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 world of journalism, little attention is ever paid to rural areas where almost 80 per cent of India's population resides. But now a Hindi daily published from Daltonganj, Palamau, in south Bihar, has introduced an award for rural-reporting. Rashtriya Navin Mail has instituted this award on the eve …
Using S-I-R and S-E-I-R models, it was possible to simulate two Ebola outbreaks: the 1976 outbreak in Yambuku, Zaire and the 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire. The dynamics of these models are determined by the per-capita death rate of infected individuals and the per-capita effective contact rate of an individual …
EVER since the first synthetic diamond process - the high-pressure catalytic - was perfected by General Electric i and De Beers in South Africa, the mat found many applications in industry. The remarkable mechanical prop diamond make it ideal for many pt Synthetic diamonds are extensively grinding and cutting tools …
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 …
Ivory Coast has one of the best telephone networks in Africa, yet, the Internet revolution seems to have swept past it. In fact only 12 of Africa's 54 countries are linked to the Internet, raising fears in international policy circles of a further marginalisation of the continent. The two major …
In an eco-degrading similarity with the.-, gulf war, oil fires in Sri Lanka are proving to be a health~ hazard. Recent bombings by the LTTE , re.bels has set all fo":r oil storage tanks W1th a storage capacIty of nearly 90,000 tonnes of crude, at tIle Orugodawatte complex m Colombo …
Every month countless women suffer abdominal pain caused due to the menstrual cycle. Nigel Cronin at the University of Bath, UK, has developed a microwave probe to treat this problem. The probe, inserted into the uterus, sends out heat producing microwaves of 3.3 cm wavelengths which destroy only the endometrium …
ONE of the curious facts of our universe to how it is that the deeper one in space, the more one travels in time. This is because light (or signals emitted from a distant in space take time to reach us; the signals we recieve must have ted a long …
IF THERE is One striking feature about the intellectual landscape today, it is the increasing importance of science as opposed to literature or philosophy. Scientists are at the centrestage of intellectual debates on various issues ranging from the nature of the mind to that of the universe. This is in …
AMONG infectious diseases, tuberculosis (TB) stands out as the principal exterminator of humans, with an estimated 8 million new cases and 2.9 million deaths occuring worldwide annually. The situation is particularly alarming in developing countries, where 7 per cent of all deaths, and 19 per cent of deaths of adults …
How does the idea of silk-coats leather sound? Scientists at tic National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science Japan are working to realise the ideT with the help of Indem,*3 Petrochemical Co Ltd Silk, now only made into yarn fibip has been crushed to powder forzT for coating various mate …
Foreign Companies have taken a sudden interest in Kampuchea's ageing, state-owned rubber plantations. Kampuchean officials are delighted at this development. "Today there is anarchy in the transport of the rubber," says Chhun Sareth, undersecretary of state in the ministry of agriculture. "They have to replant it or it will be …
Why do females sometimes reject transplants from males? This mysal tery was partially solved recently, when a cell marker that makes male tissues unacceptable to females was identified by two groups of sciento tists separately -one at the 1e Hammersmith Hospital in London and the other at the Leiden 101 …
THE world, as we perceive it through our senses, appears to be unitary: the final mental picture we have of the world, at any moment, is synthetic, built up from sensory impressions, received through sight and hearing primarily, as well as smell, touch and taste. In daily life, we do …
What do you think are the salient features of your book, Rajasthan ki Rajat Boonde? How does Rajasthan tackle its persistant water crisis? Given the fact that Delhi itself was on the verge of the worst ever water crisis this summer, can anyone comprehend the plight of the residents of …
LIFE probably evolved from the primeval soup some 3-4 billion years ago, when the first complex organic polymers were synthesised in the form of a small chain of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Initially the evolution of singlecell organisms like bacteria took; place and then a slow evolution of multicellular organisms occurred. …
IF WILHELM Roentgen was to see a modern medical imaging laboratory today too years after the first x-ray images he would not recognise it. From ultrasound to magnetic resonance imaging machines, from PET (positron emission tomography) scanners to radionuclides, the range of devices used today for probing the human body …
WHILE an alcoholic mother-to-be guzzles her drinks happily, the child in the womb bears the brunt. Heavy drinking during pregnancy plays havoc with the normal development of the foetus, setting in a set of birth defects called foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Although identified first in 1968, FAS remains an enigma …
China's rising income levels could literally go tip in smoke. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association maintains that lung cancer rates for the Chinese population was increasing by 4.5 per cent per annum and that 900,000 people a year could be killed by lung cancer …
GOVERNMENT and municipal hospitals in Bombay are running a high risk for doctors as no testing for HIV is done on patients. Doctors are afraid of conducting such tests because of the fear of contracting the disease themselves. The HIV test is not routinely conducted on all patients in the …
