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. …
Environmental groups in California have challenged the idea of pollution trading strategies, which they say are an infringement of civil rights. Law suits have been filed in the federal district court and a complaint registered with the state air pollution prevention agencies that the emission trading initiatives selectively subject certain …
in the us , the aids Drug Assistance Program ( adap ), which used to cover the drug costs of 80,000 aids patients not covered by Medicaid or other private health insurances, is facing a hard time. This is because the budget for the fiscal year ending in October would …
Ecologists have long believed that extinction of native species, besides being caused by destruction of habitat, is also linked to the introduction of new species into their habitat. Ted Case, ecologist at the University of California, San Diego, says that competition between native and introduced species is not responsible for …
quinoa ( Chenopodium quinoa ) is a high protein food crop which is eaten by millions of people in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Now two us agronomists, Duane Johnson and Sarah Ward of Colorado State University have been granted a patent on a particular variety of crop known as …
the painful process of stitching wounds could be done away with as James Quinn and his team at the Emergency Medicine Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have come up with an adhesive that can close up deep wounds. The researchers say that the procedure of gluing is painless, fast, …
benign cars: In an attempt to introduce eco-friendly vehicles, the world's third-largest car maker, Toyota Motor Corp, plans to launch a vehicle equipped with a new diesel engine which improves fuel efficiency by 25 per cent as compared with the conventional diesel engines. It also plans to introduce this year …
one of the most problematic substances in the human body is cholesterol. The steep rise in the number of people with heart ailments has made a villain of this key chemical, necessary for several bodily functions such as synthesis of bile acids and hormones. Cholesterol is both made within the …
Fruits stay fresh for longer durations in tin cans compared to plastic packaging in hot conditions, says William Porter, food chemist at the Army Soldier Systems Command in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. This was discovered in 1991 during the Gulf War, when the caterers had problems with fruit turning brown and …
traditional systems of healing have always recognised that one's 'state-of-mind' has a strong bearing on issues of well-being and disease. Modern medicine is now starting to recognise and accept the truth in this. Scientists from different fields of medicine, such as immunology, neurobiology, endocrino-logy, and even psychiatry, are coordinating at …
a see-all camera has been developed that is as good as eyes in the back of one's head. The Omnicamera, developed by Shree K Nayar, associate professor, department of computer science, Columbia University, New York, views in every direction at once, leaving nothing out of view. But the real utility …
radios would receive digital broadcasting in several parts of the world that do not have access to the Internet. A large range of programmes would be available through a satellite network being developed by the us company World-Space Management Corp. The key to the programme is the large-scale production of …
Gadolinium, a rare-earth metal, is being used to create a new technology of refrigeration. The metal heats up when subjected to a magnetic field and cools down when demagnetised. This quality of the metal has been used by Karl Gschnieder, material scientist at Iowa State University, Ames, to make a …
An interlocking bed and wheelchair has been developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which could help disabled or elderly people to move from bed to chair without help. The electrically-powered wheelchair is designed to be used with a horseshoe-shaped bed, forming a system called Rhombus. It can be docked …
matters of the heart may altogether take a different turn with the possibility of the human heart being manufactured in the laboratory. Gail Naughton, president of Advanced Tissue Sciences ( ats ), the us biotech company, believes that she will soon be able to grow a human heart inside a …
increase in the use of fertilisers and cultivation of crops that 'fix' atmospheric nitrogen is leading to loss of soil nutrients, rising atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, and increasing acidification of lakes and rivers. Peter M Vitousek and eight ecologists from the Stanford University, California, say that …
The investment community is encouraged by a steady increase in the consumption of organic and natural food products in the US and western Europe. Although they have to wait for a few years, the investors believe that they can profit from the growth opportunities in this sector. Anne-Marc O'Connor, an …
US food scientists have found a way to make biodegradable packaging material from a protein extracted from corn. Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, turned
there is more to the humble cockroach than meets the eye. Recently published research shows that its faeces, saliva, and other parts of the body act as an allergen. This leads to asthma among children, and exacerbates the more serious cases. A study of hundreds of severely asthmatic children aged …
According to a study conducted by Lazzlo Bito of the Columbia University, New York, the colour of the human eye changes during adult life. His study was based on 187 pairs of twins born in 1957 in Kentucky, USA. Eye colour was recorded at the age of six and then …
