Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an escalating public health crisis with the potential to undermine the effectiveness of current antibiotics, leading to longer hospital stays, more intensive care, and higher mortality rates. To address AMR, we must recognise that it is a multifaceted issue influenced by various sectors such as human health, animal husbandry, agriculture, and … Read more
Down the first left on Brigade Road, Bengaluru’s pulsating heart is a tiny lane that curls past fast-food joints packed with college students and tourists. The street leads towards a set of old buildings with fading yellow paint. Some are homes with mosaic or red-oxide flooring and a few others are stores and one such … Read more
Some of the innovations of GD Naidu on display at the GD Science Museum in Coimbatore city. | Photo Credit: M. PERIASAMY Why do peacocks have long tail feathers? Why do the eyes of dogs and cats gleam at night? What powers cars? These were some of the subjects of conversations that a barely four-year-old … Read more
After several decades, the scholarship of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is getting global attention. In the last four years, four biographies by different scholars and four scholarly books, excluding a set of five volumes on Dr. Ambedkar’s life and philosophy, have been written. Still, scholars from different disciplines or through interdisciplinary approaches are reluctant to … Read more
The earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a strange increase in the radioactive isotope beryllium-10 during that time. This finding, now published in Nature Communications, opens new pathways for geologists to date past events gleaned from deep … Read more
A woman checks her wedding dress at a bridal shop in Luliang, in northern China’s Shanxi province on February 11. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: There has been a major decline in the number of couples who are registering to marry in China. As per the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs, in … Read more
Good pitch: The Ford assembled its cars at 200 Mount Road, to the left of what is now Gove Building. Last week’s story of American automobiles in Madras left me with a feeling that something had remained unsaid. But try as I might, I could not put my finger on it. And is often the … Read more
Unregulated autorickshaw stands have cropped up at many locations of Chennai, encroaching upon public space and carriageways, in the midst of ever-increasing vehicle population in the city. Over 54,37,270 vehicles ply on the Chennai roads, resulting in congestion and causing delay in commute. More than one lakh autorickshaws operate in the city. More than 115 … Read more
New Delhi, Feb. 18: The Finance Minister, Mr. C. Subramaniam, told the Rajya Sabha to-day that the Government was awaiting the report of the expert committees to take suitable measures to control the banking operations of non-banking companies. Mr. Subramaniam said the Government wanted to prohibit the non-banking institutions from receiving deposits from the public. … Read more
A debate about the age of Saturn’s resplendent rings has been raging for a few decades now, with no end in sight. A new study by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics has fresh spin to offer now that could recast the conversation. Saturn’s rings are an … Read more