Category: Science
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Green Gadgets for your Daily use
As far as the definition of green gadgets is concerned, there isn’t a clear one. Different labels have chose to term their gadgets ‘green’ on the basis of various criteria for which there is no acceptable standard. Some gadgets which use lesser energy to operate than most other gadgets in the market have sometimes been…
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The Everyday Use of Solar Power
Technology is a tool that is supposed to help us. It is used to facilitate human development and progress. But many times these gadgets that make life easier, are the very same we cannot lead our lives without. The everyday use of mobile phones and laptops are seen as a necessity – when in reality…
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What Exactly is Coral Bleaching?
Coral bleaching is a process in which reef corals, soft corals, giant clams, some sponges, etc. lose their colour and become white due to expulsion of algae zooxanthellae from their tissues. This results in the corals turning completely white. Zooxanthellae are unicellular algae that live in the tissues of corals. They have a symbiotic relationship…
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All for Convenience’s Sake
Every Mumbaikar has a friend who is never far away. He has a way of greeting you the moment you step out onto the streets. At times his presence is very strong. At other times he’s a passive companion. He is a friend we affectionately call garbage. We are all well aware of terms like…
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Carbon Credits, Hoax or Hope?
What our environment craves for is to curtail the amounts of carbon emissions. Heeding to its carbon-less call, Carbon credits were developed by neo-liberal economists to shake hands with the environmentalists swapping environmental policies with economic incentives to battle against pollution. What are carbon credits? A grant or sanction certifying a particular company, individual or…
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Hybrid Vehicles! Drive Eco-Friendly
Whenever any person come across the word, ‘Nature’ or ‘Environment’, the most common and unanimous imagination is of Greenery, Trees and Plants. Well, but what if the word would appear more in textbooks and less in reality. Yes, there is a possibility, actually reality as with the decreasing rate of trees and greenery, there is…
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Robots that are Green: New World Robotics
Metal hands and metal legs and everything else covered in mental – that’s the first thing that we think of when someone says Robot. Obviously, to us it is an abiotic force that doesn’t have any feelings or emotions whatsoever and sometimes we also go as far as considering them as our personalized maids. If…
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Sewage water to potable water: Wonders of Singapore
Singapore has a booming economy with one of the world’s best health and education systems. It’s also reputed as being one of the world’s cleanest and safest cities. Despite all the prosperity the city-state does not have enough water to meet the needs of its 5.3 million citizens. Singapore thus, imports fresh water from Malaysia…
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Urban Heat Islands. What are they?
Globalization facilitates many social and economic process, one of the major being migration. Rural population migrates to urban areas in search for employment. About half the world’s population lives in these urban areas. With the ever increasing cluster of the masses, it is no surprise of how it is affecting the environment, making it more…
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GENETIC ENGINEERING: Green Signal or Not?
Genetic Engineering may be defined as the mixing of different types of genetic material so as to generate a new type of DNA sequence. It can be defined technically as “Genetic engineering alters the genetic make-up of an organism using techniques that remove heritable material or that introduces DNA prepared outside the organism either directly into the…