30 years ago, a German botanist had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. Siegfried Fink managed to create transparent wood by bleaching the pigments of plant cells and published his technique in a magazine specialized in wood technology. The 1992 paper was the last word on transparent … Read more
The ‘Gravity Probe-B’ probe has measured with maximum precision the effect of planet Earth on the curvature of space-time.NASA The culprit is gravity. Gravity is defined as the attraction generated by any body or object with mass on another object. The more massive a body is, the more gravitational pull it will exert. Although it … Read more
2023-12-15 16:55:37 There are many people who don’t like aging and getting wrinkles on their skin. A group of Chinese scientists have come up with good news for such people. For this, they are proposing hydrogen therapy. Hydrogen has been found to have anti-inflammatory properties and it helps in cell repair. Scientists say hydrogen also … Read more
2023-12-13 16:24:00 Scientists from University of Connecticut (USA)) found that reducing the calorie intake of the diet prolongs the life of both old and young fruit flies, reports Sports.kz with reference to Gazeta.ru. The results of the study were published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). Fruit flies (Drosophila) were fed a … Read more
2023-10-18 13:11:43 India’s horticulture production is estimated to have risen annually by 1.37 per cent to 351.92 million tonne in 2022-23 due to better productivity, according to government data. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on Wednesday released the second advance estimates of the area and production of various horticultural crops for the year 2022-23. … Read more
2023-10-15 11:50:34 British researchers representing Queen Mary University in London have discovered a more protracted and previously unknown form of ARVI. The results of the study were published in the Lancet journal. In total, scientists surveyed over 10,000 people, asking them to name at least 16 main symptoms they experience during a protracted form of … Read more
2023-09-23 12:33:19 Al-Marsad newspaper: Researchers revealed that what is believed to be the first case of its kind was recorded, in a 61-year-old man, who was seriously ill as a result of “silver leaf” disease, which raised the bewilderment of scientists. Traces of the disease appeared in his throat, providing a rare example of apparent … Read more
2023-09-07 20:00:25 Tel Aviv: Researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel have created a 14-day-old human embryo model (synthetic embryo) without the help of a sperm, egg or uterus. The embryo model is created from stem cells in the laboratory. It has all the characteristics of a 14-day-old human embryo, including the placenta, yolk sac, … Read more