Nov 15 2007
Do you know, up to 7.5 percent of school-aged children are generally affected with Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD)? And to add to the crisis, the parents of 7 percent of children 6-11 years of age are being told by a doctor of their child having the...
Nov 15 2007
Using cloning to produce monkey embryos and then extracting stem cells from them reminds of yet another so-called ‘breakthrough’ in the field of science research where South Korean researchers reported making stem cells from cloned human embryos three...
Nov 15 2007
The aerodrome runways need to be kept clear of debris that could eventually be drawn into engines or damage aircraft systems. But then, this requires huge man power and sensitive debris detecting devices to keep an eye across each corner of a runaway,...
Nov 15 2007
Was our world contained in a grain of sand? True, this is a poet’s composition, but how many of us bother to take this poetic rendition seriously as science? Perhaps none, but its time to take it seriously! Yes, it was flowing sand grains that might...
Nov 15 2007
Sometimes when you are left pondering on what to do, where to go for dinner or a movie in an area you are new in, you might wish for the right and effective guide or a friend. But, how would it be when your mobile phone assists you with all these...
Nov 15 2007
The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth — Pleiades — seems to be ever happening, now that small, rocky planets may be in the making in the cluster! It is all happening...
Nov 15 2007
Bringing a fish out of water means “its dead”, and most of us are aware of the fact and this is a matter of worry even for scientists who foresee a drought-struck world with big major rivers dramatically drying up. But, here seems to be a ray of...
Nov 15 2007
It was in 2006, the United States was struck hard by hunger! An overall of 35.52 million people — including 12.63 million children — went hungry that year. But, it was eventually checked at this point, but that was not enough — more...
Nov 14 2007
The earth’s crust and its elevation seems to be changing at a increasing pace than ever before along with the climate and temperature across the world. It hardly needs more than two generations to spot the distinct changes. The caldera floor of the...
Nov 14 2007
Here is yet another answer to the malarial epidemic as well as crop infestation — scorpion! Yes, now the deadly arachnids’ toxins can be put to better use, then to put other insects, animals and humans to death. Researchers have used scorpion...