Aerosols heating up Himalayan climate, accelerating retreat of glaciers: Study
New Delhi: Aerosols are heating up the Himalayan climate and contributing significantly to the accelerated retreat of the glaciers and changes in the precipitation patterns over the Hindu Kush-Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau (HKHTP) region, researchers said. Aerosols alone account for more than half of the total warming of the region’s lower atmosphere, with the remainder coming from […]
Male infertility increasing worldwide, say scientists
New Delhi: Experts worldwide are calling on governments and health systems to acknowledge that male infertility may be increasing worldwide. They have provided a first-time roadmap for urgent, global action to address the common yet serious medical condition in a consensus report that includes recommendations and is published in the journal Nature Reviews Urology. The […]
How working night shifts messes up appetite and food habits: Study
New Delhi: Scientists reveal how working night shifts interferes with appetite, hunger and food habits, sometimes resulting in weight gain. The disruption in the body’s biological clock, or circadian misalignment, brought about by working night shifts affects the hormones which regulating appetite, the team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, UK, said. Circadian […]
By 2027 yearly power demands of AI could surpass those of small countries: Study
New Delhi: By 2027, the electricity powering artificial intelligence (AI)-related activities could exceed the yearly power demands of countries such as the Netherlands, Argentina and Sweden, new research finds. Wide adoption of AI could have a large energy footprint as generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT that create content based on the data they were […]
Climate change may make India, Indus Valley too hot for 2.2 billion people: Study
New Delhi: Climate change could expose up to 2.2 billion people in India’s Indus Valley and Pakistan to many hours of heat that surpass human tolerance by the end of the century, according to new study. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that if global temperatures […]
India had world’s highest number of preterm births in 2020: Lancet Study
New Delhi: India recorded 3.02 million preterm births in 2020 –the highest worldwide — accounting for over 20 per cent of all preterm births globally, according to a study published in the The Lancet journal. The research by authors from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the London School […]
Earthquake-predicting tool driven by AI shows 70 per cent accuracy: Study
New Delhi: An AI-driven tool was 70 per cent accurate in predicting earthquakes a week before they happened during a seven-month trial in China, scientists report. The outcome was a weekly forecast in which the AI successfully predicted 14 earthquakes within about 200 miles, or 320 kilometres, of where it estimated they would happen and […]
Water Zorbing at Dal Lake attracts tourists, locals in hordes
Srinagar: The iconic Dal Lake here has got a new attraction with the introduction of water zorbing — an adventure activity that allows enthusiasts to roll inside transparent, inflatable spheres on the water. While the activity was available at the tourist resorts of Sonamarg and Pahalgam, its introduction in Dal Lake has been welcomed by […]
Govt notifies amendments to decriminalise Cable TV law
New Delhi: In a bid to boost investor confidence, the government on Thursday notified amendments to the Cable Television Networks Rules that provide the operational mechanism for implementation of the decriminalised provisions of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act. Section 16 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 dealt with the punishment for contraventions […]
Why men are more likely to experience severe Covid cases decoded
New Delhi: Scientists have uncovered biological reasons behind why men are more likely to experience severe cases of COVID-19 than women, offering a promising new strategy to prevent the viral disease. The pre-clinical research in mice, published in the journal iScience, has yet to be replicated in humans, but points to the ACE2 protein as […]