Washington, Sept 28 : Researchers from Lancashire, England, and Chicago, IL, have discovered that animals farmed for meat are the main source of bacteria responsible for food poisoning.
They suggested that 97 pct of the foodbourne illnesses are caused by bacteria typically found in chicken and livestock.
While studying campylobacteriosis cases, the research team found that 97 pct of the cases in Lancashire, UK, were caused by bacteria typically found in chicken and livestock.
The study was based on DNA-sequence comparison of thousands of bacteria collected from human patients and animal carriers.
New York, Sept 28 : Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda met Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon at the UN Headquarters here on Saturday.
According to the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the United Nations, the UN Secretary General assured of the United Nations'' continued support in the days ahead and expressed his readiness to assist in the socio-economic development in Nepal.
He also appreciated Nepal''s continued participation in the UN peacekeeping operations while Prachanda reiterated Nepal''s commitment to continue providing troops to UN peacekeeping missions at the call of the UN.
Washington, September 28 : Thanks to an automated system developed by a team of Princeton University computer scientists, archaeologists in Greece will now be able to virtually reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was buried under volcanic ash more than 3,500 years ago.
According to David Dobkin, the Phillip Y. Goldman ''86 Professor in Computer Science and dean of the faculty at Princeton, the new technology has the potential to change the way people do archaeology.
Washington, September 28 : Mechanical engineers at the University of Strathclyde''s Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) in Scotland is developing a dual-rotor turbine connected to the seabed by a cable that rides the tide like a kite on a windy day.
According to a report in Scientific American, the ESRU team''s goal is to create a device that literally goes with the flow rather than resting on the sea bottom like an underwater windmill - a model already being developed by a handful of companies.
The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing reater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.
Washington/Tel Aviv - The United States has transferred to Israel a high-powered radar system that will improve Israel's reaction time to a possible Iranian missile strike, the Defense News magazine reported over the weekend.
Quoting US and German sources, the magazine said that more than one dozen aircraft transferred the X-band radar system and some 120 supporting personnel and equipment to Israel on September 21.
The high-powered, high-frequency system is designed to detect and track ballistic missiles soon after launch and can track an object the size of a baseball from 4,700 kilometres away.
Washington, September 28 : Researchers from Maastricht University in Amsterdam have found a possible solution in dealing with the increasing tourism in Antarctica that can form a threat for the vulnerable South Pole area, in the form of marketing the visitor rights to the highest bidder.
Tourism in Antarctica has grown dramatically. In 1985, just a few thousand people visited the area but in the season 2007/2008 more than 40,000 did the same.
A number of parties are concerned about the effects of this rapid growth with respect to safety, the environment, the scale of tourism and the lack of financial resources for monitoring and enforcement purposes.
