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Children under the age of three are generally more vulnerable to food allergy. And, as a solution, parents have to avoid problematic food as the only treatment, which again deprive them of some necessary diets! Here is a breath of relief for the…

Europe is ready to launch its most sophisticated weather and climate satellite — the Metop spacecraft — to date. Kazakhstan will soon witness its launch from its land into its 850km-high polar orbit. A Soyuz-Fregat vehicle will be carrying it to…

With the fashion world, gradually taking up with the buzzword ‘eco-friendly’, Levi’s does not seem to be staying behind in the race. It is for the first time in more than 100 years, Levi’s blue jeans are going green!

Hold your patience till next…

Now scientists at the British Isles would be exploiting the lunar power to tap energy in a cheaper way. True, the gravitational pull of the moon on our oceans create strong tidal flows, enabling engineers to tap them with undersea turbines. But, it…

Managing a swimming pool is no joke, especially when it comes to the pocket. It may cost an operator a huge amount every year. So, people planning to open up swimming pools, cheer up! Siemens have come up with an energy-efficient automated swimming…

Pix: Conceptual design of the planned solar installation, created using Google Earth and Sketch Up

Google after launching a few ‘green’ projects has planned to turn its headquarters in Mountain View, CA ‘green’. It will be installing solar panels…

The Monster Cane – a new variety of sugarcane – will now be grown not only for sugar, raising cattle and fertilizing farmland, but also for producing ethanol from it to fuel cars on a test field on the tiny island of Ie in Japan’s southernmost…

Pix: The scanning electron micrograph at left shows an overview of the silicon track, designed to coax the bacteria into moving in a uniform direction around the circular tracks. In the center, two cells glide along the wall in the track. The…

Though it is the foundation of the aquatic food web, the very densely populated ‘micro-algae’ lead to low oxygen ‘dead zones’, killing fish and many species too risk human health.

Thus, for protecting their communities, coastal managers need to…

This rocking-chair is highly weather-resistant and eco-friendly. The chair is made from reclaimed plastics — include milk containers and other post-consumer polymers – which would otherwise have headed for the landfill, adding to the already…