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. …
Latest proposals by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to curb air pollution in the US has kicked up a lot of dust. The proposals are aimed at tightening air quality standards and reducing deaths and illnesses resulting from air pollution. But US citizens are not happy. In order to breathe …
One of the biggest tobacco lawsuits was set in motion in the US recently with lawyers sending notices to potential claimants. These include former and current flight attendants on US airlines consistently exposed to second-hand smoke. A mass mailing exercise has begun to identify non-smokers among 120,000 flight attendants who …
a study by Dale Bauman and William Kelly of the Cornell University in Ithaca, us, shows that supplementing a cow's diet with corn oil increases the amount of conjugated linoleic acid (cla), a fatty acid manufactured by bacteria in the cow's rumen, which helps in preventing melanoma and leukaemia. cla …
alone and uncared for? Reach out to others, or you may grow up to be disturbed and dangerous individuals, who are likely to die at a young age. This is the outcome of a recent conference organised at Georgetown University by the New York Academy of Sciences. Called
Janalee Cadwell of the University of Oklahoma, US, has been investigating South American frogs whose poisonous secretions are used to tip arrows and darts. Her researches have led to the conclusion that these amphibians are toxic not because of some biochemical synthesis within them, but because they eat a deadly …
environmental commitments made by most nations at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, five years ago, have remained on paper even as carbon dioxide emissions soared and forests and animal species continued to vanish. These are the findings of a report prepared by the Earth Council, a Washington-based …
with the end of the cold war, the formidable us military apparatus is being deployed for more peaceful purposes. us spy satellites are homing in on natural phenomena such as clouds, glaciers, deserts and tropical rainforests to yield a virtual treasure trove of information about global climatic change and ecological …
redwood Microsystems (rm), a California-based firm is looking ahead to market fluistor, the fluidic equivalent of a transistor. Fluistor regulates the flow of liquid down a pipe by squeezing it, just as a transistor uses an electrostatic field to restrict the flow of electrons. The fluister was invented in 1986 …
Two jet-powered cars, developed in the UK and the US, are being readied for a race in Nevada's Block Rock Desert next month. If all goes well, one or both will break the sound barrier on land for the first time, reaching a speed of 1,215 km per hour within …
stromatolites, considered to be the most abundant fossils in rocks representing the first two to three billion years of Earth's history, may not be fossils at all. Instead, they could very well be just fossil-like structures, as revealed by the recent findings of John Grotzinger and Daniel Rothman of the …
life existed on Earth 350 million years earlier than everyone predicted, says a researcher in California, us. It was a time when the planet was still being bombarded by meteors. Gustaf Arrhenius of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, us, claims that 3.85 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland contained …
in the specialised world of modern science, it is difficult to find cosmologists, planetary scientists and microbiologists in the same room. But a host of disciplines gathered in Washington dc, recently to discuss the expansion of work on the origins of the universe, planetary systems and life itself. The goal …
A safely tested new drug to help septuagenarians remember was disclosed at the recent annual meeting of neuroscience in Washington, US. The drug contains a new class of molecules called ampakines, which accelerate intra-cellular information. In the study, Stockholm-based men aged between 65 and 73, who took the drug scored …
Two independent Boston-based research teams have linked cigarette smoking to age related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older people. People who smoked 25 cigarettes a day suffered from AMD two and a half times more the rate as non-smokers. Even those who quit smoking developed the …
Manufacturers of silicone breast implants were vindicated recently when a us court ruled that evidences suggesting a link between silicone implants and some of the illnesses they have been blamed for, were not scientifically valid. Silicone has been blamed for a wide range of connective-tissue ailments and for damaging the …
jorge Sarmiento and Corinne Le Quere of Princeton University in New Jersey, us, have observed that warmer oceans are more stratified and cause the ocean circulation system to slow down. As a result, they absorb much less carbon dioxide (co2)
A us computer firm, Digital Equipment Corporation, was ordered to pay $5.8 million as compensation to three office workers who blamed their repetitive strain injury on keyboards manufactured by the company. It is the first computer firm in the country to be held responsible for any musculo-skeletal disorder. Hundreds of …
sparkling green: Now, Americans will be able to wash their dishes clean in a green way, thanks to an eco-friendly dishwasher launched by Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate of Germany. The company will build a factory in North Carolina, US, to produce dishwashers that promise to save water and energy. The plant will …
