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. …
THERE is apparently more to lightning than mere white flashes of light. Excited scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Centre in Huntsville, Alaska and the University of Alaska in Fairbanks unknowingly stumbled upon bizarre bolts which materialise high above and strangely, instead of shooting downwards, they …
AN EXTRA inch or kilogram is proving to be a real bottleneck for those us astronauts wanting to hitch a ride aboard Soyuz, the Russian spacecraft. They are either too short, too tall, too fat or too thin, much to the us-based NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) discomfort. Three …
It is commonplace to find disks with gigabyte capacity. But now, two scientists, C R Stroud and M W Noel, working at Rochester University, have been able to manipulate the position of the electron in an atom. Theyplan to use it to create an atomic memory with letters written directly …
Among the known elementary particles, neutrinos are the hardest to detect and study. But now there are plans to organise 'mass migration' of neutrinos to another detector many miles away. An experiment called NuMl being conducted at Fermilab, Illinois, US will send an intense beam of neutrinos some 1,000 km …
WITH worldwide shortage of human ns for transplantation, xenotransrnt surgery is a welcome change. The Ift,Apinsfer of animal organs into humans prevent organ donors from being rived of an organ, and the right unt of money. If unlimited organs available, about 100,000 transplant cries would be conducted in the us …
THE battle to conquer this killer disease is on. Scientists work relentlessly to devise better ways of diagnosing and eliminating deadly tumours. Recently, two groups of researchers, working separately, made yet another breakthrough in this direction, reports New Scientist, Vol 148, No 1998. Two techniques were developed - one for …
FIVE years after the first human being received gene therapy to correct an inherited disease, the results are in. The Washington Post (October 21, 1995) reports that two seriously ill children who were given immune-system genes that they lacked from birth, are "healthy and thriving" now. Gene therapy is a …
A NEW technique known as minimally invasive direct coronary bypass surgery has been successfully tested last month at Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan, us. Valavanur A Subramanian performed the delicate surgery on the heart as it continued to beat, instead of putting the patient on a heart-lung machine. This was …
THE giant of the automobile industry in states - the General Motors has been caught red- sav the triumphant tal Protection Agency (EPA) w the us. The company had an emission control device in Cadillac luxury cars, which tbt vehicles to emit illegal of carbon dioxide. A suit was t …
Images and representations of boulder-size bisons, grizzly bears and wild horses of the American wild west have now been brought together in a sprawling gallery of 4,650 square meters". This entire space of the U5 wildlife art museum is devoted to sculptures) paintings and sketches of American wildlife" The uniqueness …
THE US Congress has declared a veritable war on the environment. This summer, it debated a series of rollbacks of federal laws protecting the environment. However, after losing crucial congressional battles earlier this year, environmentalists are now launching their own concerted counterattack. In the most killing blow to the environmental …
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT (ESA): Republican representatives in the K House have circulated the broad concept of the Endangered Species Conservation and Managent Act of 1995. The bill will limit illegal extermination of a species to killing the animal and will not includ habitat destruction. Republical senator from Washington, Sladl Gorton, …
IN my innocence of the false charges f face here, in my utter conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the people of the Niger delta, and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their rights," said Ken Saro-Wiwa, the 54-year-old …
Ken Saro-Wiwa, the man whoSe death has forced the international community to confront its myriad inherent weaknesses, was born in Bori, near Port Harcourt, capital of River State in Nigeria. He has been variously described as an author, environmentalist and leader of the Ogoni people; he was all this and …
ETHIOPIA, one of the poorest nations of the world, contains a treasure trove of a particular plant species - C arabica, a coffee germplasm. But it cannot develop the germplasm commercially and mint money by selling high-tech coffee varieties to the rich inclustrialised countries. This is because Escagenetics Corp, a …
Even as the recent photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope made news, radio observations made over the last three years by the NASA Deep Space Network anten- na at Goldstone, California, and the Very Large Array - a collection of radio telescopes outside Socorro, New Mtsdw - turned the spotlight …
SUN microsysterns has just released a new range of computers designed for multimedia applications on Internet and corporate networks. 'Ultra compmCTS' would provide access to three-dimensional (3-1)) 'virtual worlds', music jnd video at just half the price of today's 3-1) workstations. "Ultra computers will let you cruise the information super-highway …
THUS much maligned drug thalidomide - flushed from the market in the '60s, after a furore over birth defects associated with it - is back. Although touted as an experimental treatment for fatality inducing conditions associated with cancer, organ transplants, Alus anti other diseases, a strong anti-thalidomide lobby has emerged …
THE ardous of the window cleaners are numbered. A self-cleaning window glass is on the horizon, as described by Adam Heller of the University of Texas, Austin, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society of Chicago, held between August 20-24, 1995. A photocatalytic coating of titanium dioxide (Ti02), just …
RESEARCHERS in theus areexcited abouta recent breakthrough which links the BRCA-1 gene to most cases of breast cancer. The finding provides clin- ching evidence that establishes a connection between abnormalities in the BRCA- I and the occurence of breast cancer. just last year the scenario was quite different because scientists …
