Can you identify the difference between the two images of the houses below(Fig.1)? Isn’t it so obvious? But a certain patient observes both these images to be completely identical. This patient has suffered from a stroke that ... Read more
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Challenge Accepted!!!
Ensuring sufficient food for its growing population is a major challenge faced by humanity. An additional challenge is the increasing need for diverse plant products for fuel, fibers and chemicals. Plants sustain the life on Earth. They are the basis for ... Read more
Bees Buzz
The great Australian scientist, Karl von Frisch once said,
"The most astounding example of non-primate communication that we know is dance"The honey bee that returns to the colony after locating a food source, performs a dance ... Read more
Greatest Dance of All
Based on Dr. Sampath Seneviratne's talk, 'The Greatest Dance on the planet: A Collection of stories of the long distance migration of birds from our neighbourhood', at the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society's ... Read more
සඳ මතුපිට ජීවයක්…?
අධික උණුසුමක්, අධික සීතල කාලගුණයක් මෙන්ම අධික විකිරණශීලීත්වයක් යටතේ දිවි රැකගත හැකි ... Read more
Diabetes; The Silent Killer
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) or commonly known Diabetes is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both. In simpler terms, it is a disease or a condition that occurs when ... Read more
CRY4
Adjusting to changing times and still holding to unchanging principles is a rhyme in the World of the Winged. The migration of birds fascinated scientists for so long that the question, “How do they know where to go? ", was ... Read more
Why plants don’t freeze?
Ever wondered what happens inside the plants standing outside, exposed to chilling weather conditions without a shred of cloth on them? Isn't it amazing how they survive cold snowstorms with severe winds, left with no other ... Read more