SC junks per-serve labelling plea, calls FSSAI's phased FOPL rollout 'ambiguous'; seeks timeline in 10 daysSupreme Court rejected the packaged food industry's plea for per-serve measurements. The court asked the FSSAI to justify its two-phase imp...
In 130 days, deep beneath the Ore Mountains bacteria turned uranium-contaminated mine water into a chemical trap, removing 95% of the dissolved metal and forming a rare compound that can remain stable for decadesDeep underground, bacteria may offer a new answer to uranium contamination. In a 130-day laboratory experiment, microbes fed with glycerol ...
Norway fines man thousands of dollars for disturbing sleeping polar bear with ship's foghornA person in Svalbard received a substantial fine for deliberately disturbing a polar bear. The incident involved sounding a foghorn, which ...
Jet fuel made from tropical fruit gets $3 billion backingResearchers in Brazil are pioneering the use of macauba palm oil as a sustainable aviation fuel alternative. This groundbreaking project fo...
In 2023, researchers in a West African nation tried to discover which pizza do lizards prefer and won an Ig Nobel Prize for its discoveryA curious study in Togo unveiled rainbow lizards choosing four-cheese pizza instead of their usual insect diet. Observations made near a so...
The ethanol story is changing. Is investing in the ecosystem the better way? 15 stocks across different market cap segmentsThe ethanol story started simply enough: Cut India's dependence on imported crude oil. It would save foreign exchange. Give farmers a new a...
FSSAI notices to Lotte India, Ferns N Petals, Kubera Foods for misleading claimsFood regulator FSSAI has issued notices to three companies for labelling violations. Lotte India faced action for non-compliant labels and ...
Chunk wins Fat Bear Week 2025 after years as runner-up despite broken jaw injuryBrown bear Chunk wins Fat Bear Week 2025 with nearly 100,000 votes, defeating Bear 856 after years as runner-up. The 1,200-pound bear overc...
Fat Bear Week 2025: Meet the contestants and who will be crowned this year's winnerFat Bear Week 2025 honours the brown bears of Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska, as they compete to win the portly crown. From S...
What is Fat Bear Week? History, time, contest for the title and all you may want to knowFat Bear Week, an annual online event hosted by the National Park Service, celebrates the remarkable ability of Katmai National Park's brow...
Un-bearable? How global warming may cause mama polar bears to run out of milkOur research, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, found that polar bear lactation is negatively affected by increased time spent o...
Fat Bear Week 2022: Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve says it is 'all about survival' lessonIncreased public awareness of how bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve are coping with the consequences of climate change is...
Fat is not bad! Well-functioning fat adipose tissues are key to your good health. Read howRecent research has suggested that the function of our fat tissue, or adipose tissue, is central to why our bodies decay with age, and stro...
Polar bears starving due to climate change: StudyThe study revealed that polar bears have higher metabolic rates than previously thought, and the climate change is affecting their environm...
Humans want to emulate big-eating animals like polar bears, and yet stay thinAnnoyingly, those roly-poly polar bears can also say with the same panache as the average slim-fit Levi’s that it’s all in the genes.
Genetic adaptation key to polar bears staying warmHow do polar bears keep warm in winter? It may be in their genes!
- Dinosaurs died as they failed to generate heat?
If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago, for a new study has claimed that lack of a heat-gener...