Tudomány

Tudomány

Anxiety: its mechanism and some advices

Anxiety is a normal response to stress and danger; it increases your ability to focus, helps to prepare for action and can improve your performance. Therefore a certain amount of anxiety, on occasions and when is very much appropriate is very much part of being human.

B vitamins in the prevention and treatment of disease

When we were kids, all of us remember being told to eat green vegetables. Our parents emphasized that eating our greens would make us grow big and strong. Scientists now believe that Vitamin B9, known as folic acid, which is present in majority of vegetables, is in fact a very important vitamin and may have major benefits in the prevention and treatment of disease.

New report says children can recover from autism

Autistic spectrum disorders such as autism, pervasive developmental disorder and aspergers syndrome are a group of disorders that affect social and communication skills. The spectrum itself is wide, with some forms of autism showing significant delay in cognitive development, others such as Aspergers showing little to no delay.

Growing Significance of IT/IT Enabled Services in India and APAC

India and APAC have hogged limelight in the global business scenario. Thanks to the stupendous demand for IT and ITES. Economists and industry experts forecast high growth rate. Often, journalists are quoting phrases like “The Raising Dragon” and “The Future belongs to emerging economies” in related news reports. The ‘Wheel of Fortune’ seems to shift from West to East. Conventional economic policies have ensured that India and APAC were least affected during the recession, while the western nations almost tumbled. Despite the dependence on western countries, India and APAC were insulated from the economic turmoil (to a reasonable extent).

Climate Change Threatens Giant Pandas’ Bamboo Buffet

China’s endangered wild pandas may need new dinner reservations--and quickly, based on models that indicate climate change may kill off swaths of bamboo that pandas need to survive.

Stopping tomato ripening by antisense technology

The concept of antisense technology came into existence in 1978 and has proven to be a breakthrough in treatment of various diseases and also to some extent in plant biotechnology. Amongst the many favorable uses of this technology is its use in production of antisense drugs for curing diseases like lung cancer, diabetes, asthma, colorectal carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma etc.

Scientists Across U.S. Launch Study of Thunderstorm Effects on Upper Atmosphere

Scientists are targeting thunderstorms in Alabama, Colorado and Oklahoma this spring to discover what happens when clouds suck air many miles into the atmosphere from Earth's surface.

Cellular Secrets of Plant Fatty Acid Production Understood

A curious twist in a family of plant proteins called chalcone-isomerase recently was discovered by Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientist Joseph Noel and colleagues at Iowa State University led by Eve Wurtele.

OFF WE GO!

The famous phrase pronounced by Yuri Gagarin at the very moment of launching the spacecraft.

New Insights Into Dark Energy and Neutrinos by South Pole Telescope

Analysis of data from the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) in Antarctica provides new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy, the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.