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2 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Sanjukta Mondal
The use of medical cannabis or marijuana for managing cancer-related symptoms such as pain, appetite loss and nausea has long been contested. The path to reaching a scientific consensus was obstructed by research restrictions posed by the classification of cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance.
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6 days ago | 
phys.org | Sanjukta Mondal
Red roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates a large genomic analysis by researchers from Beijing Forestry University, China. Roses of all colors, including white, red, pink, and peach, belong to the genus Rosa, which is a member of the Rosaceae family.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Sanjukta Mondal
Hidden within sphagnum moss, commonly known as peat moss, is an adsorbent material that can help us combat oil spills. A study by researchers from China presents a new bio-based oil adsorbent derived from sphagnum moss that can selectively soak up oil.
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1 week ago | 
thehindu.com | Sanjukta Mondal
The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most fearsome predators on the planet. These unassuming crustaceans use a hammer-shaped appendage called the dactyl club to strike their prey at a blistering 23 m/s (about 50-times faster than the blink of an eye), smashing into the poor creature’s body like a bullet from a gun fired point blank.
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1 week ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Sanjukta Mondal
Exercise therapy is suggested as a first-line treatment to improve joint pain and loss of function caused by osteoarthritis (OA), a musculoskeletal disorder that affects more than 595 million people worldwide. Yoga and strengthening exercises are both known to be effective ways of managing knee OA, but is one better than the other?
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1 month ago | 
phys.org | Sanjukta Mondal
Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich land crucial to unlocking the mysteries surrounding the evolution of mammals over the last 10 million years.
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1 month ago | 
phys.org | Sanjukta Mondal
The term greenhouse gas often brings carbon dioxide (CO2) to mind, and rightly so, as it is a key contributor to rising global temperatures. However, a more potent pollutant and greenhouse gas that often gets overlooked is nitrous oxide (N2O). Molecule for molecule, N2O is and is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than expected.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Sanjukta Mondal
In the 17th-century, a German alchemist named Hennig Brandt was on a quest to find the “philosopher’s stone”, a mysterious object that could turn any ordinary metal into gold. When he realised the golden colour of urine, he believed it contained tiny particles of the precious metal. Brand then collected urine from himself, his family, and beer drinkers at his local pub and began distilling it in the hope of finding gold at the end.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Sanjukta Mondal
Recently, the Supreme Court said that all candidates with disabilities can take scribes to write their exams without meeting the benchmark disabilities criteria. Benchmark disability means a person with 40 percent of a specified disability as per the certificate issued by a government authority. Through a few previous judgments as well the court has upheld the need for scribes for students with disabilities.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Sanjukta Mondal
Vocal communication plays an outsized role in how social animals survive in the wild. A loud cry from a baby attracts the attention of a parent. A scream can warn others of a predator lurking nearby. Humans have developed thousands of languages, spoken and signed, to share information, ideas, and emotions — yet they’re not alone among the earth’s life forms in communicating in complicated ways and out loud.
