| Those who are not aware of ancient Indian knowledge question me: HRD Minister Pokhriyal
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| Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has said that some people criticise him as they are not able to digest his highlights about ancient Indian inventions and knowledge."Some people feel pain in their stomach when we say that sage Kanada introduced the theory of the atom bomb. They question me because they are not aware of the ancient Indian knowledge," he said at an event here on Saturday.He said that some people do not have faith in the ancient Indian knowledge because the country committed the mistake of not undertaking research."The only mistake that we committed is that we did not undertake research. Ask American scientist - where did they find formulae (of their inventions)? They will admit that they found it in Indian texts," he said.He said the Ram Setu in Rameshwaram is a fine example of "our capabilities in engineering during ancient times."The minister also said that Sanskrit is the only scientific language.
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| Closing In On a Non-sugar Sweetener — One Without a Weird Aftertaste
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 (Credit: SpeedKingz/Shutterstock) The first time someone synthesized saccharin, the artificial sweetener in Sweet'N Low, it was an accident. A scientist studying coal tar in 1879 didn't wash his hands before eating dinner and was surprised to taste a sweet residue from the lab on his fingertips. Same goes for the invention of the sweetener sodium cyclamate in 1937: the unwitting pioneer, who was working on a fever medication, put his cigarette down on the lab bench, and when he picked it bac
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| How did the Ebola crisis affect people's trust in their governments?
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 Legitimacy and trust fundamentally determine a state's ability to effectively implement policies. Without legitimacy, governments cannot rely on citizens to voluntarily comply with centrally mandated policies, making their implementation costly and the provision of public goods inefficient. This is particularly true in the case of public health interventions, where adherence to recommendations of governments determines the success of policies. Large scale public health responses during epidemics can strongly affect the perception of states within a short period of time. Specifically the Ebola epidemic that raged in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2015 may have actually improved trust in governments in regions where government intervention was effective while undermining trust where this was not the case. Compared to pre-epidemic years, trust in government entities increased relatively more in regions that saw an intense transmission of Ebola. In Guéckédou, ...
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| Human as Spaceship
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 You are a spaceship soaring through the universe. So is your dog. We all carry with us trillions of microorganisms as we go through life. These multitudes of bacteria, fungi, and archaea have different DNA than you. Collectively called your microbiome, your shipmates outnumber your own cells.
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| Health Minister takes stock of situation at AIIMS, meets director
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| New Delhi, [India], Aug 18 (ANI): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan, on Sunday reviewed the situation at AIIMS after a major fire broke out at the facility on Saturday. He held a meeting with AIIMS Director and other senior faculty members.The fire which is suspected to have started from the microbiology laboratory area has damaged some laboratories and office areas. However, the hospital area has not been affected by the fire and there has been no casualty.As a precautionary measure, AIIMS administration had shifted patients from AB wing of the hospital to other areas in the building.These patients have been shifted back to their respective wards in the AB wing. The hospital along with the emergency department and emergency laboratories is fully functional. AIIMS administration has initiated an internal enquiry to look into the cause of the fire and further strengthen preventive measure.AIIMS has a regular fire prevention system. There are fire personnel ...
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| Satellite-aided locator could help mountaineers: Climbers
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| A satellite-aided device that pinpoints the exact location of the user could be of help to mountaineers, who face risk to their lives while summiting the Himalayan peaks, climbers said. Similar devices are already in use in the country's aviation and maritime sectors along with the government-backed search and rescue (SAR) infrastructure. A number of mountaineers, both from within and outside the country, died this season summiting Mt Everest and the other "eight thousanders" in the Himalayas. Some of them might have been saved if rescuers had the Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) that could pinpoint their exact location, the climbers said. A senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which takes care of the satellite-related functions of SAR, has supported the effectiveness of PLB in mountaineering. "ISRO supports your suggestion to make PLBs of Search and Rescue System compulsory to the mountaineering teams/members and this should be brought to the ..
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| Religion and science don't have to be divorced: Vidya Balan
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| Science and religion can co-exist rather than being pitted against each other, says Vidya Balan about her character of a god-fearing ISRO scientist in "Mission Mangal". The actor said a person can have multiple identities but there is a problem in the way being religious is interpreted today. "I think there is a problem with the way religion is being interpreted today. I know a lot of people who are shying away from calling themselves religious and I am one of them. I have always felt like I don't want to say I'm religious. I always call myself spiritual," the actor told PTI in an interview. "Religious has become or obtained a negative connotation because being religious has become synonymous with being intolerant. But they don't have to be divorced," Viday said adding that Tara Shinde, her character in the film, believes in a power beyond science. The actor also spoke about the increase in "you versus me" debate, which she believes, has led to the dilution in the concept of ...
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