ray of hope
A foodstuff industry fungus finds a new job: cleaning up ash from municipal waste