Bhupendra Singh ChundawatThe relatively swift adaptability of tiny, acorn-dwelling ants to warmer environments could help scientists predict how other species might evolve in the crucible of global climate change. That’s a big-picture conclusion from research into the some of the world’s smallest creatures, according to evolutionary biologists at Case Western Reserve University. More specifically, the scientists are … Read more
Eating carbohydrates in moderation seems to be optimal for health and longevity, suggests new research published in The Lancet Public Health journal. The observational study of more than 15,400 people from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC) in the USA found that diets both low (< 40% energy) and high (>70% energy) in carbohydrates … Read more
Udaipur : A 10-year-old girl was raped in Geengla village under Salumber police station on Wednesday afternoon. The girl had taken the cattles for grazing in the fields where a youth who claimed to an acquaintance of her father, befriended her and took her into the interior jungle and raped her.The girl was admitted in MB … Read more
Udaipur : August 16th, 2018: Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology is observing Parthenium Awareness Week from 16th to 22nd August, 2018 in its campus. In connection with the 13th Parthenium Awareness Week of ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, the campaign was taken up by the Directorate of Research of the university and Department … Read more
Astronomers from the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have found evidence that the faintest satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy are amongst the very first galaxies that formed in our Universe. Scientists working on this research have described the finding as “hugely exciting” explaining that … Read more
A team of engineers at the University of Delaware is developing next-generation smart textiles by creating flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings on a wide range of fibers, including cotton, nylon and wool. Their discovery is reported in the journal ACS Sensors where they demonstrate the ability to measure an exceptionally wide range of pressure — … Read more
Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen gymnosperms, known as cycads, may have been the first insect-pollinated plants. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 16 have uncovered … Read more
