Category: Science
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They too have the RIGHT to LIVE- Ban on the use of animals for drug development or medical research!!
“He prayeth well who loveth well, Both man and bird and beast” said Collridge, throwing light on the importance of showing benevolence and compassion to animals, as we do for human beings. Animals like us, experience pain and suffering. They too are as much as God’s creation as man himself. They too have all the…
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Tell your ACs to take a chill pill!
Come on, it’s just April, The Earth month. So, the tip of the Earth month is: “This summer tell your air conditioners to take a chill pill and hibernate as long as they can.” The Air conditioners are operating ironical to their name, and heating our planet Earth. Just for the sake of cooling our…
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Green Chemistry: No longer a Mystery
“Green chemistry represents the pillars that hold up our sustainable future. It is imperative to teach the value of green chemistry to tomorrow’s chemists.” very rightly quoted by Daryle Busch, explains the need of the hour, the need of the planet. Green technology is the solution to it, to end it all, to end the…
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Green Nanotechnology: It’s easier than you think
“We are on unsustainable path. It is not as though nanotechnology will be an option; it is going to be essential for coming up with sustainable technologies”. Green nanotechnology refers to the optimum use of nanotechnology to enhance the environmental sustainability of processes producing disastrous health and environment effects. It also refers to the use…
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Rethink your Balanced diet!!
Traditionally what our grandparents reinforced on taking was a healthy-wealthy Balanced diet. This is what, the books, teachers and even the doctors told us. But today, in the era of modern technology and techniques, fast pace and where people are running from pole to pole in search of money, what we miss out is an…
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Health and Spices
There are multiple reasons why India is chastised time and again for its cultural prejudices, racist biases, sexist practices, hegemony, violation of human rights and animal rights but there is one thing you cannot take away from the country is its unity in diversity. One culture is conflated into another unless difference is lost and…
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Ozone Depletion: Alert!
OZONE DEPLETION: ALERT! The ozone layer refers to a region of Earth’s stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun’s UV radiation. It contains high concentrations of ozone (O3) relative to other parts of the atmosphere, although it is still very small relative to other gases in the stratosphere. Ozone layer depletion refers to the decline…
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Nanotechnology: Amazing Solutions it Gave!!!
A little word “ nano” which has come to light into the world’s consciousness over the past few years has craved up the scientific community and even humanity in speculating about a profound shift in almost every aspect of science and engineering with its implication for ethics, economics, international relations, day-to-day life. Some visionaries proclaim…
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Acid Mine Drainage:The River of Destruction
As the industrial revolution surges forwards and the technological innovation continues.There is an increasing demand for raw materials such as iron,copper etc.These are mainly obtained from mining.Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an ore body, lode or seam which forms the mineralized package of economic interest…
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Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright…
Even though I’m not a man of poems, or a literature nut, I have to say, William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ I will always remember. For some inexplicable reason, it has been branded into my brain, ever since I learned it in school. Its verses have not left my mind, even after 7 years, and today…