These six health secrets are not new, but this article elaborates on them and provides useful insights into how our body works and what makes us tick, especially during physical activities. They are not all. To know, read on! Why is it important to eat energy-boosting foods before engaging in physical activities? Take, for example, your favourite Tennis player on the court struggling to concentrate, missing crucial sitter shots, and making decisions erroneously. Chances are that he has not had a proper pre-match meal. This is a classic case of poor mental focus caused due to insufficient nutrition. Several other…
Author: Sunil Rajanna
Sunil Rajanna
An engineer who is interested in how nature works and is 'designed'. Nature has been my bottomless reserve of innovative ideas. Including my passion for writing. Learning never stops. It is a cliche..... does it matter?! Sunil Rajanna
Cryptocurrencies (cryptos) are again on the rise after Trump’s victory. But are they good instruments for investing financially without excessive risks? That is the million-dollar question. ATH (All Time High) of Bitcoins is at $ 95,200, which looks good for BTC, but will it reach the 1,00,000 tip? What about other cryptos like Ethereum, The answer to all these is in this article: read on and be enlightened. What’s in the name ‘Cryptocurrency’? The prefix ‘crypto’ comes from scientific cryptography. This uses mathematical methods to safeguard information in the digital domain. They are popularly called ‘Cryptos’. During the war in…
Israeli Military, just after 8 days of the recent ceasefire agreement, have intensified airstrikes in southern Lebanon in retaliation to Hezbollah’s firing projectiles into Golan Heights. This raises the fear of the collapse of a ceasefire in Lebanon. These are cities that Alexander the Great once occupied around 320 BCE. This bombing is retaliation to Hezbollah’s firing of two mortars at an Israeli army base. Airstrike on 11 areas along with Beqaa Valley. Lebanon National News Agency (NNA) said IDF struck 11 areas of southern Lebanon on Monday night. This also included the historic city of Beqaa. Around 12 people…
Ahead of the UNCCD summit of 200 nations in Riyadh this week, a paper on land sustainability reports that land is degrading at the rate of 1 million sq km per year and has already lost around 15 million sq km, equivalent to the area of Antarctica. Something needs to be done collaboratively and soon. NOTE: UNCCD-UN Convention on Combating Desertification. Global Desertification/Degration Perspective and the Report UNCCD estimates that approximately 46.2% of land on earth is affected by desertification in varying degrees. Severely affected areas are Arid, Semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions, which are about 41% of Earth and…
Electric Vehicles are a rage today, and they run on batteries. Learn about what EV batteries are made of and snuff out the myths! Chinese are once again at the helm of cutting-edge technology innovations, this time for hybrid EV batteries. Chinese firm CATL Freevoy Super Hybrid Battery offers hybrid EVs a 248-mile ‘pure electric’ driving range on a single 10-minute charge.
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The Axiom Ax-4 mission on SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft will be launched in the spring of 2025. Another feather in the cap for Indian space scientists and enthusiasts alike.
Indian Coach says: “no need for CWG! India should not participate!” Coaches Pullela Gopichand and Vimal Kumar yesterday criticised and slammed the exclusion of sports like Hockey, Badminton, Shooting, Wrestling, T20 cricket, table Tennis, etc, in the next edition of CWG in 2026 at Glasgow. Mixed bag of views While there is reason for intense and diverse discussions in the media and sporting circles on the exclusion of sports that India has traditionally performed well, it seems unfounded when looked at deeper. For example, the following sports have been dropped at CWG 2026: These are sports in India that have…
The asteroid is predicted to pass by Earth without consequences. NASA assures that there is no risk to Earth from this incident. What is it, and why is it important? NEO: 2002 NV16 Distance from Earth: 4,520,000 km (At a safe distance beyond the Moon’s orbit.) The asteroid passing our Earth has sparked interest because it helps in the study of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs). Studying such asteroids will benefit NASA and other Space organizations in their efforts to improve defence strategies against Near-Earth objects (NEOs). What are NEOs? A NEO is any space object near the earth’s orbit,…
