Scientists have long discovered that birds navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. But, this complex topic has not yet been clarified until a promising insight has been offered recently into it — The beaks of homing pigeons possess…
Homing pigeons navigate using iron-containing structures on their beaks Read More »
Think of Indus disappearing from the world map. Such a phenomenon will hit thousands of people living directly on the river source and millions indirectly. It’s just the fear of the Indus disappearing. What if some of the world’s major rivers reach this..
World’s major rivers in crisis: Climate change, the major culprit Read More »
Climate change and Global warming are not new to us, but what about people like Sheikh Alauddin living on West Bengal’s Moushuni Island? It is people like him who have to bear the brunt of climate change first. Living on the shores gives them sleepless.
Global warming ready to gobble up Indian islands Read More »
It is pretty sad to see two leading UK climate researchers Professors Paul Hardaker and Chris Collier, both Royal Meteorological Society figures criticizing those among their peers for ‘overplaying’ the global warming message. As an example, they point…
Trivializing global warming crisis is worse than overplaying it! Read More »
Are you an indulgent consumer and make impulse purchases of food that you are unlikely to eat? If so, then you are shamelessly wasting food that a hungry person could have eaten.
According to a recent government watchdog, Britain’s food waste.
Britain: Producing food to waste it Read More »
Prehistoric peoples of the French Pyrenees may be trading scarce manganese oxide mineral. This is evidence from the bull’s muzzle of a cave painting, with 17,000-year old mineral composition. The ancient painting is the — Great Bull of Lascaux. It is a..
17,000-year old cave painting reveals prehistoric trade of scarce mineral Read More »
Modern humans have been separated from the first Homo sapiens and older human species — Homo erectus by a long childhood. But, a study on a 160,000-year-old early Homo sapiens child might eventually change the age-old thought on — when and where modern.
Early humans experienced ‘prolonged childhood’: 160,000-year-old child reveals Read More »
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations are currently now in Germany with two major issues in their agenda –
* how to reduce emission of greenhouse gas,
* how to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
The key developing…
G8 ministers meet in Germany to help curb greenhouse gas emission Read More »
A new range of natural insecticides is being made from a bacterium protein. It acts like a poison and can be transformed into a new poison-range for killing insects. And these bacteria harbour inside the intestine of nematode worms, and thus can infect…
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Scientists have explored a new way of knowing, how genes work in rice. Plant biologist Blake Meyers at the University of Delaware and colleagues have developed a large dataset of gene sequences in rice!
This information will help understand the…
Large gene dataset for rice plant developed Read More »