Udaipur : Acting Ambassador of the United States Embassy in New Delhi, Patricia A. Lacina, and Minister Counselor for Public Affairs Gloria F. Barbena departed Udaipur by air on Monday evening after a three-day visit to Udaipur and Pali districts. The delegation, which was in Udaipur to promote tourism, was taken on a tour of … Read more
Scientists have known for years that warming global climate is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world. A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, shows that the rate of melting might be temporarily increased or decreased by two existing climate patterns: the North Atlantic Oscillation … Read more
To see under starlight and moonlight, the retina of the eye changes both the software and hardware of its light-sensing cells to create a kind of night vision. Retinal circuits that were thought to be unchanging and programmed for specific tasks are adaptable to different light conditions, say the Duke scientists who identified how the … Read more