Study reveals flying secrets of soaring birds
The Andean condor - the world's heaviest soaring bird which can weigh in at up to 15 kg - actually flaps its wings for one per cent of its flight time.
Tobacco use kills over 1.3 mn every year in Southeast Asia: WHO
Tobacco use kills nearly six million people annually with over 600,000 deaths due to exposure to second hand smoke
Mosquito sex-determining gene could help fight dengue fever
Virginia Tech scientists identify a genetic switch called Nix in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that underlies the difference between males and females.
The politics of environment, farmer’s agitation and the youth
In the last few days Disha Ravi, Nikita, Shantanu, and Extinction Rebellion (XR) activist Greta Thunberg have been in the news because of their links with the farmer’s movement in India and sedition charges slapped on them.
FSSAI guidelines for safe handling, and consumption of poultry, meat and eggs during Bird Flu
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a guidance document on “Safe handling, processing and consumption of poultry meat and eggs during bird flu
Looking for pieces of Venus? Try the moon
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun. Venus has a thick, toxic atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide and is perpetually shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of mostly sulfuric acid that trap heat, causing a runaway greenhouse effect.
Animated film captures Kolkata swamped in climate horror
Co-directors of Wade, an award-winning short film, say what it’s like to imagine a dystopia in your home city and what they hope the film will achieve
Why Humans need to treat Mother Nature better
Man is the part of nature, and his war against nature is inescapably a war against himself.
Bengal, northeast may conduct joint elephant census
There are around 9,000 elephants and 22 corridors in the north-east Indian states
Butterfly-inspired technique could make solar energy cheaper
Mimicking the v-shaped posture adopted by a butterfly species to heat up its flight muscles before take-off, the amount of power produced by solar panels can increase by almost 50 percent, a study led by an Indian-origin scientist has found.
Six ‘solar cities’ to be developed in northeast
The six cities - Guwahati and Jorhat in Assam, Kohima and Dimapur in Nagaland, Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh and Agartala in Tripura - will be developed under the Development of Solar Cities
Super-sized black hole spotted
Challenging previous notions about the way host galaxies grow in relation to black holes, an international team of astronomers has spotted a super-sized black hole that grew much faster than its host galaxy.
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