Science & Mathematics

• Disaster Management 8/24/2008 8:50:53 AM
  In Earth Sciences & Geology, By: Payal Jain
  Earthquakes are considered to be one of the most dangerous and destructive natural hazards. The impact of this phenomenon is sudden and without any warning. Epidemiologically earthquakes are caused due to fracturing of rocks in the earth’s crust .
  
  
• Much Hyped Global Warming 8/9/2008 8:23:55 AM
  In Environment & Ecology, By: Payal Jain
  Global warming is a term which we all have heard it many times but not many of us understand it. In general terms, it is the heating up of the earth, but to an economic analyst and scientific community it is more than heating phenomenon.
  
  
• Importance Of Vanamahotsava 8/9/2008 8:19:44 AM
  In Environment & Ecology, By: Payal Jain
  The forest, the trees the flora and the fauna housing in and around us all are our kinsmen. These do deserve protection and preservation. Some fifty eight years back first Vanamahostava was celebrated globally.
  
  
• Cleaning The Environment-The Family Way 7/29/2008 8:00:35 AM
  In Environment & Ecology, By: Payal Jain
  Children are reminders of our best and worst habits. For example, I can't stand it when I see anyone throw garbage on the road, in a park or anywhere but in a proper disposal bin.
  
  
• Climate Action 7/29/2008 7:59:25 AM
  In Weather, By: Payal Jain
  By carrying out the deliberations behind closed doors the panel of Indian experts who prepared the climate action report-eminent persons in the environment field have obviously aroused misgivings among the civil society groups.
  
  
• Coal And Climate 7/29/2008 7:58:04 AM
  In Weather, By: Payal Jain
  This week, a Georgia court in USA, halted the Construction of a new 1,200 megawatt coal-fired power plant because its supporters could not provide a plan to limit climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions from it.
  
  
• Global Climate Change 7/23/2008 5:16:00 AM
  In Environment & Ecology, By: Payal Jain
  With the advent of 19th Century, there happened rapid development in the scientific knowledge and put to use in every sphere of life and shift of the economy towards the system of mass production and new products were developed to satisfy needs.
  
  
• The Importance Of Research 7/22/2008 10:41:21 AM
  In Science & Mathematics, By: Payal Jain
  “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Most of the really big inventions, creations, paradigm shifting ideas, etc, were not the result of overnight answering questions.
  
  
• Solar Energy 7/22/2008 10:36:52 AM
  In Physics, By: Payal Jain
  There is enough power in the sun to light up thousands of homes. With the present technology and current prices of electrical energy in the country, a full-blown conversion to solar energy would prove very expensive.
  
  
• Radiation Sources And Agriculture 7/22/2008 10:17:34 AM
  In Physics, By: Payal Jain
  Scientists and technologists use radiation and radioisotopes in a few hundred research and agricultural institutions in India. Fertilizers are expensive; inefficient and improper use of fertilizers can damage the environment.
  
  
• Indian Medical Tourism Industry-Part I 7/22/2008 9:52:58 AM
  In Medicine, By: Payal Jain
  It was the year 2003, when two-year-old Noor Fatima arrived in India with her parents on the Lahore-Delhi bus service to undergo a heart surgery. Noor’s case opened up a new avenue for India’s healthcare sector, awakening people to its potential.
  
  
• Indian Medical Tourism Industry-Part II 7/22/2008 9:50:40 AM
  In Medicine, By: Payal Jain
  Doctors in India get a lot of queries for kidney transplants, cosmetic surgeries and ayurvedic treatments. Different hospitals have different strategies to attract patients.
  
  
• Earth Moving Ahead For A Disaster 7/22/2008 9:37:20 AM
  In Earth Sciences & Geology, By: Payal Jain
  It is estimated that one billion people of the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. The majority of hungers deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition as the families facing extreme poverty are simply unable to get enough food to eat.
  
  
• Bias Over Biofuel 7/1/2008 9:55:29 AM
  In Chemistry, By: Payal Jain
  It has not been very long that bio-fuel was hailed as the best and the cheapest alternative to fossil fuel, which has been not only depleting fast but also reaching staggering rice levels.
  
  
• Blessed With Batteries 6/25/2008 9:43:31 AM
  In Physics, By: Payal Jain
  Can you name one thing that makes the world so connected and functional? It’s the batteries. Imagine if there were no batteries in the world. No mobile phones. No laptops. No cars.
  
  
• Environmental Education 6/25/2008 9:37:19 AM
  In Environment & Ecology, By: Payal Jain
  Ecological degradation has become a worldwide problem. Man himself is responsible for this destruction, as mankind is fast zeroing on to the inescapable fallout of the ecological time bomb.
  
  
• Handling Illness Of New Borns-Part I 6/20/2008 8:02:44 AM
  In Science & Mathematics, By: Payal Jain
  Parents are very caring for their children and if they are newly born and especially if it’s their first child, they just don’t want to take any kind of chance and even a sneeze of the child is enough to make them worry.
  
  
• New Developments In The Energy Sector 6/14/2008 9:57:45 AM
  In Physics, By: Payal Jain
  While nuclear policy planners and parliamentarians are debating the pros and cons of the Indo- US civil nuclear cooperation agreement, scientists and engineers at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), are leaping forward.
  
  
• Light Emitting Diodes(LED) 6/14/2008 9:47:44 AM
  In Engineering, By: Payal Jain
  Light emitting diodes, commonly called LEDs, are one of the important inventions in the electronic world but we have not heard much of them. They do dozens of different jobs and are found in all kinds of devices.
  
  
• Environment Today 6/14/2008 7:31:57 AM
  In Environment & Ecology, By: Payal Jain
  Environment refers to a slim total of all the conditions and influences that affect the life and development of organisms. Life on the planet earth has been possible only -because of its environment resources like Forest, Water, Mineral, Food, etc.