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  10 Benefits of Potatoes | Health and Skin The potato is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant  Solanum tuberosum. It belongs to the family ‘Solanaceae’ and genus ‘Solunum’. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated by the indigenous people of Americas. It was domesticated around 7,000-10,000 years ago. Also read | Diet during Covid-19 Potatoes were introduced to Europe from America within the last half of the 16 th century by the Spanish. The most rapid expansion in production over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia. As of 2018, China and India became the leading countries in the overall production. Today, it is regarded as the essential crop in Northern and Eastern Europe and gradually became the staple food in many parts of the world. Image by DiViArt The vegetative and fruiting parts of the potato contain the toxin solanine which is dangerous for human consumption.   Normal potato tubers

Stargazing Events of August 2020 With the appearance of Comet NEOWISE , July was the best month loaded with many astronomical events for stargazing. However August is no less than July with its perfect stargazing weather and dark skies. If you also missed to spot the NEOWISE like me, you will get many other chances in this month. Although I should have posted this article before starting this month, but it’s not that late to watch the remaining events in the early August.  So, check out these space events of August 2020 and let me know in the comment section, 'which one is the most curious event you are waiting to see?'. Also read: Who will be the first Woman on Moon? August 1-Triangle of Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn Image Courtesy of Starry Night Education On August 1st, the Moon made a lovely triangle with Jupiter and Saturn low in the southeast after sunset. The trio was visible all night, rising to its highest point in the south. If you did miss them, there's an

Unravelling the phenomenon of those artistic natural lights : AURORA   Aurora, an amazingly beautiful graphical paint on nature’s sky have reasonably inspired tons of myths and saga over the years.  Like, the Vikings worshiped Odin as the main god and regent of Asgard. They believed that he was preparing for Ragnarök the end of the gods and beginning of a new world. According to legends, Ragnarök was destined to become Odin’s biggest battle. Female mounted warriors, the Valkyries armed with armour and spears, had the task to escorting the warriors from earth to Odin.  The northern lights that illuminated the sky were believed to be the after scene of the Vikings, the reflections of the armour of these warriors. But, these all are wrong.   An aurora is the utterly spectacular and dazzling natural scientific phenomenon, display in the Earth’s sky, mostly seen in the high latitude regions. Aurora is a beautiful stuff mother earth is capable of. The northern  and southern lights, a

Artificial Biosynthetic spider silk – from bacteria to plants to goats Before we start discussing about the production of biosynthetic spider silk, we shall introduce to you- Randy Lewis, a professor formerly at the University of Wyoming and now at Utah State University,  who was also able to successfully breed spider goats in order to create artificial silk. As of 2012, there are about 30 spider goats at a university-run farm and he has been under this research since 90’s. However, there were scientists and researchers who had worked on this before him. Image by| fietzfotos On 29 th of July, 2020, while working in the kitchen I suddenly found an old newspaper of August 23 2018 ‘The Assam Tribune’, where I found an interesting article on a bacteria which can produce synthetic spider silk.  I searched the research article in the international journal ‘ Biomacromolecules ’, and found many articles related to this.  On 30 th of July, 2020, after reading over 20 reports and ar