Category: Science
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Global Dimming- A Dead End?
Sun has been the primitive energy source for all the natural processes occurring on earth ever since the first unicellular organisms came into being, the dinosaurs started roaming around or the very planet came into existence. Hydrogen nuclei fusing into helium ones at temperature as high as thousands of degree Celsius makes life possible 149,600,000…
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Dealing Air Pollution – First Electrical Aircraft
While we continue to talk about how our small efforts can being about a change in the environmental pollution, there are many other factors which contribute hugely to the air pollution. One of the causes of air pollution is the air mode of transport. Do you think it is not so? The plane which goes…
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Indian heritage vs. Pollution FD
The Indian heritage, the nation’s pride, the monuments are the cultural threads on the beautiful fabric representing India. Taj Mahal, one of WONDERS of the modern world, the seventh wonder known to be the fame of our country takes its physical base in northern India. The pride of our nation is being pale, gloomy and…
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No Spectacles, No Contact Lenses, No Lasik!
The world is a beautiful place to live in. Colourful, beauty at every step, wonders happening at each stage and we the people are the performers on the stage. The performers need to make sure about a perfect stage. A perfect stage would come into being, only when the artists or spectators have a clear…
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Laptops-Are they really LAP-tops?
Ironically, the laptops available to us are not supposed to be used kept on the lap. Yes! The device using which you’re reading the blog, is it safe? Are only the mobile phones radiating EMFs harmful? The answers to all these questions will be dealt in this crisp and short piece of writing discussing the…
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Deforestation and The Uttarakhand Disaster
June 16th 2013, a date that means more or less nothing to you (unless it’s your birthday of course, in which case many happy returns to you!). It does for many others though. That date will be blacked out off the calendar of many households. A date remembered only to regret its existence. A day…
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Wheels Going Green !!
Are you die-hard fan of Formula 1? Are you stunned by racing cars! Running hard on race course. Do you know how much these racing cars utilize fuels and emits. We all know that petrol, diesels and various fuels are becoming a luxury for a middle class being. We all know how necessary these fuels…
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Whaling in Antarctic
Weighing up to 80 tons and almost twice the length of a school bus, the massive fin whale known as the greyhound of the sea for its swimming speed was the victim of decades of commercial slaughter that killed them by the tens of thousands each year. International cooperation on whaling regulation began in 1931…
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Nanofood – sounds interesting and tastes amazing !!!
Food is “nanofood” when prepared using nanoparticles and nanotechnology techniques or tools during cultivation, production, processing, or packaging of the food. It does not mean that food is modified atomically or either it is produced by nanomachines. It has been reviewed that manipulating food at this scale could help to develop foods which are lower…
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Save our gentle giants – The Whales
Whales! It is shocking how the largest creature that ever lived on this planet is at the threat of vanishing forever. Our selfishness has grown so immensely that sometimes we almost close our hearts and eyes to benefit us. We forget that just as we are meant to be on this magnificent planet we…