Friday 12 April 2013

                                     IT IS NOT THAT BAD TO DRINK TEA

Scientific studies have shown that tea is abundant in in bioactive plant chemicals that tremendous potential for our health  protection.Green tea can protect us from various cancers & can protect our arteries,heart as well can protect cerebral strokes to occur.Tea is reach in tannin which being a very strong antioxidant is active against many forms of cancer.Another tannin calleed theaflavin can lower blood pressure as well.

Tuesday 2 April 2013

            RAFFLESIA FINALLY FOUND IT'S FAMILY                         

Scientists have finally identified the family of the largest flower Rafflesia wollfia.This flower was discovered about 180 years ago by east india company officials in sumatran rainforest.The blood red colored rafflesia which smells like a rotten flesh belongs to the same family like castor oil or rubber plant.Rafflesia is a strange plant that doesn't have leaves,roots or stem but leaves as a parasite extracting
 nutrients from other plants in the vicinity.It was discovered by Sir Stamford raffles after whom the flower was named.  

Monday 1 April 2013

       WHALE ANCESTOR TRACED IN VALLEY                


The fossil of a 48 million year old mammal found in kakalkot of jammu & kashmir represent the missing link between whales & their four footed ancestors.The mammal named Indohyus resembles a miniature dear is closest to whales as per iit roorkee researches.The bones of this animal has a thick outer layer almost like a hippopotamus thus strongly establishing the fact further.