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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Hot superconductivity
The many applications of high temperature superconductors
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Attacking heart attacks
An enzyme displays belligerence towards cholesterol
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Active signals
A new machine helps quadriplegics move through electric impulses
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Flyash herbal pesticides introduced
flyash, the notorious waste product of coal-based thermal power plants, known for its ill effects on agricultural land, may now come as an aid for the farming community. Scientists of
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Impure manure
A research team at the University of Minnesota in USA found antibiotics in plants. The root of the problem was in the soil: manure from animals that were administered antibiotics. The plants
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Butterflies prefer coffee to tea
you see a lot of butterflies hovering around coffee plantations. The reason is the plantations have scattered stands of trees for shade. And a change in ecology can affect their numbers. Over
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Soft pedalling by the authorities
FOR THE first time in India's environmental history, a person was imprisoned for contempt of court in relation to the Sariska mining case. The Supreme Court-appointed committee had invited
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Towards more concrete responsibilities
• Compulsory afforestation by lessees • Blanket ban on mining in forest areas • Revision of mining royalty rates concurrent with steel prices • Mandatory ecological measures
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Fuel cell buses for Delhi Going nowhere?
Grants have been approved to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses in the developing countries
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A mixed bag
The Bangladesh government sends thin plastic bags packing, but has Dhaka seen the last of them? <font class='UCASE'>Pinaki Roy</font> on the ban s efficacy