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Farmers grew rice in China’s Yangtze Basin 4,000 years ago
Washington, September 18 (ANI): New findings in the form of carbonized rice have indicated that farming in the Yangtze Basin in China existed as early as 4,000 years ago.
According to a report in Epoch Times, excavation in the Xiezi Area of [...]
Pituitary tumour caused world’s tallest man’s gigantism
Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): The Turkish man crowned as the world’s tallest man suffers from a pituitary tumour which has resulted in his gigantic height.
Sultan Kosen stands eight-foot-one-inch tall and was unveiled as the tallest man in the world by the Guinness World Records.osen’s height is a result of a tumour in his [...]
Action plan to phase out consumption of HCFC is on track: Ramesh
New Delhi, Sep 16 (ANI): Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday that India has developed a comprehensive Road Map and Action Plan to phase-out of production and consumption of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in various sectors.
Addressing the gathering during the 15th [...]
Theron will not play Kidman’s wife in sex-change drama
Washington, Sep 16 (ANI): South African actress Charlize Theron has turned down a role in a new movie about the first person to undergo a sex-change operation.
Theron, 34, was to play as Gerda Wegener, the wife of artist Einar Wegener opposite Nicole Kidman, 42, in ‘The Danish Girl’, but she recently turned down the role. [...]
Scientists unravel chemistry of Titan’s hazy atmosphere
Washington, September 16 (ANI): In a new research, a team of scientists has unraveled the chemical evolution of the orange-brownish colored atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, the only solar system body besides Venus and Earth with a solid surface and thick atmosphere.
Scientists at University of Hawai’i at Manoa carried out the research.
The UH Manoa [...]
Ambika Soni reaffirms commitment to Public Service Broadcasting Trust
New Delhi, Sept 15 (ANI): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has renewed its commitment of financial support to the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), a Delhi-based NGO.
Under the plan scheme component for production of documentaries through NGOs, the Films Division would grant funds to the PSBT, which has been short-listed for production of [...]
Master gene that switches on disease-fighting cells identified
London, Sep 14 (ANI): British scientists have identified the master gene, called E4bp4, that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting ‘Natural Killer’ (NK) immune cells.
The discovery, by researchers at Imperial College London, UCL and the Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research, could one day help scientists boost the body’s production of [...]
New test to detect tainted milk
Washington, Sept 13 (ANI): Researchers have developed a simple test that would help detect tainted milk within few hours.
Amer AbuGhazaleh, from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s College of Agricultural Sciences, and Salam Ibrahim, a food microbiologist from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, have shown that the combination of certain bacteria and a common purple [...]
Climate change is faster in Arctic than in any other location on Earth
Washington, September 13 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland have participated in two new studies, which indicate that climate change is progressing faster in Arctic areas than in any other location on Earth.
The study results indicate that the Arctic eco-system has experienced immense changes in the last twenty years.
At many levels, the [...]
US accepts Iranian offer to hold discussions
Washington, Sep. 11 (ANI): The United States has accepted Iran’s proposal to hold talks, despite the Islamic republic announcing that it would not bring its future nuclear programs on the discussions table.
The decision to engage directly with Iran would put a senior representative of the Obama administration at the bargaining table, along with emissaries from [...]
US accepts Iranian offer to hold discussions
Washington, Sep. 11 (ANI): The United States has accepted Iran’s proposal to hold talks, despite the Islamic republic announcing that it would not bring its future nuclear programs on the discussions table.
The decision to engage directly with Iran would put a senior representative of the Obama administration at the bargaining table, along with emissaries from [...]
World’s most advanced CT scanner to see through solids
Washington, September 11 (ANI): Researchers at The University of Nottingham, UK, have created the most advanced 3D X-ray micro Computed Tomography (CT) scanner in the world, which will help scientists from a wide variety of departments across the University [...]
Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke linked to liver disease
Washington, September 11 (ANI): People can develop liver disease even when they are exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke, according to a study.
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have found that exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke can lead to non-alcoholic fatty [...]
Cooperative factories must help in ensuring sugar availability: Pawar
New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday urged cooperative sugar factories to play a more pro-active role and shoulder the responsibility of importing more raw sugar, not only for better utilization of their processing capacity, but [...]
Authorities promote blackberry production among Uttarakhand farmers
Nainital, Sep 9 (ANI): In an initiative to promote European blackberry production in Uttarakhand, the state government have authorities distributed saplings of the fruit among farmers across the street.
Blackberry is not sown in the country, but the prospect of [...]
Untimely mangoes in Gujarat
Valsad (Gujarat), Sep 9 (ANI): For mango growers in Valsad in Gujarat, things take an unusual turn, trees in their orchards have flowered and some are laden with fruits much before usual time.
Mango lovers can be happy that they can get farm picked mangoes in winter, but farmers are confused as to rejoice or [...]
Aptara meets increasing business growth with new delivery center
New Delhi, Sept 9 (ANI/Business Wire India): Aptara, Inc., a market leader in knowledge process outsourcing, today announced a major new delivery facility in Trivandrum, India. This leading-edge facility will be home to a Publishing Center of Excellence and to hundreds of professionals who provide advanced editorial, composition and production management services to Aptara’s key [...]
Rose McGowan loses elbow part during new film stunt
Washington, Sep 9 (ANI): Rose McGowan has lost some part of her elbow after suffering serious injury on the sets of her new film ‘Red Sonja’, which is being directed by her fiance Robert Rodriguez.
While last year, the ‘Scream’ star was quite upbeat about her stunts in the she-devil comic book adaptation, but now her [...]
Aquaculture accounts for 50 percent of fish consumed globally
Washington, September 8 (ANI): A new report by an international team of researchers has determined that aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally.
The findings are published in the Sept. 7 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
“Aquaculture is set to reach [...]
Researchers make bacteria to produce useful proteins
Washington, Sep 7 (ANI): Researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus into a protein production factory by adapting a single protein on its surface, thus making useful proteins that can act as vaccines and drugs.
C. crescentus is a harmless bacterium that has a single protein layer on its surface. [...]
