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. …
each year, thermal features such as hot springs at the Yellowstone national park in the us emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (co2), the most important greenhouse gas, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University (psu), usa. This is more than the emissions from a typical industrial power plant, …
a nasal spray vaccine may prove effective in preventing influenza in children. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (niaid) , Bethesda, usa , have succeeded in controlling the infection with the help of this viral vaccination. They have also developed a sprayer that is capable of …
the Universe may have far less matter than previously thought, say astronomers. The findings have been separately confirmed by two groups of researchers at the Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, usa , and Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. The discovery would help in finding whether …
in the wake of growing environmental concern, vehicle manufacturers are now designing products that can be dismantled into reusable pieces. Auto-makers have already made efforts to design cars that could be easily stripped down. A joint-venture company of three big auto-makers
some animals put on low-calorie diets have been found to increase their life span. If the method is confirmed in other animals, too, then it may become a reliable means of extending a mammal's life span. Experiments on monkeys whose body formations are similar to humans have shown encouraging results. …
Scientists in the US have developed a fire-resistant plastic. E Giannelis and his team at Cornell University, USA, have developed a method to mix organic polymers with clays on a micro level. The modified polymer-mineral blend exhibits increased heat and flame resistance. The Cornell group succeeded in mingling the two …
Neurophysicist Jerome Pine and his colleagues have assembled the first neurochip at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. A neurochip is silicon chip with living nerve cells or neurones. The scientists bored 16 tiny wells in the chip. An embryonic rat brain cell was introduced in each well. As …
herbal medicines are gradually gaining acceptance in the us. The Food and Drug Administration (fda), recently agreed to allow a British company to test a herbal eczema treatment on people, even though its active ingredient is not known. Till now, fda was only willing to approve trials once the active …
a simple 15-minute screening test for people suffering from headache has been devised by scientists at the Cincinnati Headache Institute, Ohio University, usa. The procedure would help doctors know the exact location of pain, the severity of pain and whether other factors such as stress, are contributing to it. This …
results from a satellite put into orbit to detect nuclear weapons in space have caused a stir in the scientific community. The results reveal thousands of times of more lightning from thunderstorms than scientists had earlier believed. Three months after its launch, Los Alamos National laboratory's Fast On-orbit Recording of …
environmentalists have been expressing concern over the construction of Glen Canyon Dam for long. The dam has curbed the flow of the Colorado river above the Grand Canyon creating Lake Powell. The dam altered the Colorado river's natural pattern of yearly summer flooding and thus eliminated the usual seasonal variations …
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez was grounded on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons (50 million litres) of oil into the sea. The litigation that ensued is a classic case of evaluation of ecological damage. The jury awarded US $5 billion in …
the scarcity of blood throughout the world has prompted researchers to devise methods so that its use could be minimised. A team of researchers led by Lawrence Goodnough at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, usa , reports that new drugs and techniques can make many transfusions unnecessary. …
Patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis have shown a positive response to some experimental drugs. They experienced decrease in the pain and swelling in joints after taking these genetically engineered drugs. The drugs inhibit the action of a substance called tumour necrosis factor (TNF) that is responsible for the severe pain …
Scientists have discovered how chilli hurts and also found a new use for pain as well. David Julius and his team at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, have discovered a chemical called capsaicin that is responsible for the chilli pepper's piquant taste. They have also identified and cloned …
Studies show that men who lose their cool are twice at the risk of heart attack as compared to more mild-mannered men. Susan Everson and her colleagues at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA, reached the conclusion after studying 2,110 middle-aged men, most of them in …
damage to the brain or spinal cord due to severe injuries has become more frequent nowadays. So, researchers are constantly trying to develop therapies to deal with trauma of this nature. Much interest has been directed at the possibility that neuronal pathways, which do not serve a particular function might …
