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 …
Serge Renaud, the French scientist who had earlier proved that drinking wine is a heart-friendly activity, recently came up with some more heartening news for wine lovers. According to him, two to three glasses of wine per day keeps no, not the doctor, but death away. Yes, if Renaud's claims …
in the not-so-distant future, a new born's umbilical cord may symbolise a new lease of life for patients suffering from terminal diseases. A team of biologists at Tata Memorial Centre's Cancer Research Institute (cri) in Mumbai, India, has developed an inexpensive alternative for invasive and often-precarious procedure of bone marrow …
altering the brain's electrical signals with magnets may some day help people recover after severe injuries such as strokes and amputations. Researchers have recently proved that magnetic fields can change how our brain forms new neural connections. The human brain's ability to rewire itself, called brain plasticity by the experts, …
ever since Barry Marshall from Australia showed that stomach ulcer is caused by a germ and not by behavioural traits, there has been much progress on controlling this disease. Recent reports claim that the humble ulcer-causing bacterium may well be controlled by an oral vaccine. Furthermore, unlike all conventional vaccines …
Richard Seed is an expert on seeds. Twenty years ago he used to transfer embryos from one cow to another. Then he began to use the same techniques on women. Then he shocked the world by announcing that he would like to clone human babies for desperate couples. This brought …
Girls migh be talkative, but it is not their fault. They are born like that. Recently conducted research shows that baby girls are born more advanced than their male counterparts. Peter G Hepper and his colleagues from the Foetal Behavioural Research Centre at Queen's University of Belfast, UK, examined 39 …
researchers have managed to prepare a mighty arsenal of drugs to combat aids as the global war against the disease nears its third decade. Studies have led to the development of potent cocktails of anti- hiv drugs that unleash a powerful counter attack, pounding down billions of virus particles to …
researchers in France have found a secondary genetic mutation that could help provide resistance to the aids virus. Alberto Beratto of St Joseph's hospital, Paris, and Luc Montagnier of the prestigious Pasteur Institute
Surendra Rohtagi, a Kanpur-based medical expert, is on the verge of a breakthrough for a treatment for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The fight against the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has received a shot in the arm, thanks to this Indian doctor. Rohtagi was recently granted a patent for …
scottish researchers have developed a heat-sensitive bra with an electronic memory chip that can successfully detect premenopausal breast cancer. The Chronobra was developed by Hugh W. Simpson, pathologist at the Royal Infirmary at Glasgow, who claims that it can be an alternative to Mammography. Simpson speculates that the breast temperature …
patients with blocked blood vessels in their legs could soon be treated with the help of gene therapy. Jeffrey Isner and his colleagues at St Elizabeth's Hospital and the Tufts University School of Medicine near Boston, usa, report that patients would be able to grow their own bypasses after the …
studies have shown that the problem of obsessive compulsive disorders ( ocds) in most people starts in childhood. Patients suffering from the disease develop odd behaviours such as checking things again and again, showing jerky movements after a brief illness or head injury, or spinning around a set number of …
two prostitutes in Kenya have a surprising resistance to aids . Researchers at a clinic in the Majengo slum on the outskirts of Nairobi say that Hawa Chelangat, 34, and Hadija Chemutai, 31, are immune to hiv . They are cousins, divorced, desperately poor and have been working as prostitutes …
nerve cells help detect an object even if it has been seen just once. They are stimulated by vision, but continue to respond in the dark as if the stimulus is present and visible. M S A Graziano and his colleagues of the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, usa , …
A team of researchers led by Ehud Ahissar of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, says that the brain always keeps track of changing frequencies of neurones like a Frequency Modulator (FM) radio. Information is passed in form of electrical pulses to the processing centre in the cortex. …
x-ray is an important diagnostic tool in medical science But researchers have been facing the problem of focusing these beams since ordinary lenses do not bend them. Now, J Golovchenko and C Liu at the Harvard University, usa , have used a curved wall of polished silicon to bend the …
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the us have abandoned plans to use dummy pills in an experiment on Ethiopian women who are pregnant and infected with the aids virus. The use of the dummy pills as a placebo has renewed the intense debate over the ethics …
diabetes patients may not require to take painful insulin injections to regulate their blood sugar levels. Researchers at Eli Lilly & Co, usa , have developed a method so that patients would merely have to breathe insulin for it to reach the targeted part of the body. The process involves …
