Turning fish waste into quality carbon-based nanomaterial

Turning fish waste into quality carbon-based nanomaterial

Scientists develop a simple, fast, and energy-efficient synthesis method for producing exceptional carbon nano-onions from fish scales. Thanks to their low toxicity, chemical stability, and remarkable electrical and optical properties, carbon-based nanomaterials are finding more and more applications across electronics, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, and biomedicine. Carbon nano-onions (CNOs) are certainly no exception. First […]

Diets rich in these minerals may help prevent recurrent kidney stones

Diets rich in these minerals may help prevent recurrent kidney stones

Kidney stones can cause not only excruciating pain but also are associated with chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. If you’ve experienced a kidney stone once, you have a 30% chance of having another kidney stone within five years. Changes in diet are often prescribed to prevent recurrent symptomatic kidney stones. However, little research is available regarding dietary changes […]

Discovery of Mbiresaurus gives birth to new theory on dinosaurs in Supercontinent Pangea

Discovery of Mbiresaurus gives birth to new theory on dinosaurs in Supercontinent Pangea

The discovery of Mbiresaurus in Zimbabwe has led the group of researchers to propose a new theory on dinosaur migration, as Africa was once part of the supercontinent called Pangea. The climate across ancient Pangea continent is thought to have been divided into strong humid and arid latitudinal belts, with more temperate belts spanning higher […]

Africa’s oldest known dinosaur skeleton to bridge the ‘Missing Middle’

Africa’s oldest known dinosaur skeleton to bridge the ‘Missing Middle’

An international team of paleontologists led by Virginia Tech has discovered a skeleton of new long-necked dinosaur Mbiresaurus raathi, that fills a critical geographic gap in the fossil record of the oldest dinosaurs. The skeleton, mostly intact, was first found by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences and other paleontologists during […]

Twitter India rival Koo lays off 40 employees

Twitter India rival Koo lays off 40 employees

Twitter rival Koo has laid off at least 40 people in India to prune redundant staff as per its current business requirements, hinting at another failure in overcrowded social media platforms. Currently, WhatsApp and Twitter are the two laeding social platforms in India. The development was reported by news portal Inc42, which said that Koo […]

NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere

NASA’s Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet Atmosphere

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet. The finding, accepted for publication in […]

NASA hopes to Launch Artemis I Moon Mission on Sept 3

NASA hopes to Launch Artemis I Moon Mission on Sept 3

NASA will target Saturday, Sept. 3 at 2:17 p.m. EDT, the beginning of a two-hour window, for the launch of Artemis I, the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the ground systems at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission managers met Tuesday to discuss data and develop […]

Gorbachev dies at 91; India connection, contribution

Gorbachev dies at 91; India connection, contribution

Mikhail Gorbachev, a friend of India who visited twice in the mid-1980s, died on Tuesday aged 91 after a prolonged illness. He was the last Soviet president who ended the Cold War without bloodshed though could not prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Mikhail Gorbachev passed away tonight after a serious and protracted disease,” […]

Football bounces back quickly among athletes after Covid-19 isolation: Study

Football bounces back quickly among athletes after Covid-19 isolation: Study

A new joint study by LSU’s School of Kinesiology, LSU Athletics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Our Lady of the Lake researched how the immune system of elite student-athletes responded to the COVID-19 virus. The football players who were diagnosed with COVID-19 were able to have their immune system back to its baseline after isolation. […]

Netflix: Coming soon films and web series, originals

Netflix: Coming soon films and web series, originals

Starting September, Netflix subscribers can enjoy several films ranging from Noah Baumbach’s black comedy ‘White Noise’, multiple award-winning Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu’s ‘Bardo and Lindsay Lohan’s romantic comedy ‘Falling for Christmas’. As per the calendar put out on Tuesday by Netflix for this Fall, ‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’, with Emma Thompson playing the terrifying Miss […]

Ranbir shares South Indian Thali with Nagarjuna, Rajamouli in Chennai

Ranbir shares South Indian Thali with Nagarjuna, Rajamouli in Chennai

Actor Ranbir Kapoor on Wednesday tried out a tasty south Indian meal along with ace director S.S. Rajamouli and Telugu superstar Nagarjuna, on the sidelines of promotion of Ayan Mukherji’s upcoming film ‘Brahmastra’. Ranbi  tried the south Indian meal typically served on a plantain leaf in the traditional way.  Earlier, at a press conference called […]

Mind your language when diagnosing women with polycystic ovary syndrome

Mind your language when diagnosing women with polycystic ovary syndrome

The language used by doctors when diagnosing female patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can negatively impact their wellbeing and how they view their condition later on in life, new research finds. PCOS is a condition that affects the working of ovaries and can result in a range of physical symptoms (irregular periods or none […]

Women aged above 45 behind surge in post-Covid cosmetic surgeries: Survey

Women aged above 45 behind surge in post-Covid cosmetic surgeries: Survey

After the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans are now investing in themselves through cosmetic procedures, despite an uncertain economy. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) polled member surgeons nationwide and found more than three-quarters of cosmetic-focused plastic surgery practices are seeing more business than before the pandemic, with nearly 30 percent reporting […]

Insufficient sleep in teenagers leads to obesity: Study

Insufficient sleep in teenagers leads to obesity: Study

Adolescents who sleep less than eight hours a night are more likely to be overweight or obese compared to their peers with sufficient sleep, said a new study presented at ESC Congress 2022. Shorter sleepers were also more likely to have a combination of other unhealthy characteristics including excess fat around the middle, elevated blood […]

All tattoos are not same, what’s harmful in ink matters

All tattoos are not same, what’s harmful in ink matters

Although people have decorated their bodies for millennia with tattoo images as a form of self-expression but the inks used remained unregulated, resulting in products whose components are largely a mystery. Now, researchers have analyzed almost 100 inks and report that even when these products include an ingredient label, the lists often aren’t accurate. The […]