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. …
condemning what it described as the phenomenon of "biocolonialism' in the context of gene patents , the European Council has supported India's stance against piracy of its natural patents. Quite obviously, the criticism was directed at a number of industrialised countries, particularly the us , where producers have already started …
A new software, developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Pittsburgh, usa, will aid computers to recognise speech through lip reading. "The new software, NLips, will reduce the error rate of speech recognition software in noisy environments,' says Alex Waibel of the CMU. Normal speech recognition software …
hurricane Floyd, which struck eastern North Carolina on September 17, has so far claimed more than 31 lives and rendered thousands homeless. Almost two-thirds of the state has been virtually paralysed and many towns have been completely submerged. A state of emergency has been declared in 28 counties. According to …
Jaques Fresco of Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, and his colleagues have found a cunning way to repair the mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia. They have designed a DNA strand that hooks on to the mutant gene, b -globin. When exposed to radiation, a chemical called psoralen attached to the …
Those studying tumour cells have no way of knowing all the different mutations that make them divide uncontrollably. Robert Weinberg and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, have successfully transformed a healthy human cell into a cancer cell by making it express three genes that they know are …
school children in Kansas in the us, will be taught evolution as written in the Bible and not according to the theory propounded by Charles Darwin. The war of words, between supporters of science-based and faith-based education, ended when the Kansas school board voted against the teaching of Darwin's theory …
After painstaking research, at least one culprit has been identified behind some of the deformities recently seen in frogs in the us . Trematode rather than pesticides are responsible for some of the deformities seen recently in frogs by scientists at the Hartwick College in the us. The minute trematodes, …
After painstaking research, at least one culprit has been identified behind some of the deformities recently seen in frogs in the us . Trematode rather than pesticides are responsible for some of the deformities seen recently in frogs by scientists at the Hartwick College in the us. The minute trematodes, …
the us government has disclosed its intention to remove some bird and animal species that were on the endangered list. The bald eagle, Aleutian Canada goose and the peregrine falcon have been removed from the list, pending a brief period of public comment. The White House has also announced that …
According to a paper jointly prepared by the credit rating firm Crisil and Hagler Bailly Services, clean development mechanism (cdm) projects could bring investments worth US $39.15 billion into India. Under the cdm programme, companies in the developed countries can invest in developing countries to achieve carbon reduction objectives at …
new biofertiliser: Hyderabad-based Pratistha Industries Limited has come up with an indigenous technology to produce biofertiliser and protein-rich animal feed from maize waste. This technology has already been marketed by a Secunderabad-based entrepreneur, said K V S S Sriram, managing director of the company. The Thapar Corporate Research and Development …
THE drought which hit the us recently may extend to the next year, John Kelly, director, National Weather Service has said. Dan Glickman, agriculture secretary, has declared Connecticut "a farm disaster area' and has issued similar declarations for 19 counties in Maryland, six additional counties in Virginia and one in …
In the beginning there was darkness. All enveloping. Then the Kansas Board of Education in the us finally saw the light. Evolution or rather the teaching of it had to go. The science of evolution had never been proven in a laboratory. Therefore, it must be dropped from the curriculum. …
corals across the world may be getting afflicted by diseases transmitted through the dust coming out of deserts in Africa. Moreover, the dust may also be the reason behind a global rise in respiratory infections. This has been proposed by Dick Barber of the Duke University in Beaumont, North Carolina, …
After days of negotiation with a US-based entrepreneur, the Russian Space Agency has changed its mind again about the fate of the Mir space station. After several stay orders, officials now say the present crew will not be replaced when they return to Earth in August. Only recently, there were …
Joshua M Smith and his team from North Dakota University, USA, suggest that writing can help improve the health of people, especially those suffering from chronic illnesses. The researchers asked 112 patients with asthma and rheumatic arthritis to write about their most traumatic experiences for 20 minutes at a time …
Peanut snacks can prove to be fatal for those who are unfortunate enough to be allergic to them. An estimated 100 people die every year in the US due to anaphylactic shock (acute allergic reaction) after accidental exposure to peanuts. It appears that occurrence of peanut allergy is rising particularly …
from Virginia to Massachusetts, extending even as far west as Ohio, exceptionally dry weather conditions threaten eastern United States with drought. The National Weather Service has blamed the stagnant high-pressure system over the south-eastern part of the country for the lack of rain this summer. Conditions were no better last …
