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Toxins
Wake up and smell the air
@sunitanar Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
Our health is not on anybody’s agenda. Or, we just don’t seem to make the connections between the growing burden of disease and the deteriorating condition of our environment. We don’t really believe the science, which tells us each passing day how toxins affect our bodies, leading to high rates of both morbidity and mortality.
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2012
PHYSICS
Fishy behaviour
Survival of silvery fishes like sardines depend on their ability to reflect maximum light and remain nearly invisible to predators. But it is well known that reflective surfaces polarise light, a process which should have made the fish visible. The fish owe their survival to the presence of two types of crystals in their skin.
India’s Minamata
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2012
Saraju Nisha sits at the door of her house, about 500 metres from a mountain of coal mine waste in Chilika Daad village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district. The 60-year-old former miner is in deep pain.
Ground reality
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2012
Chemical confusion
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
Pray before you spray
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
LOVE to sweeten the air in your room with fresheners? Beware. A study has found that people who use air fresheners or other household cleaning products which contain aerosol propellants, formaldehyde, as little as once a week, experience reduced heart rate variability (HRV)—a condition linked to heart attack and high blood pressure.
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
MICROBIOLOGY
Algae against malaria
The new obesity
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2012
Big size, bigger benefits
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2012
BROWN rice is considered healthy because it is rich in micronutrients. But this nutritious grain is under threat from arsenic. The plum brown rice accumulates more arsenic than the longer rice varieties like Basmati. Intake of arsenic could increase the risk of lung and bladder cancers.
