http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/5 This section contains articles about science, nature, medicine, anthropology, health and the human spirit. Fri, 30 Jul 10 15:39:05 +0300 en http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6048 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:52:42 +0300 Aakanksha Tyagi Indian economy and industrialization is growing rapidly. Growth numbers are increasing steadily like a wall rising with every added brick. Fast paced economic growth is leading to increase in urbanization. Towns are experiencing facelift with the booming http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/6033 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:51 +0300 The Ovi Team 21st July 1904; Decreed by a Czar, built by thousands of workers over a period of more than a decade, the Trans-Siberian Railway is officially completed. As you\'d expect with a project of this size, complexity and scope, \"officially completed\" is a rel http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5971 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:06:54 +0300 The Ovi Team Helsinki, Finland, July 1, 2010: Finland\'s parliament has lost any connection with the reality, at a time when the current reactor being built at Olkiluoto by French nuclear giant Areva is running at twice the original cost, and rising, and construction http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5953 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:03:48 +0300 The Ovi Team 27th June 1976; the world\'s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins making its way through the area. By the time the epidemic is over, 284 cases are reported, with about half of the victims dying from the disease. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5929 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:21:11 +0300 The Ovi Team 23rd June 1961; The Antarctic Treaty System comes into force to regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, \"all land and ice shelves south of 60°S latitude parallel\". Antarctica is the Earth\'s only continent without a native human http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5912 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:01:22 +0300 Thanos Kalamidas How much you charge an environmental destruction that will take years, probably decades to recover? The amount of life that is going to suffer for the next decades due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is unaccountable doesn\'t matter what the US and http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5896 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:23:53 +0300 The Ovi Team 14th June 1961; following increasing numbers of accidents at uncontrolled zebra crossings a new type of road crossing with push button controls which will allow pedestrians to stop traffic with flashing lights is to be introduced next year. http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5878 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:15:26 +0300 Leah Sellers Oil! Glug, glug! Chug, chug! But those noises aren\'t coming from oil hungry machines. No, they\'re coming from dying Pelicans, dying Sea Birds, dying Manatee, dying Otters, dying Oysters, dying Shrimp, dying Fish ...etc. All drowning in Oil ! http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5851 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:36:34 +0300 Dr. Habib Siddiqui It has been more than a month since the April 20 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people. At the time of this write-up, British Petroleum made little headway with its much touted \"top kill\" method to \"kill http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/5808 Mon, 17 May 2010 09:09:19 +0300 Pallavi Saxena There have been remarkable chapters in the history of science