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,
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State proposal faces axe
the Madhya Pradesh ( mp ) government's proposal to hand over captive plantations to industry has been coldshouldered by the Centre. The move was earlier opposed by local groups and
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Blinded by smoke
Two independent Boston-based research teams have linked cigarette smoking to age related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older people. People who smoked 25 cigarettes
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Institute revived
the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (icrisat), Hyderabad, has finally emerged from the state of limbo regarding its future. An expert committee has recently ruled that
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Aqua guard
Denmark introduces an advanced system to moniter oxygen depletion and waste dumping in seawater
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Greened money
thanks to the Reserve Bank of India (rbi), the colour of money now will not only be green, but will actually have a green edge. rbi governor C Rangarajan inaugurated a system in
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India
• According to a recent study by the Pune-based National AIDS Research Institute, measures to control the malady have proved futile in India. The report states 10.2 per cent of those who tested
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Vicious circle
Global warming reduces ability of oceans to absorb carbon dioxide, leading to more warming
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Dyeing delights
Surjit S Mann, director of the Delhi-based Kala-Tex India Ltd has invented an environment-friendly textile dye by a process based on electrolyte technology. This electrolytic composition dye labelled
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DAMAGING DEVICE
A us computer firm, Digital Equipment Corpora tion, was ordered to pay $5.8 million as compensation to three office workers who blamed their repetitive strain injury on keyboards
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Deadly water
Arsenic-contaminated water can now be disinfected by exposing it to sunlight and air, according to scientists working with the Cooperative Research Centre for Waste Manage ment and Pollution Control
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On the pollutant hunt
Regular and planned monitoring of air quality in India started with the national ambient air quality monitoring (<font class=UCASE>naaqm</font>) network, launched by CPCB in 1985. The network, which began with 30 stations, grew to 300 stations in 1993
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It’s all... in the air
Monitoring air quality in India seems to have finally got a headstart. But what is of concern is the manner in which the process will be regulated. As <b>G D Agarwal</b> reports, most of the standards set up do not have any correlation with ground realit