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India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission spacecraft commences collecting scientific data

September 18, 2023 admin

Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Aditya-L1, India’s maiden solar mission, on board PSLV-C57 lifts off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, on September 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission spacecraft has commenced collecting scientific data to help scientists analyse particles surrounding Earth, ISRO said on September…

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Cats are killing India’s birds. Are we paying attention?

September 17, 2023 admin

On the basis of 30 million observations by more than 30,000 birdwatchers, the ‘State of Indian Birds 2023’ exercise recently concluded that birds in India are faring poorly. Among many factors, the report acknowledged a silent bird-killer lurking in India’s urban areas: cats. Cats may seem to pale in the shadow of the threats posed…

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Science This Week | CSIR announces Bhatnagar prize winners, NASA names chief of UFO research and more

September 17, 2023 admin

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research announced the winners of the Bhatnagar Prize 2022 after a year’s delay while Kerala reports another outbreak of Nipah virus. Find all the latest news, discoveries and findings that happened in the field of science this week. NASA names chief of UFO research NASA has named a new…

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NASA names chief of UFO research; panel sees no alien evidence

September 17, 2023 admin

NASA has said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP. | Photo Credit: AP NASA on Thursday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP, while the U.S. space agency’s chief said an…

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Germany signs U.S.-led space norms pact Artemis Accords

September 17, 2023 admin

The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP Germany on Thursday became the 29th country to sign the Artemis Accords, a U.S.-led multilateral agreement meant to establish norms of behaviour in space and…

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One-third of TB patients received no payment for nutrition support

September 16, 2023 admin

Undernourishment causes nearly 1.2 million TB cases each year in India. | Photo Credit: AP Undernutrition is the leading risk factor for TB disease. In 2019, Preeti Sudan, Secretary in the Health Ministry noted letter that undernutrition at the population level contributes to 55% of annual TB incidence in India. A 2022 study noted that 45% of…

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Is it possible to reduce the risk of depression?

September 16, 2023 admin

A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, healthy sleep and frequent social connection, while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behaviour, reduces the risk of depression, new research has found (Nature Mental Health). The researchers looked at a combination of factors including lifestyle factors, genetics, brain structure and…

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Over 75% of European bumblebee species threatened in the next 40-60 years

September 16, 2023 admin

More than 75% of European bumblebee species may be threatened in the next 40-60 years according to worst-case-scenario projections of bumblebee populations, according to a paper published in Nature. Degradation of habitats and alterations of climate due to human activity are identified as key drivers of these estimated population declines. The findings underscore the importance of…

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Why Nipah virus outbreaks are occurring only in Kerala

September 16, 2023 admin

Health workers wait to admit patients at a Nipah isolation ward at the Medical College, in Kozhikode on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI Since May 2018 when Kerala reported the first Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode district, there have been three more outbreaks of Nipah virus including the latest one in late-August 2023. For reasons still…

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The cosmological constant problem is one of the biggest crises in physics

September 15, 2023 admin

Supernova remnant SNR 0454-67.2 is likely the result of a Type Ia supernova explosion. In the late 1990s, scientists studied the light from such supernovae to find that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. | Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Can you get rid of all the energy in the room in which you are reading this?…

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