There are many factors that are responsible for the popularity of Yoga in our world today. The interesting thing about our body is that if we pay close attention to it, we will gain tons of information about ourselves. Our body can be likened to a barometer because it reveals fundamental information about us. This … Read more
The fires in Amazon rainforest is raging and humans likely are the reason behind it. As per environmental researchers and organizations, the wildfires raging in the rainforest were caused due to loggers and cattle ranchers. The sole reason for this is to chop off the rainforest and use the land in support of Brazil’s pro-business … Read more
West Nile virus has been detected for the first time this year in a mosquito sample in Kennewick and Richland, informed the Benton County Mosquito Control District on Thursday. The district said that the samples of mosquitoes collected from Kennewick’s Rancho Reata region tested positive for the virus on Wednesday. On the other hand, another … Read more
Rhinoplasty is basically a procedure of altering the shape of your nose or having done some changes in its structure for facial beauty or medical purposes. The people who opt for Rhinoplasty for cosmetic reasons are basically the ones who do not like the shape of their nose and think of it as a barrier … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration is commonly known as FDA or USFDA. It is a department which works for health and human services in the United States of America. The department came into existence 113 years ago. Its primary purpose is to regulate and monitor food products, tobacco products, and pharmaceutical products to prevent serious … Read more
Officials are investigating after failures at sewage treatment plants in Seattle have led to the spill of an estimated 3 million gallons of untreated sewage into Puget Sound. The Department of Ecology confirmed that a combination of “power disruptions” and the failure of the backup pumping systems at the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in … Read more
Mars is about 9 months from Earth with today’s tech, NASA reckons. As the new space race hurtles forward, Harvard researchers are asking: how do we make sure the winners can still stand when they reach the finish line? Their study shows that resveratrol substantially preserves muscle mass and strength in rats exposed to the wasting effects of … Read more
A micro-bristle-bot is shown next to a U.S. penny for size comparison. There are many challenges to developing robots that could operate within your body, not the least of which is finding a power source — you can’t exactly strap a big battery on them. That might not be an issue thanks to Georgia Tech … Read more
A long-awaited German-Russian telescope to survey the X-ray sky in unprecedented detail was successfully launched from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on 13 July. The Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (Spektr-RG) mission is designed to detect 100 000 galactic clusters allowing astrophysicists to constrain the properties of dark matter and dark energy, and hence test models of the expansion of the … Read more
An asteroid just slightly wider than the Empire State Building has confused many scientists by shooting out plumes of dust, as shown by a new set of close-up images from NASA. Bennu is the near-Earth asteroid that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been observing since December 31st last year, and is already confounding scientists in a … Read more