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The News Bureau A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, seafood, dairy products, eggs, and grains may reduce the risk of miscarriage. The University of Birmingham examined 20 studies that looked at women’s and birthing people’s eating habits in the months before and shortly after conceiving a baby to see if there was evidence of an association with a lower or higher risk of miscarriage. The findings conclude that there is evidence to suggest a diet…

The News Bureau A top official of a US government body created last year to focus on sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFO) has claimed that Washington is tracking more than 650 such potential cases. Addressing a Senate Armed Services subcommittee on Wednesday, Director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Sean Kirkpatrick said the number of cases was up from the 350 reports referenced in an unclassified intelligence report on unidentified aerial phenomena…

The News Bureau Scientists at NASA have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil, even as the space agency works toward sending astronauts to the Moon through Artemis missions. Lunar soil refers to the fine-grained material covering the Moon’s surface. This was the first time that this extraction has been done in a vacuum environment, paving the way for astronauts to one day extract and use resources in a lunar environment, called in-situ resource utilisation.…

The News Bureau For the first time, astronomers have detected an image of a powerful jet exploding from a black hole. The observations of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) could help reveal how black holes can launch such energetic jets – among the brightest objects in the universe. “We know that jets are ejected from the region surrounding black holes, but we still do not fully understand how…

The News Bureau Since Meta launched TikTok-rival short-video app Reels, AI recommendations have driven a more than 24 per cent increase in time spent on Instagram, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. Reels continues to grow quickly on both Facebook and Instagram. “Reels also continue to become more social with people resharing Reels more than 2 billion times every day, doubling over the last six months. Reels are also increasing overall app engagement and…

The News Bureau In a breakthrough discovery, scientists discovered a way for highly effective, reversible and non-hormonal male contraceptive for humans and animals. Scientists identified a gene, which when blocked or deactivated via drugs can reduce sperm count. The findings are detailed in the journal Nature Communications. The team from Washington State University identified expression of the gene, Arrdc5, in the testicular tissue of mice, pigs, cattle and humans. When they knocked out the gene…

The News Bureau Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits were in use in hospitals since long. But they became popular since Covid-19 outbreak. The PPE kits also became a cause of concern for the environmentalists because they are made of plastic and typically swells-up landfills. But the PPE kits should not be a cause of concern anymore as a team of engineering students has devised a method to turn the PPE waste into bricks that are…

The News Bureau Independent scientist Srinivas Chamarthy has travelled over two lakh kilometers in eight years delivering 367 lectures and participating in 559 interactions. In pursuit of self reliant nation, Srinivas interacts with youngsters from Engineering, Scientific Community and in social forums. The lectures were mostly direct interactions with youth and a few online talks during Covid period. With M.E (PhD) from Osmania University and experienced over two decades of innovation and product development on…

The News Bureau Hindu students in the UK are the alleged targets of bullying and racial discrimination in classrooms with Muslim students threatening them to change their religion to make their lives easier, according to a London-based think tank. Quoting a study by the Henry Jackson Society, The Telegraph reported that Muslim students called for Hindus to convert or face “threats of hell for disbelievers” using terms such as “kaffir”. Half of the Hindu parents…

The News Bureau Chinese authorities banned most Uyghurs praying in mosques and even in their homes during the Eid ul-Fitr holiday in many parts of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. People aged 60 and older were allowed to pray in a local mosque under heavy police surveillance during Eid, Radio Free Asia reported. Since 2017, China has restricted or banned ethnic customs and religious rituals among the mostly Muslim Uyghurs in an effort to stamp…