Use your phone camera for real-time pollution check
When the air quality in Delhi and other cities in the north is deteriorating with pollution level touching ‘hazardous’ mark, a new mobile app...
Scientists discovered a “switch” to increase starch accumulation in algae
In a new study, Tokyo Tech scientists have discovered a switch that can control the level of starch content in algae. The researchers demonstrated that starch...
Earth’s oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat per year than previously thought
Climate sensitivity is utilized to assess passable emissions for mitigation methodologies. Most atmosphere researchers have concurred in the previous decade that if worldwide normal...
Plant breeder taps the latest technology to feed the world
Plant breeding has been continuing for a long time. However innovation – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, computerized reasoning (AI) and machine learning –...
CSIR labs develop ‘green’ crackers
Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan today announced the development of a set of new firecrackers that promise to be less polluting...
The location of the large mystery source of restricted ozone depleting substance revealed
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was historically used as a solvent, cleaning agent, and as a feedstock in the production of other compounds such as the...
World-first bio-bricks from urine
Suzanne Lambert, a master's student from the University of Cape Town (UCT) has developed the world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine. He has created...
Mystery of mercury levels in Arctic animals gets solved
A mystery that troubled scientists for more than a decade have now solved. The peak concentration of Methylmercury in the enriched layer in the...
Sea snail shells dissolve in increasingly acidified oceans, study shows
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the University of Plymouth, UK, assessed the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on the large...
Hurricane Michael’s path of power outages seen by satellite
Hurricane Michael was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United States since Andrew in 1992 and the strongest on record in the Florida...
NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone Luban Nearing Oman
On Oct 11, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite, while passing over the Northern Indian Ocean captured that Tropical Cyclone Luban continued to track toward Oman.
The...
All eyes on Hurricane Michael
Tropical storm Michael furrowed into the Florida panhandle Wednesday, Oct. 10, as a noteworthy Category 4 storm - the strongest hurricane to hit that...