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. …
the fixed salmon catch quotas that existed under the original Pacific Salmon Treaty between the United States and Canada are now history. A new agreement based on abundance of the valuable food fish was concluded on June 3, 1999, resolving a long-standing dispute between the neighbouring nations. The new agreement …
The genetic link to male homosexuality has come under scrutiny. A team of researchers at the US National Cancer Institute had earlier studied 40 pairs of gay brothers from families with maternal gay relatives. They observed that the brothers conspicuously shared certain DNA markers on a region of the X …
Cells from the mother that remain in the body of the child since its foetal stage can trigger auto-immune diseases, in which the body attacks its own tissues. J Nelson and her colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, have found maternal cells in a 47-year-old man with …
The polluting potential of petrol-powered engines used in tools such as chainsaws is significantly underrated. But the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California state regulatory authorities have started cracking down on these. To meet the EPA norms, Illinois-based Deere & Company has come up with an engine design that …
the harmless natural oil that gives peaches their perfume can also be used as a pesticide, scientists working for the us government have found. The oil kills fungus and other pests in the soil and could replace methyl bromide, a widely used pesticide that is toxic to humans and harms …
when a damaged aircraft goes out of control in mid-air, the last resort is to jump out of the plane with a parachute. But this can be quite difficult at times. It is by no means easy to jump out of a spinning aircraft. Cirrus Design, a us company based …
ian Wilmut, the scientist who created Dolly, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell has struck a million-dollar deal with a us company to work on human cloning. According to a report in the London Daily Telegraph , Wilmut had agreed to help develop techniques to clone a …
royal dutch/shell and Exxon Corp may never be the toast of "green' activists, but they can take comfort from a new report ranking them tops in the oil industry when it comes to the environment. Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon took first and second place, respectively, in a study of the …
american farmers can survive and possibly make money off the Kyoto global climate change treaty if market-based incentives are included in a final agreement, a study by the us department of agriculture ( usda) said. The report was the latest analysis on the prospective economic impact of us compliance with …
Long-term exposure to atmospheric particles less than 10 microgrammes in diameter (PM10s) can increase chances of lung cancer in men, says a new study. David Abbey and his team from Loma Lind University, California, USA, monitored 6,338 non-smoking Caucasians between the ages of 27 and 95 years who lived in …
CLONING TECHNOLOGY: Geron, the US-based biotechnology company specialising in embryo research has bought the Scottish cloning technology that led to Dolly the sheep. The company aims to clone patients' cells to produce specialised tissues for transplantation. Geron is issuing about US $28 million of new shares to buy Roslin Bio-Med, …
the first equal-arm balance was used by the ancient Egyptians some 5,000 years ago. The ancient Romans further improved the balance. In the 18th century came the use of edges of knives. In more recent times, accurate electrical balances replaced the balance in most laboratories. But now, researchers at the …
the us has criticised the European Union ( eu ) government's decision to seek limits on carbon emissions trading under the Kyoto global climate treaty. The us accused eu saying it was rewriting prior agreements. According to eu officials, they have decided on a common approach for international talks in …
the us department for energy ( doe ), which has been raising money for its costly environmental cleanup of old bomb factories by leasing them to commercial tenants, may be exposing ordinary factory workers to excessive radiation, says a us -based environmental group, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. At …
Farmers have a largely unappreciated friend. It is the Bat. At the Annual Walnut Research Conference in Bodega Bay, California, USA, researchers said that bats help to keep the skies above farms free of insect pests. One example is the codling moth, which causes considerable harm to pear, apple and …
aids experts got another piece of bad news: patients are passing on strains of the virus that resist one or more drugs. Consequently, the minute some people get infected, there will be some drugs that will probably be ineffective. Very soon there may be a need to see if it …
CAN some holes drilled into the exhaust system of a car engine increase power and lower emissions? Yes, says Ahmet Selamet of the Ohio State University in Columbus, usa. He has been working along with engineers at the Ford Motor Company near Detroit on problems car engines have in pushing …
it has been immortalised in public memory by the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo . Yet only those who suffer from it know the feeling. Anything from the sound of the buzz on the telephone to music or cheering at a sporting event can give vertigo to some people. Vertigo is …
US engineers have developed a smart tyre that tells drivers when it needs replacing or inflating. Wen Ko, an engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a team at the tyre manufacturing company Goodyear, which was led by William Dunn, have designed and patented tiny pressure and …
