Borrowed time

The world is set to produce over twice the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C

Agenda For COP26

THE 26TH session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held at a time when the impacts of global warming are more palpable than ever—both for the poor and the rich.

Amazon forest Fires may have affected up to 85 percent of threatened species

In the last two decades, deforestation and forest fires have encroached on the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the Amazon rainforest, including up to 85 percent of threatened species in the region, researchers report in Nature. Since 2001, an area up to the size of Washington State has burned.

Effects of climate change on fish stocks

Climate change is the statistical change in the course of Crime over a period of decades from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average season or a change in the events around an average season.

Milk is more than a food for the neonate in animal production system Swine

Lactocrine term is used to describe the milk Lborne bioactive factors (MbFs) that transfer from mother to offspring/s via lactation. The MbFs play a significant role in providing immunity, survival, growth, and development of new-born.

Lizards without legs but don't call them snakes

Legless lizards are normal lizards that lost their legs. Legless lizards didn't just Lkick off their legs and slither away one day. Over millions of years, the animals developed smaller and smaller limbs until, eventually, their legs and arms disappeared. This kind of change, which is called evolution, often happens over long periods of time.

Nano Plastics from Disposable Face Masks – Need for Awareness

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the entire World to impose a lockdown. Due to the lockdown measures and shutdown of industries, the planet had a good opportunity to reduce its pollution in terms of air quality.

Why Pluto is no longer a planet?

Each year on August 24, the international scientific community recognizes Pluto's historic downgrade with a holiday called Pluto Demoted Day. In 2006, astronomers gathered in Prague to consider a very basic question: How many planets are in our solar system?

Toward next-generation brain-computer interface systems

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are emerging assistive devices that may one day help people with brain or spinal injuries to move or communicate. BCI systems depend on implantable sensors that record electrical signals in the brain and use those signals to drive external devices like computers or robotic prosthetics.

Will It Be Safe For Humans To Fly To Mars?

Sending human travelers to Mars would require scientists and engineers to overcome a range of technological and safety obstacles. One of them is the grave risk posed by particle radiation from the sun, distant stars, and galaxies.

Why Do Tortoises Live So Long?

The term longevity is sometimes meant to refer only to especially longlived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is always defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age.

‘America's original social distancer'

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND LOCKDOWNS MADE DAVID GESSNER, PROFESSOR OF CREATIVE WRITING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, REVISIT HENRY DAVID THOREAU—THE 19 TH CENTURY AMERICAN NATURALIST, ESSAYIST, POET AND PHILOSOPHER WHO LIVED IN ISOLATION FOR TWO YEARS STARTING 1845. THOREAU SPENT HIS TIME GROWING HIS OWN FOOD, CONTEMPLATING AND WRITING. HIS STAY IN THE WOODS BY THE WALDEN POND IN CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS, RESULTED IN HIS MOST-KNOWN WORK, WALDEN—A BOOK THAT DESCRIBES THE ACT OF LIVING DAY TO DAY AND IS CONSIDERED A CLASSIC ON NATURE WRITING AND INDIVIDUALISM. GESSNER COMPARES THOREAU’S SELF-IMPOSED ISOLATION TO HIS OWN FORCED SECLUSION DURING THE PANDEMIC IN HIS BOOK QUIET DESPERATION, SAVAGE DELIGHT TO CONCLUDE “JUST HOW INTENSELY RELEVANT THOREAU IS TO OUR TIMES”. EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK:

Toxic ignorance

In absence of robust framework and infrastructure, segregation of domestic hazardous waste remains a distant dream for most Indian cities

Supply snags

States must contend with several production hurdles before they can roll out fortified rice as part of the Union government's plan to fight malnutrition

‘Reality is not as fixed as people like to think'

Humans pride themselves on the fact that they cannot just see and perceive what is around them but also analyse their observations and form definite conclusions. However, this ability to understand reality is not foolproof, say researchers from the University College of London, UK, in a recent preprint paper published in the online repository PsyArXiv. Through a series of experiments, the researchers have determined that people are often akin to mistaking their imagination for real-life perception. DAKSHIANI PALICHA speaks to lead author of the study NADINE DIJKSTRA about the potential implications of their findings. Excerpts:

The fading mirage of a TRIPS waiver

A year later, the proposal to lift WTO’s intellectual property blocks to making COVID vaccines has not inched forward

Many hues of haldi

Turmeric plays a prominent role not just in our kitchens, but in many auspicious rites and rituals as well

HERO HERB

The pandemic years have witnessed a boom in the production and export of the humble underground stem called turmeric, along with a renewal of interest among the scientific community in the spice’s therapeutic qualities, especially against COVID-19. VIBHA VARSHNEY reports why inclusion of the household herb in our daily diet is a healthy idea

CHASING CORAL

With the world having lost 14 per cent of its coral reefs in just one decade, a marine devastation seems imminent. But there may be some hope yet

Come September

The abnormally high rainfall in the final month of the rainy season has added to India's monsoon agony

BEYOND 100 DAYS

The national rural employment guarantee programme financially empowers village panchayats, thus making them an effective self-governing system

Dry as dust

has increased by 22 times the size of Delhi in the past 15 years. Rainfed farmlands and forests form a major chunk of this wasteland

Enigmatically dry

Drought haunts India as a normal monsoon season nears end

Stream of conflict

Krishna river dispute shows why there is an urgent need to rethink the way inter-state rivers are managed and governed

A STITCH IN TIME

The recovery of the ozone layer has helped the world fight climate change

In the blue

After spending decades controlling atmospheric emission of mercury, the world wakes up to the possibility that rivers are a major source of the toxic metal in the oceans

Devil's in the Detail

Seven years, four committees and two draft regulations later, India still does not have a clear labelling system to warn consumers about harmful levels of fat, salt and sugar hiding in processed foods. These ingredients are responsible for the growing burden of obesity and noncommunicable diseases. But a powerful industry and a hesitant food regulator are busy derailing all efforts.

Virtual healers

A mobile application provides people in rural areas of Bihar easy access to healthcare facilities

मादा नेवलों में विचित्र प्रसव-तालमेल

हाल ही में नेवलों की आबादी पर किए गए अध्ययन से प्रजनन सम्बंधी कुछ अद्भुत परिणाम सामने आए हैं।

टेक्नॉलॉजी का सहस्राब्दी पुरस्कार

वर्ष 2020 के सहस्राब्दी टेक्नॉलॉजी पुरस्कार की घोषणा मई में की गई। यह पुरस्कार डीएनए अनुक्रमण (सिक्वेसिंग) की क्रांतिकारी तकनीक के विकास हेतु शंकर बालसुब्रमण्यन और डेविड क्लेनरमैन को दिया गया है। उनका काम विज्ञान और नवाचार का उत्कृष्ट संगम है। यह बहुत प्रासंगिक भी है क्योंकि वर्तमान महामारी के संदर्भ में हम सबने जीनोम अनुक्रमण के बारे में खूब सुना है।