Author: Naima Syed

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is linked to excessive misuse of drugs available in the market by individuals. This has rendered the bacteria an evolutionary ability to draw resistance towards drugs which were once known to be effective. The antibiotics overuse have triggered a relatively obscure pandemic causing 13 lakhs deaths worldwide in 2019 alone. Furthermore, treatment for antibiotic resistance is pricey, prolonged, with high fatality rates. The miracle drugs therefore have fallen from their esteemed position in pharmacology and healthcare. Antimicrobial resistance is driven either by the emergence of new mutations in the bacteria or the acquisition of resistant genes…

Can soil be a contributing factor to the global climate crisis? A study indicates an approximate increase of 2% per decade in heterotrophic respiration since the 1980s. A recent research published in Nature Communications elaborated on the future soar in the CO2 emissions by at least 40% by the year 2100, typically in polar areas.Although soil CO2 accounts for only 20% share in the total atmospheric CO2, but as the surge in atmospheric CO2 is directly proportional to global warming, the study has shown significant relation between the two. The Soil and Climate Study The study was a collaborative effort…

Technologies have become a key to almost all of our comforts in a day-to-day cycle. But, how many of us are aware that these technologies are our only hope of turning into a net-zero economy. With the climate crisis in action, a set of pronto reactions from the human community is the need of the hour. Net-zero is the idea of using alternative sources like solar energy other than conventional fuel sources like fossil fuels to eliminate carbon emissions completely. It is often coupled with a similar term, ‘carbon neutral’, which is a wider term encompassing net-zero as one of…

Exercising to some of us is a fresh start to a heavy work-day, a relief from stress, or maybe a simple walk in nature. For gym enthusiasts, it is a way of living up in shape and maintaining the physics and dynamics of the body. But to some people, it might just not be an ideal way to remain fit.  As according to the research reported by scientists at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, exercising may lead up to an increase in heart rate in individuals with blocked carotid arteries, resulting in brain strokes. Blocked arteries is a very…

Ocean vortexes, more commonly known as whirlpools or eddies are strong circular currents of water. While whirlpools are the feeble ones, eddies or vortexes are powerful formations in the oceans. The ocean vortexes are particularly caused due to the downdraft movement of air currents or tides in the ocean. One of the biggest whirlpools ever tracked from the satellite is the Great Whirl which is if not less, then of approximate perimeter as that of Colorado, forms every year near the coast of Somalia. It is recorded to reach an area of up to 275,000 square kilometers when it reaches…

Sun, unlike earth, is not a hard mass of land and water. Instead, the sun is defined equal to an igneous orb containing typically elemental helium and hydrogen. The sun, which is the center of our solar system and the magnanimous object of our solar system, has some really astonishing facts that surround it. The outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere is referred to as ‘Corona’. It is this dense layer which is visible during solar eclipse through the means of special-care instruments. As the sun is the epitome of light and high temperatures, the gas that we talk about…