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. …
Fear may be in built in your genes. A team led by Jeanne Wehner at the University of Colorado, USA, has discovered a range of DNA that are responsible for putting terror into the hearts of mice. The researchers gave mild electric shocks to rodents soon after exposing them to …
How do squirrels know where they buried their nuts, and bees successfully return to their hives? Alan Kamil and Juli Jones at the University of Nebraska, USA, say that some animals possess internal representations of the geometric relationships between geographical features
autogyros that had vanished from the scene after a brief period of popularity in 1930s, may soon stage a comeback. Autogyros are the fly machines that can carry up to five persons at a time. The gyroplanes
chemists in the us have developed a sponge-like material that is very effective at absorbing certain heavy metals. The material called mesoporous silica, can be used to clean wastewater and turn it into drinking water. Researchers say it may also be cheap and adaptable enough to use the substance in …
according to a study conducted by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (oecd), nearly half of American adults have trouble with common mental demands of life in reading newspapers, filling out job applications or balancing a chequebook. "Low literacy is a problem everywhere,' the report said. The oecd …
results of a study published by National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, the most prestigious research agency of the us federal government, have confirmed that sperm counts have dropped enormously in the last 60 years in the us and Europe. This is much higher than the findings of any previous …
the predator management programme in the managed forests of the us state of Alaska has aroused an age-old ecological debate. A report prepared by the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the us National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, says that wildlife managers in Alaska may be able …
a robotic camera was released on December 3 - 40 feet above space shuttle Columbia - by a spacewalking us astronaut, Winston Scott. The camera - about the size of a beach ball - is the first test of its kind. The us $3 million free-flying camera is padded for …
a diet containing substantial amounts of vegetables and fruits can prevent about two million cancer cases in the world every year. The American Institute for Cancer Research ( aicr ) and the World Cancer Research Fund, Washington, usa, have announced the study recently. Paul Talalay and his colleagues at the …
the us Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in a landmark decision, has refused to renew the license of the 160-year-old Edwards hydroelectric dam on the Kennebec river in the northeastern us state of Maine. Moreover, the commission has ordered the demolition of the 3.5-megawatt dam at the owner's expence. This is …
patients with blocked blood vessels in their legs could soon be treated with the help of gene therapy. Jeffrey Isner and his colleagues at St Elizabeth's Hospital and the Tufts University School of Medicine near Boston, usa, report that patients would be able to grow their own bypasses after the …
there have been mixed reactions in the us over a lady giving birth to seven babies. Only one of the babies - of Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey - was still breathing with the aid of a ventilator. The other six were breathing normally. For the clients of Washington-based psychologist, Susan …
Infants who take water in addition to breast milk or formula food may be at a serious health risk, say Paula Scariatt and her colleagues at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA. Such infants are likely to develop altered mental state, abnormally low body temperature, bloating and …
you might have played several guitars , but plucking the strings of this guitar may not be easy. Harold Craighead and Dustin Carr at the Cornell University, usa , have developed the world's smallest guitar that is nearly hundredth of a millimetre long. By inventing the guitar, the researchers wanted …
technologies used for digital watches and alarm clocks could be further developed to reduce the cost and power consumption of computer displays and to fabricate flat televisions. These televisions can be hung on a wall. A new type of light-emitting diode ( led ) being developed in the us could …
A device would allow people to write, draw with ink on a normal pad of paper and get the information recorded in a computer. Krishna Nathan at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center, New York, USA, has developed the device. The system consists of a panel on which a paper …
Researchers may soon be able to solve the mystery of why the outermost regions of the Sun are so hot. The visible surface of the Sun has a temperature of nearly 6000
a recent study indicates that the us has some of the longest-lived and the shortest-lived populations in the world. On one hand, Asian women in northern New Jersey have a life expectancy of 97.7 years, and on the other, Oglala Sioux men of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota …
