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. …
In the first case of its kind, a US rancher has sued Oprah Winfrey, the popular talk show hostess, alleging that her broadcast of April 16, 1996 had cost him US $6.7 million in lost sales of beef. A recently passed law in 13 US states gives cattle-ranchers and farmers …
when it comes to building new structures, human ingenuity is no match for nature, especially living cells. Even at the simplest level, molecules assemble into amino acids, then into proteins, which in turn form a variety of different structures. But now, with the work of Samuel Stupp of the University …
a battery has been developed by researchers at John Hopkins University that is made entirely of plastic. This is being considered a significant breakthrough. An all-plastic battery was considered an impossibility a few years ago. Plastic is an electrical insulator and previous attempts at producing all-plastic batteries were marred by …
A thin polymer film with a pressure-sensitive adhesive would be used as a coating for US fighter planes. This is meant to replace the conventional paint which adds to the weight of the aircraft. Developed jointly by Boeing and 3M, the film, called appliqu
though superconductivity was discovered by the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes about 85 years ago, it remains an enigma in many ways. The discovery of high temperature superconductivity and the numerous potential applications, from more powerful particle accelerators to high speed trains have been responsible for the enormous amount of …
Bruce Railsback of Georgia University, Athens, USA, has concluded that lightning increases the acidity in rain. This was discovered while studying the change in the acidity of rainfall during a storm. Railsback gathered 132 samples of falling rain at intervals of 90 seconds in north-eastern Georgia. Samples collected while thunder …
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, California, have announced the fabrication of the worlds' strongest magnet. The new magnet creates a field of 13.5 tesla which beats the previous record of 11 tesla. The seven-tonne magnet comprises a superconducting alloy of niobium and tin, which is put into copper cable. …
The longest court case in Britain's history ended in a costly victory for McDonald's Corp of the US when two British environmental activists were ordered to pay the company US $98,000 in damages. The case cost the company a whopping US$16 million. In a trial that lasted for 314 days, …
neil armstrong had described his landing on the moon as "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". Thrill-spilling Hollywood movies like Independence Day, Contact, Men in Black and Mars Attacks , has romanticised this leap by depicting how mysteries of a different world come virtually true. …
barely a year after its introduction in California, re-formulated petrol ( rfg ) is being hailed as the most effective means to check air pollution from automobiles since the catalytic converter. rfg accounts for 30 per cent of the us market, according to the Arco Oil group. They say that …
after the demolition of Newport Number ii dam on the Clyde river in Newport, Vermont, in last autumn, now there is a recent spate of dam-busting sweeping the us . According to jubilant campaigners, it took two years of intensive lobbying by people living near the dam on the Clyde …
Peach Berry Clarity: Clear Your Mind: Gotu Kola from India, enhances clarity & meditation, heavenly with peach and blackberry juices - thus reads the label attached to the bottles containing this concoction. Further, the write-up by the California-based Mrs. Wiggles Rocket Juice Company, the producer of this exotic drink, states …
with a view to curbing the spread of Russian nuclear technology to other countries, the us department of energy will be funding the development of a new nuclear reactor design at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. The us will provide a new technology that makes use of radioactive thorium instead …
recently in the us , powerful new aids drugs called protease inhibitors have been reported to reduce the lethal virus in the blood of an hiv-positive person. Instead of planning a funeral, the patient can now very well look forward to an exciting future and a more paying job. A …
INSTEAD of lowering environmental degradation along the 3,218-km Mexico-us border, the North American Free Trade Agreement has only worsened the problem. The Mexican region has become an ideal location for polluting us companies because of weak enforcement of environment4l laws. The town of Matamoros on the Mexican side of the …
MANY girls in the us are starting puberty far earlier than is widely considered normal, according to a recently published report of the first large-scale, multi-racial study conducted by Marcia E Herman-Giddens, professor of maternal and child health at the Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina. …
THAT the administration of the female hormone oestrogen to post-menopausal women prevents the tribulations associated with the painful process of menopause, has been common knowledge since the late 60s. Many women and their physicians considered this hormone as the closest thing in modern medicine to aIn elixir ofyouth, a drug …
A new study has revealed that some boxers are genetically predisposed to suffer brain damage due to blows taken on the head. The findings were presented at the World Boxing Council's first medical conference on boxing safety at the Caribbean island of Aruba by Barry JordAn, a neurologist at the …
JavaSoft, the California-based division of Sun Microsystems, has developed a new software that promises to breathe new life into old personal computers (PCs) and extend the working lives of machines destined for the scrapyard. Developed under an internal programme called Project Rescue, JavaPC converts a PC running on MSDOS software …
