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. …
a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( mit ), usa , has reported a new material that could be used to make synthetic organs for transplants. This is great news for medical science as there are several times more people who need organs than those who …
for the first time ever, an international team of researchers has deciphered the complete genetic code of a human chromosome revealing the existence of hundreds of genes hitherto unknown in humans. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust-funded Sanger Centre near Cambridge, uk, Keio University in Japan and us laboratories at the …
japanese traders have recently bought corn and soybeans grown exclusively from non-genetically modified (gm) seeds, at premiums roughly 40-50 per cent higher than those for mixed gm and gm crops. "Japanese food companies will start receiving non- gm corn deliveries from the us in November. The volume of imports of …
How do fish survive in the icy waters of the polar seas? By using an antifreezing device, just as motorists who want their car engines to work in sub-zero temperatures. Research by Chi-Hing Cheng and Liangbiao Chen of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA, shows that a gene in …
That voltage fluctuations and frequency variations spoil the fun of hi-fi digital sound systems is the complaint of many a music fan. PS Audio, a company based in Avon, Colorado, USA, has developed a device worth US $1,000 that delivers a pure waveform when plugged into the electricity mains. The …
on the eve of the World Trade Organisation's (wto) meet in Seattle, Western environmentalists geared up to make their voices heard. They are urging the participating countries to go ahead with only those regulations that are environment-friendly. Western environmentalists believe that wto regulations do not conform to green standards and …
recent developments in environmental technologies in the uk will lead to the improvement of a popular gas-run industrial turbine, making it ultra-clean with regard to emissions. The turbine is the industrial Avon engine, which is derived from an engine first developed in the 1950s to power military and civil aircraft. …
as the east coast of India was battered by the worst cyclone in years, and Cambodia and Vietnam faced the worst flooding in decades, governments from across the world were at a meeting in Bonn, carefully negotiating ways to wriggle out of commitments to control climate change. The two-way street …
George W Bush(Republican, governor of Texas ) Efforts to improve our environment must be based on sound science, not social fads. Scientific data shows average temperatures have increased slightly during this century, but both the causes and the impact of this slight warming are uncertain. Changes in the earth's atmosphere …
in a dramatic move, victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy filed a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corporation (ucc), its former chief executive officer (ceo) Warren Anderson and Praxair Incorporated, a ucc-owned subsidiary that still conducts business in India. The suit, filed on November 15 in New York's southern district …
The effects of global warming due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) may not all be bad. Xiahong Feng of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, says that rising levels of GHGs have led to faster tree growth in arid regions. This would mean that planting trees in …
Hurricanes, like Floyd, which lashed the eastern coast of USA in mid-September, may take a heavy toll on human settlements near the coasts, but there is good news for algae, going by the findings of Marilyn Fogel of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and her colleagues. The researchers discovered that …
for their unique optical properties, liquid crystals are finding increasing applications in displays of computer laptops, flat-screen televisions and other products. Now, physicists Jay S Patel and Y J Kim of the Pennsylvania State University, usa , report acoustic properties of liquid crystals. The duo discovered that during electrical switching …
one of the most popular pesticides used in the us, Dursban, may be unsafe for humans, say officials from the us Environment Protection Agency ( epa) . Any exposure to Dursban can lead to blurred vision, muscle weakness, headaches and depression, they say. Dursban, a pesticide manufactured by Dow Chemical, …
Diminishing concessions in federal government-controlled forests in the United States are forcing pulp and paper companies to look for greener pastures outside the us. Such is the case of Boise Cascade, an us- based pulp and paper group. They have been given the green light to build one of the …
most couples assume that whenever they want to have children, all they need to do is stop using birth control measures. For many, it really is that simple. But for millions of others, it is not that easy. An estimated 10-15 per cent of couples are infertile, which is defined …
Researchers associated with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a large seed company based in the US that is looking for ways to modify genes in its products, have announced details of a genetic method to make corn plants resistant to two common herbicides. The technique also prompts plants to repair an inactive …
US researchers have pointed out that it may be possible to have plants in which disease-causing fungi could be fooled into committing suicide. This could be achieved either by spraying plants with substances that trigger fungal suicide or by putting in genes in the plants to make them powerful
