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. …
Researchers of the University of Illinois in Urbana, USA, led by Gene Robinson, say nepotism among bees is governed by a brain chemical that helps them distinguish intruders from fellow hive members. The researchers injected the brains of bees with a chemical that mimics the effects of a neurotransmitter called …
consider this: You are about to check in for your connecting flight and you discover your ticket is not with you. A frantic search but it is untraceable. To free you from these pre and post-travel tensions, ticketless travel involving two airlines is fast gaining ground with support from airline …
In its prolonged fight against the drug Mafia, Colombia has launched a political offensive in Washington to request us $500m anti-narcotics aid over the next two years. If approved the aid would deepen the us government's gradual involvement in Colombia's 35-year war with rebel groups and would significantly increase the …
four days of extreme stress, as experienced by war refugees, is all that it may take to significantly impair memory. Some us psychologists have reached this conclusion. Moreover, they have traced the phenomenon down to a single hormone. Psychologists have known for long that prolonged stress can cause amnesia or …
while environmentalists and the governments are on a warpath over dams in India, construction workers in the us began dismantling the 7.2-metre high, 85-metre-wide Edwards Dam on Maine's Kennebec River in the first week of July. The dismantling was done in a move to restore the nation's rivers to good …
a last-minute gift of us $1.5 million from an anonymous donor helped a Washington State Conservation Group meet its deadline for raising us $13.1 million to save a patch of state-owned forest from the loggers' chainsaws. According to the chairperson of the group, Fred Munson, the anonymous donation came just …
"the Marlboro man just fell off his high horse into quicksand and it will be years until the tobacco industry even gets him halfway out,'' said Ahron Leichtman, executive director of Citizens for a Tobacco-Free Society, a non-governmental organisation. He was commenting on a jury decision taken in Florida on …
ten cities in the us have dramatically improved their air quality, with ozone levels registering a reduction from 75 per cent to 40.7 per cent. The hallowed list includes Rochester, New York, Buffalo, Newark, Milwaukee, San Diego, Boston, Sacramento, Detroit, Chicago, New Jersey and Los Angeles. "People in these cities …
the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project team has announced that its efforts to measure the distances of far-away galaxies are now complete. To achieve this, the eight-year effort has been using the Hubble space telescope ( hst ). This, in turn, is an essential ingredient for determining the characteristics of …
ever since the invention of x -rays about 100 years ago, medical imaging technology has undergone several changes. cat -scans, pet scanning and mri scanning have helped physicians learn a great deal about the human body without surgical intervention. But there remain some parts of the body, such as lungs, …
The US Army has developed a new blood-clotting bandage that will be available soon. Bleeding is the most common cause of death for those wounded in battle, and the first-aid and other emergency departments need such bandages until the patients are transferred to the hospital. The new bandages involve freeze-drying …
the us government has filed a suit against Toyota Motor Sales usa , a subsidiary of Toyota, accusing it of equipping 22 million cars with faulty emission control monitoring systems. The federal government is seeking as much as us $60 billion in fines from the carmaker. However, Toyota in a …
More and more people are taking sides. Some are for genetically modified organisms and some are against them. Eminent people and organisations, Prince Charles of England, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (fao) of the United Nations, the Church have all advised restraint. Altered food may be good they say, but …
should the last known samples of the smallpox virus be destroyed or preserved for medical research? Or, should the vials of virus continue to remain in deep-freeze in case a future enemy develops it into a biological weapon? These are some of the questions at the heart of an on-going …
ECO-FRIENDLY INCINERATOR: To combat the growing pollution in Chennai, an eco-friendly incinerator for combustion of non-compostable garbage has been commissioned at the Akash Colony in Anna Nagar West as part of its Zero Garbage Plant project. Anaerobic composting is already being carried out in the colony with kitchen waste. The …
Richard gammon is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. Recently he led a group of sixty scientists who told the us Congress that it was time politicians in the country got serious about global warming. The scientists warned politicians that there were some in Congress who …
warming oceans are choking off marine life at an alarming pace and shrinking food supplies for people and other creatures dependent on the seas, according to a report by two environmental groups. The report, released by the Washington-based World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) and the Marine Conservation …
did the earliest flying birds evolve from fast runners that learnt to flap their wings and take off? Proponents of this theory have faced some nagging problems. How could a ground-dwelling animal run fast enough to reach takeoff speed, and why would it be flapping its wings? One calculation based …
Scientists at the Bell Laboratories in USA have developed a tiny, pyramid shaped microphone directly on a silicon chip. This microphone is about 100 micrometres in size. The researchers have built a minature radio-frequency filter (like those used in cell phones) and another component called an inductor. The three components …
scientists will soon have a new tool to search for the "fossil record' of the Big Bang and uncover clues about the evolution of the Universe. Scheduled to be launched on June 23, National Aeronautic and Space Administration's ( nasa ) Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ( fuse ) will observe …
