Shenade Annie Kerketta, Amity University Kolkata Today, due to the massive increase in population and all sorts of pollution, food production is becoming a growing problem. We, humans, are trying to reverse our harmful doings. We are trying to conserve our resources and recycle waste. This article is going to talk about one of the […]
Priasha Dutta, Amity University Kolkata INTRODUCTION Water, one of the fundamental sources of life, is capable of being an annoyance for some individuals. Aquagenic urticaria (AU) or “water allergy” is a unique form of physical or chronic inducible urticaria caused by water exposure. Urticaria (also called hives) is a skin reaction in response to an […]
Subhajit Nan, Amity University, Kolkata Scientists gain important insights into the formation of the solar system by studying meteorite fragments that hit the surface of the earth from space. Presently, in the latest study, they have found water in the liquid form, containing high levels of carbon dioxide, inside a meteorite from an asteroid that […]
Anjali Kumari, IILM College of Engineering and Technology The credit for the discovery of Antarctica is typically given to the Europeans but according to new research that is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Polynesians discovered Antarctica over 1300 years ago. It is believed that they were among the […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta “When the ocean speaks, the Greenland Ice Sheet listens,” said Oceans Melting Greenland’s Principal Investigator Josh Willis. The image above presents a finding that is definitely a step forward in terms of research and rather worrying in terms of the current climate crisis. The image captured by Operational Land Imager […]
Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata Handicapped microbes that survive drug attacks are more dangerous than the living ones, as very soon they develop resistance to that specific drug. Macrolides, a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics that has a macrocyclic structure are produced by strains of Streptomyces. These are generally prescribed in case of bacterial infections […]
Aishila Kar, Amity University Kolkata Plant parasitism is an occurrence by which the parasite plant latches onto and soak up water and nutrients from another host plant, with the help of an organ called the “haustorium.” Once the haustorium forms, specific enzymes then help in setting up a relationship between the tissues of the parasite […]
