Not too wet, not too dry: Plasma-treated fuel cell gets it just right

Fuel cells hold promise as a clean, renewable source of energy. But keeping them dry has long been a challenge, as they produce water during the process of converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity. Now University of British Columbia researchers say they may have found a solution: pre-treating the electrode — a key component of … Read more

Complete makeover in fight of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB … Read more

Birds retreating from climate change, deforestation in Honduras cloud forests

The cloud forests of Honduras can seem like an otherworldly place, where the trees are thick with life that takes in water straight from the air around it, and the soundscape is littered with the calls of animals singing back and forth. Otherworldly, yes, but scientists have found that the cloud forests are not immune … Read more

Banswara triple murder case- Four accused arrested from Chittorgarh

‘Accused went to Sirohi, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer during the run’ Udaipur : In a major breakthrough, Banswara police arrested the four wanted men in connection with the sensational broad daylight triple murders inside hospital premises, last week. Pannalal Sargada son of Heera (44), his son Nayan (19), and nephews Ajay (22) and Naresh (24) both sons of … Read more

World’s largest and smallest currency note in the collection of Mahendra Sharma of Udaipur

Udaipur. The largest and highest currency note of the world is available in the collection of Mahendra Sharma of Udaipur. Mahendra Sharma says, the world’s largest note is a 600 ringit note from Malaysia, which was released on Malaysia’s 60th Independence Day in 2018. Its size is 370 mm times 220 mm. This note has … Read more

Building a better brain-in-a-dish, faster and cheaper

Writing in the current online issue of the journal Stem Cells and Development, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe development of a rapid, cost-effective method to create human cortical organoids directly from primary cells. Experimental studies of developing human brain function are limited. Research involving live embryonic subjects is constrained … Read more

Big game animals must learn to migrate and pass knowledge across generations

A team of scientists at the University of Wyoming has provided the first empirical evidence that ungulates (hooved mammals) must learn where and when to migrate, and that they maintain their seasonal migrations by passing cultural knowledge across generations. The results were reported today in Science. Biologists have long suspected that, unlike many bird, fish … Read more

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