Every year just as the monsoon begins to retreat from Delhi, the national capital starts bracing up for a slow and steady rise in the air pollution levels. Though, the first build-up was washed away by one of the heaviest spell of rains over the region from October 7-13 and pushed the start of bad air days further ahead, it …
The ground squirrel hibernates in a unique way, burning almost no energy while it is out for the winter, with no loss of muscle mass, scientists discovered. “Essentially, seeing 13C and/or 15N in metabolites at these various steps indicated that they originated from urea, and thus, that the hibernator was using urea nitrogen salvage,” said biologist Matthew Regan. During the …
