As people embark on their financial journey, they encounter various tools to help them manage their finances. Credit cards are one such tool that, if used properly, can help people meet their short-term financial goals while maintaining a healthy bank balance. As of February 2024, the total number of credit cards issued by banks operating […]
This sensor could travel into the stomach to help diagnose gastrointestinal conditions Prostock-studio/Shutterstock A swallowable sensor can unfurl in the stomach, non-invasively recording nervous system signals to decipher a person’s digestion and gut health. The pill-size capsule contains a long, skinny sensor that expands to align with the stomach’s inside wall. In an experiment with
In this ever-evolving digital era, a domain name is as essential as your business name. If we look at global stats, the number of internet users is increasing daily. Keeping this in focus, the businesses targeted this digital population and started selling bathing soaps to drones on the internet. This strategy worked very well for
A Megymenum stink bug Young Swee Ming/Shutterstock Female stink bugs have a bizarre organ that they use to cultivate a garden of fungi, which in turn helps protect their eggs from a species of parasitic wasp. Takanori Nishino at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, and his colleagues found
Highlights Date: Monday, May 6, 2024 Time: 1:30 AM (IST) Track: Miami International Autodrome The upcoming weekend marks the Miami Grand Prix Formula 1 race, which will commence from today, i.e Friday, May 3, 2024. The final race of the Miami Grand Prix Live is scheduled for Monday, May 6, 2024, at 1:30 AM (IST)
A bee from the genus Euglossa, also known as orchid bees Pete Carr Photography FEW insects (or even animals) hold quite as much sway on the planet as bees. As pollinators that flock from flower to flower, crop to crop, they keep the world’s flora and biodiversity thriving. And yet, thanks to a myriad of deadly
Indoor climbing walls may have high levels of rubber particles in the air fotodelux/Getty Images Climbers and workers at indoor climbing walls may be breathing in large doses of potentially toxic rubber additives, according to a study reporting that the air and dust in climbing centres contain high levels of rubber particles from the soles
Roots of the walking palm Wagner Campelo / Alamy The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. I’ve been thinking a lot about roots lately. In the seven years I spent studying and researching plants at university, there was always something
Artist’s impression showing a fast radio burst travelling from a distant host galaxy to reach Earth ESO/M. Kornmesser One of the most puzzling phenomena in space may finally have an explanation. It might be caused by the interactions between a “dead” neutron star and a planet in tight orbit around it. The strange phenomenon in
Red squirrels can carry bacteria that cause leprosy Karin Greevy/Shutterstock The DNA of leprosy-causing bacteria has been found in the remains of people and a red squirrel unearthed at medieval sites in the UK. This makes red squirrels the earliest known non-human hosts of the infection and suggests it may have spread between the rodents