Nov 3 2007
Measuring the Earth’s crust’s magnetic signature is no new for the geologists. They have been doing this for decades, but by a multitude of groups. But, it was not easy to view a truly worldwide phenomenon using groups. So, of late, the...
Nov 2 2007
Be it a weekend party or a fancy private dinner with your beloved, a few best delicacies, good music and a fine wine adore it. But, what about the much dreaded pounding headache that usually follows the party moments after a sip to that red wine...
Nov 2 2007
Climate change has already spread its tentacles in all corners of the world, and its gruesome aftereffects can be well-felt, worrying scientists of the forthcoming devastations. Amidst the rise in sea levels, disappearance of British butterflies,...
Nov 2 2007
Imagine a rodent or a mouse, weighing half of normal mice with 90 percent less body fat, but can eat 60 percent more than the ordinary mice! Sounds like a children-fiction character? No, it is a ‘real’ mouse straight from the laboratory,...
Nov 2 2007
Already struggling with HIV for decades, trying to snatch life from the deadly ailment, the sub-Saharan Africans now have yet another monster to fight away — tuberculosis. The region being undoubtedly the most affected by the virus, inhabited...
Oct 31 2007
Recycling newspaper is no new an idea - be it for a noble cause towards the environment or to make life cost-effective. But, transforming these shabby grey papers into jewelries might hardly been a designer’s fantasy. But, the above fascinating...
Oct 31 2007
After the government’s go-ahead to Kent’s world’s largest offshore wind farm and the Contact Energy’s proposed giant wind farm south of Port Waikato this month, it is now the turn of South Dakota to be in the competition to...
Oct 31 2007
The U.S. Countians seem to be enthusiastically gearing up to help paint the planet green. This is well revealed by the state of Kentucky’s Whitley county residents’ efforts. It all happened last week with 30 volunteers – the...
Oct 18 2007
The frequency of nerve injury is one in every 1,000 of the population, which is 50,000 cases in the UK, every year! - with their eventually being left with the disability for the rest of their life. Even people who have had undergone organ...
Oct 10 2007
Through ages, the ‘World of Chemistry’ has increased our understanding of not just the chemical processes, but also their molecular basis. It was the saga since the beginning of the last century; the Chemistry Nobel Laureates have...