Science & Tech

Jan
28
2022
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Are we Copping out ?

Are we Copping out ?

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Written by : Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Photo : Shutterstock.com If you don’t completely understand what constitutes climate change, let me help you out- global CO2 levels have risen to 417ppm, a 43.5ppm jump from the year 2000, sea levels have risen 3.4mm per year, arctic sea ice has fallen to 13% since 1979 and we have had 19 warmest years since 2000. If this doesn’t sound ominous to you then you are probably not grasping the full extent of damage that we have caused and continue to cause the planet. To prevent causing irreparable damage, every year world leaders and…
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Jul
07
2021
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Can genetic manipulation of plants combat climate changes?

Can genetic manipulation of plants combat climate changes?

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Written by : Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Photo : Shutterstock.com With the global population set to increase to nearly 10 billion by 2050, climate change has become a major global crisis. If you have been paying attention to the news, the Pacific North West in USA, such as Seattle and Oregon areas, has been experiencing temperatures as high as 104-112 degrees last weekend alone. Such events of extreme weather are becoming more and more common with a likely trend projected to continue as per the Oregon Climate Office. In recent years climate change has played an undeniable role in catastrophes like…
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May
01
2020
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Is the current reduction in greenhouse gas emissions a good thing ?

Is the current reduction in greenhouse gas emissions a good thing ?

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Written By : Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Department of Plant Science and innovation University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Photo credit : Shutterstock.com The world right now is nothing short of a science fiction movie gone wrong. As the world enters in May, we are all living in a nightmare. COVID -19 or the novel coronavirus pandemichas thus far claimed 234,765 lives and infected nearly 3.3 million people officially. Citizens of the world have been strictly instructed to practice social distancing by maintain a distance. Unsurprisingly, most workplacesother than those rendering essential services have shut down with everyone mostly working from home. Cities…
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Apr
07
2020
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A brief summary of the spread of COVID-19

A brief summary of the spread of COVID-19

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Written By : Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Department of Plant Science and innovation University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Photo: Shutterstock.com The novel corona virus or COVID-19 has affected, as per recent statistics, 1,356,354 and caused nearly 75,760 deaths. The scary aspect of this enormous statistic is that, it will change when you get your hands on this article and it did change while I was writing the article.COVID-19which is now a global pandemic is a respiratory illness which is not the flu but is characterized by flu like symptoms such as fever, dry cough, fatigue, diarrhea in some cases and in severe…
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Feb
04
2020
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The CRISPR Story : From boon to bane?

The CRISPR Story : From boon to bane?

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Written By: Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Department of Plant Science and innovation University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Photo: Shutterstock.com CRISPR is something you must have come across in your science news feed in the last couple of years or so. Even if you have not, you may have seen the big news that took social media by storm – the genome-edited babies in China, Lulu and Nana. One might wonder what is this fuss all about and why is this technique in the news all of a sudden? To make sense of it all its important to delve a little into the…
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Nov
05
2018
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The Glowing Lady of Panthéon: A short memoir

The Glowing Lady of Panthéon: A short memoir

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Written By: Sayantan Datta, Bishal Dey Hyderabad, India Commemorating 151 years of Madam Curie (Born- November 7, 1867; Died- July 4, 1934) She now lies, probably in peace and inquisitiveness, in the Panthéon, Paris. Her bones and blood now finally relieved to be away from the dangers of ionizing radiation and the consequences of it - Madame Curie’s body can never be as immortal as herself. With a legacy that spans eternity (in great irony to the half-life of the substances she worked with), she can be arguably understood as not just an important woman figure in life, but for…
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Jun
15
2018
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From Darwin’s world

From Darwin’s world

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Written By : Riaz Quadir Paris, France Book Review Rediscovering Darwin – By David Elliot Loye If you are going to read only one book this year, or in the next two years or the next five, let David Elliot Loye’s “Rediscovering Darwin” be the one. As has happened many times before in human history, original ideas get hijacked, transformed, mangled, suppressed or misrepresented by those who came after. The greater the ideas the greater the chances of any of this or a combination of these happening to them. The irony is that such distortions happen more often by the…
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May
27
2018
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Hawking was a neuroscientist

Hawking was a neuroscientist

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Written by : Arghya Manna Are we conscious of our being? Though neuroscientists, philosophers and neuro-philosophers have debated over the topics for decades, the answer has not come. Who thenunderstood consciousness? Virginia Woolf was someone who did. She was one of the most important English writers of the twentieth century, who had exploited consciousness in her narratives. According to Woolf, consciousness— simultaneously establishes and questions our being—is the accumulation of our scattered thoughts. She noted in her diary that when she looked inside herself, what she found was consciousness never stood still, rather it was a turbulent current. Woolf explained…
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