Scientific India
Non-antibiotic growth promoter for monogastric farm animals
Feed additives assist in boosting the monogastric Fanimal immune system through maintaining homeostasis of the gastrointestinal tract. The gastrointestinal tract is a vital immune organ that encompasses roughly 70% of the total immune cells of the body. Apart from the above, feed additives regulate gut flora, reduce weaning stress and other environmental challenges on piglets and pigs respectively.
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January - February 2022
Scientific India
Warm milk at bed time help you fall asleep
When heading to bed, people often do a variety of rituals to help Wthem prepare for a restful night's sleep, such as taking a warm bath or doing nighttime yoga.
1 min |
January - February 2022
Scientific India
Nuclear Power Plant at Moon
Electricity has revolutionized the world like nothing ever has, and it's impossible for humanity to imagine a life on Earth without it. Now, if we could generate electricity in space that can revolutionize the space travel as well as living on other destinations than earth.
3 min |
January - February 2022
Scientific India
Microgreens: A nutrient-dense food for improved health and well-being
In recent years, the attention towards microgreens is increasing due to the rise in public awareness of healthy eating worldwide. “Microgreens" are a young, immature, and tender edible seedling of edible plants harvested at 2-5 inches tall, 6 to 15 days post sowing when the cotyledonary leaves start to emerge or just before the fully developed first true leaves.
3 min |
January - February 2022
Scientific India
Global Warming: Biggest Menace to Our Existence!
If someone is truly worried about the fate of the world, it would be a climate scientist. After testing all his climate theories, when he would look at the world, he would see only devastation in the future.
3 min |
January - February 2022
Scientific India
Atom's energy can keep the world powered and the Nature calm
Humanity would never wish to face calamities, at the same time it won't choose to live in darkness either. But, I am afraid we are well on our way to one of these.
9 min |
January - February 2022
Scientific India
4-Fluorouridine is an oral antiviral that blocks SARS-CoV-2 replication
According to a research paper published in science journal, 4′fluorouridine (4′-FlU, EIDD-2749), a ribonucleoside analog that inhibits RSV, related RNA viruses, and SARSCoV-2 with high selectivity index in cells and human airway epithelia organoids.
1 min |
January - February 2022
Scientific India
Top 10 Science Stories Of 2021
Thrilling Science and technology discoveries, hurdles in the fight against Covid and Tadvancements in space exploration defined the past year
4 min |
January - February 2022
Down To Earth
VOICE OF SILENT VALLEY
M K Prasad spread environmental consciousness until his last breath
2 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
SITTING DUCK
Food inflation is at an unprecedented high across the world. Crop loss due to extreme weather events is behind the spiralling prices. The cycle can be interrupted only if farmers have access to robust weather forecast mechanisms and crop insurance schemes
10+ min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
An unusual contest
Rajasthan's state bird, the great Indian bustard, might lose its last natural habitat to wind and solar power plants
8 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
Patchy growth
Forests and trees now cover one-quarter of India's geography. But this is not necessarily good news
5 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
HOPE DEFERRED
With the pandemic near endemicity, an effective and widely available treatment for COVID-19 would be a significant breakthrough for managing the viral infection. Are we there yet? TARAN DEOL, NEW DELHI
7 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
Good riddance
A firm develops safer devices that use light and sound to reduce human-wildlife conflicts DAKSHIANI PALICHA
2 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
AN ETCH IN TIME
Santhali communities of Odisha and Jharkhand re changing their ways of painting Sohrai murals
3 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
2021 Was Earth's Sixth-Hottest Year
THE YEAR 2021 was the fifth warmest for India since 1901. The "Climate of India during 2021" report published by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on January 15 says annual mean temperature of the country was 0.44oC above the long period average (LPA).
1 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
Viva Cuba For Its Vaccine Revolution
Punching way above its weight, the tiny nation has developed five vaccines, and offers hope of vaccine equity across the world
4 min |
February 01, 2022
Down To Earth
A GENERATION INTERRUPTED
Children born today might be the next development challenge for the world
4 min |
January 01, 2022
Down To Earth
RESIDUAL PANDEMIC
There is a huge number of people who have defeated COVID-19, but continue to suffer its debilitating long-term effects RAVLEEN KAUR IN SURAT, GUJARAT
10+ min |
January 01, 2022
Down To Earth
UNPREPARED STILL
World enters an endless loop of disease outbreaks and remains dangerously unprepared for such crises even in third year of the COVID-19 pandemic
4 min |
January 01, 2022
Down To Earth
RISING MERCURY IS MAKING NEPAL GLACIERS VULNERABLE
Changing nature of glaciers and glacial lakes make the Himalayas one of the most climate vulnerable regions on the planet. RIJAN BHAKTA KAYASTHA, a glaciologist at the Himalayan Cryosphere, Climate and Disaster Research Center, Kathmandu University in Nepal, speaks to AKSHIT SANGOMLA about glaciers in Nepal and the impact of climate change on them
5 min |
January 16, 2022
Down To Earth
We Are Not At Peace With Nature
What can I wish for in the middle of a pandemic? It is not going to be a “new” year if we continue with our foolish ways of managing the planet
3 min |
January 01, 2022
Down To Earth
Omicron Unlikely To Increase Threat In Children
Hasty vaccination of healthy young people will have little benefit
2 min |
January 01, 2022
Down To Earth
SUN, SALT AND SAND
Use of solar-powered pumps for salt manufacturing has not just helped Gujarat's Agariya community fight the rising fuel costs, but also drastically cut their carbon emissions
6 min |
January 16, 2022
Down To Earth
Protracted struggle
Despite legal win, three tribal villages in Andhra Pradesh are still fighting the state to save their land from mining
4 min |
January 16, 2022
Down To Earth
Calling out Albert Bourla and Big Pharma
Omicron is the result of leading vaccine makers and rich nations' failure to provide equitable supplies of jabs against COVID-19
5 min |
January 16, 2022
Down To Earth
On thin ice
Reduced snowfall and high temperatures have upturned the lives of people in the Himalayan cold desert
7 min |
January 16, 2022
Down To Earth
For A Sustainable Farm Sector
A look at strategies and pathways to make Indian agriculture resilient in a changing climate and help the country fulfil commitments it made at COP26
8 min |
January 16, 2022
Down To Earth
Some more unequal
The world today is richer than ever, but the wealth gap between the rich and the poor has also widened to levels last seen at the height of imperialism 200 years ago
7 min |
December 16, 2021
Down To Earth
RAINING FOR 60 DAYS
Incessant heavy rains over south India for the past two months indicate a drastic change in the country’s monsoon system and hint at the new climate extremes of a perpetually warming world
10+ min |