Scientific India Magazine - September - October 2021

In this issue

Why do tortoises live so long?
This is a very complex question. Turtles and tortoises have been on planet Earth even before the dinosaurs. They are that old. The difference between a turtle and tortoise is that the turtle stays in water while the tortoise stays on land.

Why Do Tortoises Live So Long?

The term longevity is sometimes meant to refer only to especially longlived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is always defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age.

2 mins

Nano Plastics from Disposable Face Masks – Need for Awareness

The COVID-19 pandemic has made the entire World to impose a lockdown. Due to the lockdown measures and shutdown of industries, the planet had a good opportunity to reduce its pollution in terms of air quality.

3 mins

Toward next-generation brain-computer interface systems

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are emerging assistive devices that may one day help people with brain or spinal injuries to move or communicate. BCI systems depend on implantable sensors that record electrical signals in the brain and use those signals to drive external devices like computers or robotic prosthetics.

2 mins

Lizards without legs but don't call them snakes

Legless lizards are normal lizards that lost their legs. Legless lizards didn't just Lkick off their legs and slither away one day. Over millions of years, the animals developed smaller and smaller limbs until, eventually, their legs and arms disappeared. This kind of change, which is called evolution, often happens over long periods of time.

1 min

Milk is more than a food for the neonate in animal production system Swine

Lactocrine term is used to describe the milk Lborne bioactive factors (MbFs) that transfer from mother to offspring/s via lactation. The MbFs play a significant role in providing immunity, survival, growth, and development of new-born.

6 mins

Will It Be Safe For Humans To Fly To Mars?

Sending human travelers to Mars would require scientists and engineers to overcome a range of technological and safety obstacles. One of them is the grave risk posed by particle radiation from the sun, distant stars, and galaxies.

2 mins

Why Pluto is no longer a planet?

Each year on August 24, the international scientific community recognizes Pluto's historic downgrade with a holiday called Pluto Demoted Day. In 2006, astronomers gathered in Prague to consider a very basic question: How many planets are in our solar system?

1 min

Amazon forest Fires may have affected up to 85 percent of threatened species

In the last two decades, deforestation and forest fires have encroached on the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the Amazon rainforest, including up to 85 percent of threatened species in the region, researchers report in Nature. Since 2001, an area up to the size of Washington State has burned.

1 min

Effects of climate change on fish stocks

Climate change is the statistical change in the course of Crime over a period of decades from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average season or a change in the events around an average season.

5 mins

Self-Doctoring: Bringing To The Never Ending Trail Of Antibiotic Resistance

On a serious note, the few comparative studies done Oexclusively on the self-use of antibiotics among populations have shown concern on the critical rise of antibiotics resistance.

2 mins

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