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International Relations And Cooperation Deputy Minister Says Focus on Humanitarian Law
The protection of civilians, including children in armed conflict countries, must remain a priority of the United Nations system, says International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister, Ebrahim Ebrahim.
Ecologists Use 70-year-old Pressed Plants to Chart City’s Vanishing Native Flora
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in Indianapolis, USA have used 70 year-old dried plant specimens to track...
Statistics Can Help Us Avoid Counterfeit Goods on the Internet, Study Shows
Consumers need to know the true perils of purchasing artwork or luxury goods on the Internet, say statisticians in a paper published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. Currently...
Over-fertilizing Corn Undermines Ethanol
Rice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less. A new paper in today’s online edition of the American Chemical Society’s journal Environmental Science and Technology shows...
Study Finds That Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Greatly Reduces Infant Mortality
In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that prove that the use of fetal heart rate monitors lowers the rate...
Air Pollutants From Fireplaces And Wood-burning Stoves Raise Health Concerns
Danish scientists, in a study published in American Chemical Society’s journal, Chemical Research in Toxicology, found that the invisible particles inhaled into the lungs from breathing wood smoke from fireplaces have multiple adverse effects. Science...
Anti-estrogen Medication Reduces Risk of Dying From Lung Cancer
A new study has found that tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen breast cancer medication, may reduce an individual’s risk of death from lung cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study supports...
Prakash Jha And Sudhir Mishra Join Hands For ‘Inkaar’
Two powerhouse directors, Prakash Jha and Sudhir Mishra, are coming together to make a film on the burning topic of sexual harassment of women at work places. The film, titled Inkaar, will boast of Jha as its producer while Mishra will take on to the...
