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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
march witnessed the end to a us $5 billion dream of connecting people across the globe. And the aftermath will be felt over the next couple of years. For, when Iridium
For the past six years, adultHanuman langurs in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, have been found to deliver quadruplets. Scientists working with the Indo-US Primate Projectare at present exploring the cause for this unique reproductive event
Call it political naivete. But Indian non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) and business organisations have hosted a series of meetings over the last year in metros across the country, where claims have been made that the Clean Development Mechanism ( cdm ) proposed by the Kyoto Protocol under the un …
When the leaders of two of the most powerful free-market economies take a stance that upholds public good over private profit, it is good news for humankind. The Human Genome Project ( hgp ), aimed at 'mapping' the entire human genetic pool, is at the heart of one of the …
following the Arab oil embargo in 1973, when queues for petrol lengthened at petrol pumps all over usa and Europe, the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page feature on a South American community that had "solved" the energy crisis by devising equipments powered by renewable energy sources. The report was …
there is hope in sight for the blind. For the first time in medical history lab-grown corneas have been developed by us scientists. The lab variety resemble the real ones in every respect, even to the degree of cloudiness human corneas get when they come in contact with detergents, shampoos …
Solid plutonium oxide, of the kind used in nuclear reactors and warheads, was till recently believed to be the most stable form of plutonium. But now scientists have discovered that water can oxidise plutonium oxide and make it more soluble. Last year, they discovered that trace amounts of plutonium oxide …
THE world's earliest civilisations began on the banks of rivers. With time, this became an accepted phenomenon as water was essential to sustain human habitat. Unfortunately, water has been overused and abused across the world irrespective of the economic status of the region. Take, for instance, Europe. Around 60 per …
the much-talked about phenomenon of global warming was in the news recently following an unusual experiment. The British scientific weekly Nature reported that scientists from the University of Michigan and the University of Western Ontario, using hundreds of boreholes, found that heat radiates from the Earth's molten core towards the …
us efforts to come up with new ways to test and produce ultra clean fuels and pollution control devices for road vehicles has received a boost in the form of additional funds. The department of energy is to spend us $75 million to make sure new fuel processing technologies perform …
The National Geographic magazine suddenly finds itself in an embarrassing situation with the discovery that the "missing-link" dinosaur-bird featured by it in November is a fake. The fossil is two animals put together either mistakenly by its discoverers in China or as an artful forgery. Archaeoraptor, on display at the …
If you have a gaps in your teeth, just blame it on your genes. Researchers from the University of Texas and Baylor College of Medicine, USA, have found that missing teeth are linked with a mutation in the gene called PAX9. It is one of the genes that help to …
Biologists at Cornell University, USA, have found a gene that prevents plants from being fertilised by their own pollen. They found that kale plant ( Brassica oleracea ) produces a gene "S locus cysteine-rich protein' (SCR) in its anthers. Anthers is the part of the flower that produces pollen. To …
unbelievable, but true, ice crystals found inside the seafloor have more energy than all the world's fossil fuels put together. Before the 1970s, scientists did not even know that they existed under the sea. But several expeditions later, some startling findings have come to light about methane hydrate - a …
Global warming is caused by the use of fossil fuels, common examples being burning coal in power stations, running automobiles, etc. What would you then call an instrument that ends up subsidising this same energy economy, making it cheaper, and therefore, even more attractive. And what if the instrument, like …
a team of palaeontologists in southern Patagonia, usa , has discovered the fossils of the largest dinosaur ever found. Measuring 48-51 metres (m) in length, the herbivore, which lived during the Cretaceous period about 105 million years ago, is around 8 m longer than Seismosaurus, till recently the largest dinosaur. …
If there is life anywhere else in our solar system, it is most likely to be found on Europa, one of the 16 moons orbiting Jupiter. According to a new report in the journal Nature , there is strong evidence that beneath Europa's frozen exterior of ice lies an ocean …
