Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
Oxygen has been discussed in the moon's atmosphere by a team of German researchers. The team from the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in Katlenburg-Lindau used data fron a nearby Nasa satellite to study the thin luner atmosphere and found traces of oxygen, silicon and aluminium.
India has been selected as the chaircountry of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for 1998-99. The 165-members elected United Kingdom and Venezuela as the joint vice-chairman countries at its meeting held in Budapest recently. Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) chairman R A Mashelkar has been appointed by …
Dried banana stems can mop up radioactive nuclear wastes, say scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai. The inner portion of banana stems, called pith, can absorb uranium, plutonium, cestium, cerium, promethium, and europium, preliminary studies by BARC's fuel reprocessing division showed.
India will now be in a position to check out on patent data on industrial innovations worldwide before clearing domestic requests for product or process patents with the recent accession to the Paris Convention and Patent Cooperation Treaty. The Industry Minister, Mr. Sikander Bakht, said on Tuesday the Indian Patent …
The government is considering declaring patent office as an International Search Authority (ISA) and an International Preliminary Examination Authority (IPEA).
The use of unleaded fuel in vehicles without catalytic convertors defeats the very purpose of the 'green fuel' and will not help cut down on air pollution. At present, a majority of vehicles in the city are not fitted with catalytic convertors but are using unleaded fuel.According to an Environment …
NASA researchers have obtained compelling images from Hurricane Bonnie showing a storm cloud towering like a mountain 59,000 feet into the sky from the eye wall. These images were obtained by the world's first spaceborne rain radar aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a joint U.S.-Japanese mission.
manufactured products often contain unnecessary and undesirable chemicals which are generated during the production process. These chemicals are potential polluters of the environment. Ideally, it should be possible to modify the manufacturing process so as to be able to remove such unwanted substances without endangering the quality and essential properties …
IN THE days when "information superhighway" is the buzzword, one may find it hard to believe that fungus may have already been leading the communication network of life on land, some 400 million years ago. Mark A S McMenamin, professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College and Dianna L S …
THE Chinese may not have found a cure for treating cancer, but what they have is the patient's well-being in mind. The Western drug researchers have reached a plateau in their attempts to find a magic pellet, but the Chinese doctors have utilised their traditional knowledge of herbs to improve …
RECENTLY, a woman in France was convicted to 10 years in prison for letting her quadriplegic husband rot to death. What would that man have given to be able to use his hands can well be imagined. But awaiting the us Food and Drug Administration's approval is a medical device …
IF GREEN plants can capture 95 per cent of the total energy from sunlight through the process of photosynthesis, why can't the solar photo-voltaic cells (SPV)? The best SPVS are able to absorb only 25 per cent of the solar energy available on the surface of the Earth -- a …
A FOSSILISED jaw of Homo erectus-modern man's closest ancestor has been traced in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, could be the oldest ever found outside Africa. It has been generally believed that Africa is the evolutionary home of humans, with the Homo erectus developing from proto-human species. The new …
US-based Megainin Pharmaceuticals Inc researchers have found a natural antibiotic in the tongue of the cow which may explain how injuries caused to the animal's tongue remain infection-free and heal rapidly. The researchers isolated a compound -- lingual antimicrobial peptide (LAP) -- capable of killing bacteria and viruses. They say …
The rodent-like Gilbert Potoroo marsupial, a kangaroo species presumed extinct for more than a century, was rediscovered in south-western Australia by an Australian student who recently trapped a pair. "They are the most beautiful animals, with a long nose and incredibly soft fur, a little tail and long nails," says …
The US Food and Drug Agency recently approved Naltrexone -- a medicine to cure alcoholism. The effectiveness of the drug was studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, USA. Naltrexone reduces alcohol-induced euphoria brought about by the body's endorphins and suppresses the craving to drink more. By mimicking …
Warped placements of the green and red cones makes a person colourblind. As a result, 1 colour is replaced by black enhancing the brightness of the other. Scientists at Aston University in the English Midlands are using this as a basis for developing the first test to detect colourblindness in …
Researchers at the National Cancer Centre Research Institute, Tokyo, and the Chiba University School of Medicine in Japan, have made a significant discovery which may help correct genetic disorders in the womb. Scientists implanted an easily detectable gene into mouse embryos by injecting it into the tail veins of pregnant …
Folk remedies, which for long used moulds and fungi for patching up wounds, have been discovered to have a scientific basis. Researchers at the British Textile Technology Group in Manchester hope to develop fungus-based surgical dressings to accelerate wound healing. Fungi contain chitin and chitosan in their cell walls rendering …
THE scientific community is deeply troubled. The 1st ever reported case of aids was not aids at all! That ends the certainty with which they so long had regarded the origin of the disease. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Centre, New York, claims that the original …
