Putting cancer to sleep
Scientists believe it could be possible to lull cancer cells into a state of everlasting sleep. A team of scientists at the Paterson Institute in Manchester are now investigating whether it is possible to use a chemical "lullaby" to check this uncontrolled growth in cancer cells.
The world becomes less wonderful
According to Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University, all tropical glaciers are retreating at an accelerating pace. They are, he says,"an indicator of massive changes taking place".
Plea to stop using endosulfan
'Thanal,' a Thiruvananthapuram-based Conservation Action group, has urged the World Cashew Congress, which began today, to exert pressure on Plantation Corporation of Kerala to depend on organic manures instead of the aerial spraying of the 'restricted' pesticide endosulfan over the cashew plantations in Kasargod district.
Light cigarettes still harmful
Light cigarettes, as well as new slow-burning and other 'safer' varieties that claim to reduce health risks, may be just as harmful as conventional cigarettes, according to a major report by the US National Academy of Sciences.
Now a winter wind can blow in an income
Wind farming has become a useful diversification for farmers and landowners in UK at a time when more conventional methods of earning a living from the land are struck in the doldrums. The tall turbines with their slowly wheeling rotors are an archetype of environmental and political correctness.
Scientists put human brain cells in mice
US scientists have produced laboratory mice in which as much as a quarter of the brain cells are human. The development could carry promise for treating disease but poses questions about the boundaries between people and animals. The "chimaeric brain" experiment-was carried out in California by Irving Weissman of Stanford …
How and why of earth's biggest extinction
Researchers analysis the chemistry of ancient deposits in China and Japan concluded that a space rock three to seven miles across smashed into the earth about 251 million years ago, the time of the Permian-triassic extinction event. The study appears Friday in the hournal Science. In what has been called …
Kannur power project: HC dismisses petition
Kannur Power Project chairman K P P Nambiar's petition for a direction to the State Government to grant approval to the company to have EI Paso Energy as a co-promoter is premature, a division bench of the Kerala High Court today concurred with the Single Judge.
Ex-ministers implicated in tree-felling contract
The Secretary at Nepal's Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation Rabi Bahadur Bista, passed the buck on to the former ministers for the complications in the extension of tree-felling contract in Dadeldhura district, Far-Western Nepal.
Bowring hospital conducts first knee replacement surgery
The Lady Curzon and Bowring Hospital in the City has successfully performed a knee replacement surgery on a woman and it is the first government hospital in the State to perform this complex surgery.