Researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute, University of Washington, USA, and Oklahoma State University, USA, have reported the economic losses and associated health risk caused by stubble burning in some parts of north India.
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Today’s world has more adolescents—children in the age group of 10-24 years—than ever in history. Of the 1.8 billion adolescents, a third of them, or 622 million, live in India and China. With this fraction of people growing up to be future citizens, are we doing enough to have their needs met?
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಅಶೋಕ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ನ ಡಾ. ರವಿಕಾಂತ್ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ಸಹೋದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳು ನಾರ್ವೆಯ ಓಸ್ಲೋ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಸಂಶೋಧಕರ ಸಹಯೋಗದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಸಿದ ಹೊಸ ಅಧ್ಯಯನವೊಂದರಲ್ಲಿ, ಗಾರ್ಸಿನಿಯಾ ಅಥವಾ ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ ಹಣ್ಣುಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅವುಗಳಿಂದ ತಯಾರಿಸುವ ಪೂರಕ ಆಹಾರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲಬೆರಕೆಯಿರುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕರಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
Researchers at IIT Kanpur show that increasing the levels of specific microRNAs reduce the progression of prostate cancer.
An international collaboration of researchers, including two from IISc Bengaluru, have described a new starry frog Astrobatrachus kurichiyana from the Western Ghats.
Oryza sativa, or rice, is the staple food of more than half the world’s population and supports the livelihoods of around 145 million households. Since its domestication thousands of years ago, rice has played an essential role in shaping civilisations.
An international team of researchers from India, Spain, Nepal, Myanmar, Italy and Germany have examined how climate change and human activities are affect the distribution of the Asian elephants in India and Nepal.
आई आई टी मुंबई के संशोधकोंने गावों में इस्तेमाल के लिए किफायती और कम रखरखाव वाला आर्सेनिक फ़िल्टर विकसित किया
रुग्णाच्या आरोग्याच्या निर्देशक असलेल्या ईसीजी आणि ईईजीसारख्या चाचण्यांवर सतत लक्ष ठेवण्यासाठी शास्त्रज्ञांनी कमी उर्जेवर चालणाऱ्या, कमी किंमतीच्या आणि अंगावर बाळगता येईल अशा बिनतारी उपकरणाची रचना केली आहे.
Global incidences of disease outbreaks such as Ebola, SARS, Avian influenza, etc., are increasing with over sixty percent of infectious human diseases being of zoonotic or animal origin. Human infections and fatalities occur only when zoonotic pathogens spill over from animals, upon attainment of certain specific parameters.