Science

<p> <strong>The Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources has discovered two new marine fishes.</strong></p> <p> The first is an eel discovered when a specimen was …

<p> <strong>Climate change and global warming has had serious repercussions world over. Among them are the mountainous regions where receding glaciers have led to scarcity of water for drinking and …

<p> <strong>Human beings have come to accept dogs among all other animals as part of their daily life either as strays or as pets. Still, the question which keeps coming …

<p> Scientists at IIT Kharagpur have succeeded in developing Sodium-ion batteries which are cheaper than lithium-based batteries, high performing, and can be scaled up to industrial-level production, according to information …

<p> <strong>The Giant Pandas who have become popular world over being the logo of the World Wildlife Fund has something unusual. It has a thumb which is actually not a …

<p> <strong>It reads like the plot of a Western spaghetti film or Indian pot boiler movie where two characters terrorise a community. Much like them in the waters of Gansbaai …

<p> <strong>Swimming in the waters, the marine fishes, sea dragons look stunning while their colours dazzle, drawing the entire limelight on themselves! Yet, according to a report in sciencealert.com, there …

<p> <strong>Plants are generally thought to be benign, providing food and shade for other beings but there is another side of theirs – the carnivorous species. These, as the name …

<p> <strong>Octopuses have been known to be intelligent as compared to several other creatures in their category – invertebrates. And now a new study brings to light one of the …

<p> <strong>Between 15 and 18 million years ago in parts of Africa there were two species of giant dwarf crocodile which may have been terror for the human beings at …

<p> <strong>There is a glimmer of hope for wildlife lovers and conservationists as a population of polar bears in Greenland has been found in a place where they were not …

<p> <strong>It has been a mystery for the scientific community and lovers of marine life as to how in deep waters, creatures hunt their food as the vision is absolutely …

<p> <strong>The scientific community and historians were delighted when the mystery pertaining to an ancient eggshell and dogging them for the past 41 years was solved. This shell was special …

<p> <strong>The world at large is seized of plastic waste especially those that can’t be recycled. Polystyrene, a form of plastic which is utilised as packing material, disposable cutlery, and …

<p> Social isolation is directly linked with changes in the brain structures associated with memory, making it a clear risk factor for dementia, according to a new study carried out …

<p> <strong>The world’s oldest tree located in the Chilean Andes may be mute but is witness to history of thousands of years. The ancient alerce is called “Gran Abuelo” or …

<p> <strong>In what could shape the future quantum computation, Indian physicists have detected counter propagating channels in two layered Graphene along which certain neutral quasiparticles move in opposite directions breaking …

<p> <strong>It is not just the do-it-yourself enthusiasts and students who are tapping the vast resources of YouTube as even serious scientists are doing the same!</strong></p> <p> Scientists had heard …

<p> <strong>Usually, rats are detested, treated with disdain and killed yet they have their uses. That is what a group of scientists are proving as they train these rodents to …

<p> <strong>Our perception of a volcano is reddish fire and destruction, which is conditioned by the images of molten lava wreaking havoc on human settlements and animal habitats. Yet, there …

<p> <strong>Availability of abundant prey is vital for the conservation of a huge number of large predators and that is precisely happening in the Northern Territory of Australia. A report …