Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
BRITISH scientists claim to have unravelled the mystery that enables corals, sea urchins and other marine invertebrates to build complicated crystalline structures from calcium carbonate dissolved in sea water, and are now using the trick to develop their own weirdly shaped crystals. The researchers say that this could be a …
British scientists have developed an artificial hand that is as deft at handling objects as a real one. Homer Rahnejat and Russel Speight of the Bradford University in northern England, in association with Medi Mehdian of the Greenwich University, London, have constructed a prototype hand that has 16 degrees of …
A HAU-INCH long parasite that thrives on blood extracted ftom the gut of the host, the hookworm is playing havoc with the health of about 900 million people worldwide, predominantly in the Third World. According to the World Health Organization, the parasite affects 132 million people in Africa, 104 million …
MICROCHIPS form the basis of several devices, such as Min (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners and pacemakers, which have revolutionised medical diagnosis and treatment. Now, microchips may also provide relief to many people suffering from blindness. Researchers working on the Project for a Retinal Implant, a joint effort of the Massachusetts …
THE role of the umbilical cord as a foetus's lifeline does not end with birth. Researchers in the us and Europe now say that the cord blood can provide a new lease of life to siblings suffering from potentially fatal diseases like leukaemia and even AlDs and also from disorders …
A RECENT study has revealed that after a period of heavy nuclear testing, a large number of babies with Down's syndrome were born in FyIde area of Lancashire in the UK. it also showed that a fire at the nearby Windscale (now Sellafield) nuclear power station in 1957 preceded a …
A MATERIAL developed by a group of materials scientists and surgeons may take away much of the pain in treating fractures. Led by Brent Constantz of the Norian Corp. in Cupertino, California, the team claims that Norian SRS (SRs stands for skeletal repair system) can be prepared as a paste …
Low levels of important nutrients like selenium can turn a benign virus into its virulent form, claim American scientists. Researchers Melinda Beck and her colleagues at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, say that Keshan disease - a fatal virusinduced disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscles …
Try defining consciousness and, like the proverbial 6 blind men trying to describe an elephant, you end up with an embarrassment of choices. Is it a complex symphony created by a neural orchestra, a grand equation arrived at by the logical computations of the brain, a confidential world authored by …
Is consciousness merely a ghost conjured by neurons? During the last decade or so, the idea that inner speech, or the human mind's ability to talk to itself, could fashion consciousness, has made a marked dent on psychologists' perceptions about consciousness. Support for this idea is flowing in from diverse …
Is consciousness unique to us or are animals also conscious of their existence? In her latest book Through Our Eyes Only? Mario Stamp Dawkins, a lecturer at Oxford University, makes a careful case for the conscious chicken, marshalling evidence from years of research into the way chickens behave. Her main …
While neuroscientists look for the secret of consciousness in thinking, a psychologist Nicholas Humphrey has put forward the concept that senses or feelings hold the key to the most elusive of the mind's mysteries. Thinking was considered uniquely human, until the British mathematician Alan Turing's hypothesis that thoughts could be …
RESEARCHERS are contemplating the use of pig organs in order to overcome human donor organ shortage. The pig organs - such as hearts, kidneys, pancreatic glands - will be extensively researched and ready for use probably within 3 years, they contend. Pigs have been selected because their organs are about …
RESEARCHERS from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in A Oakland, California, have linked smoking with facial wrinkling among Whites and say that women may be more susceptible S, than men (American Journal of Public Health, Vol 85, No 1). The research team led by 00 Virginia L Ernster, decided on …
A NEW study by the Harvard Medical School (the first of its kind) -- presented recently to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali -- warns of an alarming rise in mental health problems in developing nations, caused by changing demographic, political and economic conditions, wars, natural disasters and abuse of women …
Plastic and protein have joined hands for the common good of humankind. Jon Cooper and his colleagues at the University of Glasgow's Bio-Electronics Research Centre, Scotland, have successfully connected a polymer that conducts electricity to cytochrome c, a protein that plays a vital role in respiration, opening a simple way …
In a significant development towards tackling brain disorders, American researchers claim to have successfully transplanted immature brain cells in mice to treat a genetic brain abnormality similar to one that may cause mental retardation in humans. Evan Smith of the Harvard Medical School and John Wolfe of the University of …
DOES'vasectomy lead to prostate cancer in the long run? Conflicting findings of studies abroad led the Indian Council of Medical Research to initiate in August 1994 a comprehensive hospital based study. Due for completion in 2 years, the study is part of a World Health Organization multicountry evaluation which aims …
AS PEOPLE, particularly women, grow old, they shrink. The humped back is the result of osteoporosis - a potentially lethal disease in which the bone mass withers. But now, a new generation of drugs, bone "paste" and hormones may soon bring relief. Osteoporosis affects 200 million people worldwide. In its …
TANKARDS-full of green tea are good for the liver and the heart, say researchers from the department of epidemiology, Saitama Cancer Research Institute, Japan. Green tea is different from brown tea in the way the 2 are processed- green tea does not undergo fermentation, because of which its contents of …
