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PUSA spray: a breakthrough to reduce air pollution in Delhi NCR

Bengaluru-based firm “nurture.farm” is providing technology to aid farmers to spray decomposers over an unprecedented 5 lakh acres which proves to be a boon to the National Capital Region (NCR). The firm is offering a microbial bioenzyme “Boom spray” developed by Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) to help farmers across India to dispose stubble (crop residue) on their farms responsibly. The company is giving free service to farmers where spraying the bioenzyme, named “Pusa Decomposer”, and gets converted into manure, thereby improving the quality of soil. A technologyled solutions provider for sustainable agriculture, has signed up with more than 25,000 farmers, mostly in Punjab and Haryana, covering an area of over 5,00,000 acres. Thanks to IARI and nurture.farm for this innovative solution to poor air quality index.

Plastic and microplastic in marine environment

Modern lifestyles and Malmost all product categories incorporated plastic. It is one of the most widely used materials on earth. In contrast to metals, plastic is lightweight, strong, malleable material that is cheap. As useful as these characteristics are when plastics are used in everyday life, they can also be very hazardous when they are discarded into the environment. Because plastics are nearly indestructible and contain toxic material, plastic can seriously damage the environment (UNEP, 2005).

Fish exposed to Microplastics pollution since 1950s

Plastics is an avoidable thing for modern Pcivilization, it is impossible to picture a future without it. Plastics are ubiquitous and it is included in food packaging, automobiles, clothes, fishing gear, and medical devices. Plastics are highly used because of its features such as lightness, strength, durability, and low cost, among other alternatives. Plastics benefits are overshadowed by their drawbacks, such as their strong resistance to deterioration and the real fact that they get accumulate in nature due to poor management of waste in many parts of the world. This can be particularly noticeable on beaches and in oceans, where currents and wind carry plastic trash.

Use of Insects as a protein source for broiler production under Indian conditions

Poultry meat contributes more than 50% Pof total meat market in India (DAHD, 2019).

The Importance of Evidence in Medicine

Experience is a person's biggest asset. Often in our Edaily life, our actions are dictated by the way our previous decisions panned out. With experience, we can estimate the consequences of our actions, making it easier to decide the manner in which we carry out a certain task. While two people can have similar experiences, identical experiences are hard to come across. There is always a variation in the way different people carry out their tasks, which is owed to the difference in their experiences. Therefore, while one person may be able to carry out a task perfectly, the other may make errors causing a delay in completion of the task. This is where 'science' or 'evidence' becomes crucial.

Egg: good source of choline supplement

The egg is one Cof the rich sources of choline. The importance of choline is tremendous in the body during the different physiological processes. Choline is necessary for the normal functioning of all cells in our body.

Era of large air purifiers

Pollution is nothing but some un-wanted or un-acceptable level of Pan item. Pollution in all its forms in air, water and land have reached to alarming levels and people are feeling its harmful health effects. Though, sound pollution, corruption, loss of humanity due to changing thoughts/mind sets, growing population, growing unemployment, increasing hunger/malnutrition, widening economical, academic & digital divide/gap of society, and many more are no way less than air, water and land pollution which are affecting the mankind severely. The present way of civilization/modernization based on technology is said to be the root cause of all these various types of pollution. Though, we all at individual level are responsible for each type of pollution but we always prefer to point fingers towards others and rest hope on others to find the solution for all the evils including pollution. Developing technology to tackle or control pollution is way behind than the need to “nip the evil in the bud”. Thus, there is great need to control, minimize or stop all such activities which leads to the generation of pollution but without scarifying our comforts based on technological development, we want to develop pollution control solutions either towards post mitigation of pollution or making pollution controlled technological assisted development.

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.

Self-Doctoring: Bringing To The Never Ending Trail Of Antibiotic Resistance

On a serious note, the few comparative studies done Oexclusively on the self-use of antibiotics among populations have shown concern on the critical rise of antibiotics resistance.

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.

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.

Long Covid Uncommon In Children

Fewer than one in F20 children with symptomatic COVID-19 experienced symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks, and almost all children have fully recovered by 8 weeks, a new study has found.

Eating More Plant Foods May Lower Heart Disease Risk In Young Adults

Eating more Enutritious, plant-based foods is heart-healthy at any age, according to two research studies published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.

The Verge of Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

Fish with human like teeth

Anglers at Jennette's Pier in North Carolina pulled up something unexpected — and uncanny — from the Atlantic: a fish with human teeth.

More than 98 percent of emperor penguin colonies are expected to become quasi-extinct by 2100

Nearly all of the world's emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction by 2100, a study has found, as the United States moves to list them as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Snake-eating spiders

Snakes are occasionally overpowered and eaten by a limited number of spider taxa. Not all snake-eating spiders trap the serpents with webs. Tarantulas actively hunt their prey, then use powerful jaws to deliver a potent venom (SN: 2/28/19).

Heat Wave Killed more than 1 Billion Marine creatures in Western United States and Canada

Heat Wave Killed more than 1 Billion Marine creatures in Western United States and Canada

Consuming a diet with more fish fats, less vegetable oils can reduce migraine headaches

A diet higher in Afatty fish helped frequent migraine sufferers reduce their monthly number of headaches and intensity of pain compared to participants on a diet higher in vegetable-based fats and oils, according to a new study.

Dragon man fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species named Homo longi or Dragon Man. Their findings, appearing in three papers published in the journal The Innovation, suggest that the Homo longi lineage may be our closest relatives and has the potential to reshape our understanding of human evolution.

A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation

A diet rich in Afermented foods enhances the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Zombie Genes: Genes That Come To Life In The Brain After Death

In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some cells even increase their activity and grow to gargantuan proportions, according to new research from the University of Illinois Chicago.

Monoclonal Antibody Cocktail – An Exceptional Game Changer For Covid Treatment In India

Immunity against a pathogen occurs either naturally or as a result of exposure to it. Vaccination is a biological procedure that stimulates the immune system of a person.

Covid-19 Second Wave And India´s Rivers Health

We have learnt a lot about how to break the transmission chain of SARS-CoV-2 by rapid testing, vaccination, sanitization, social distancing, social networking, etc. However, the conversation over SARS-CoV-2 transmission is still remnants.