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“Oceans and climate are linked to each other. Far from the static, Atlantic Ocean contributes a lot to climate change,” shared Prof A D Singh, department of geology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He has returned recently from an ocean expedition to Atlantic Ocean. Singh, who was invited by the Unites States Implementing Organisation (USIO) through [...]
Birds don’t have to bother about overcrowded roads, but they do stick to a speed limit to avoid hitting trees or other objects. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe their findings could help the military fly unmanned drones as fast as possible without crashing. They looked at birds such as the daredevil [...]
US researchers say they have created the world’s first genetically modified monkeys by merging cells from up to six different embryos, in what could be a big advance for medical research. Until now, rodents have been the primary creatures used to make chimeras, a lab animal produced by combining two or more fertilised eggs or [...]
A new NASA study predicts massive ecological changes for Canada’s Prairies and boreal regions by the year 2100. Those areas are in “hot spots” highly vulnerable to massive environmental changes this century due to global warming, the study states. Much of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba is predicted to see major shifts northward of plant and [...]
From grandma’s home remedies for cough, cold and other ailments, ‘tulsi’ (Indian Basil) is now being tested by Indian scientists for treating people exposed to harmful radiations and initial tests have shown some positive results. Scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have developed a tulsi-based herbal medicine for treating people exposed to [...]
A LONG-HELD secret of plants – what they get up to at night – has been revealed. Scientists had assumed they did very little because, in the darkness, they could not use the sun’s energy to carry out photosynthesis. But recently it has been found that plants transport and lose a surprising amount of water [...]
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