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An undated artist’s impression of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic winds. | Photo Credit: ESO/L. Calcada/Reuters In the earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442 km per hour, but they are…
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Just as 2024 was the year India developed a vision for its space programme, 2025 is likely to have the programme in mission mode. The PSLV-C60 mission, underway as the year began, laid the foundations for Chandrayaan-4 and the Bharatiya Antariksh Station. Forthcoming test flights will move India closer to human spaceflight, soon to receive…
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ISRO’s launch vehicle GSLV-F15 carrying the NVS-02 satellite at the launch pad ahead of its launch, at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh on January 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI via @isro/X ISRO on Sunday (January 26, 2025) said integration of its rocket GSLV-F15 with satellite NVS-02 is complete. The GSLV-F15 rocket…
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Dinosaurs long dominated the earth’s land ecosystems with multiple forms, including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus, and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, with its Wolverine-like claws. But the origin of dinosaurs — precisely when and where they first appeared — remains a bit of a puzzle. Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for…
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A new study has for the first time described a phenomenon researchers refer to as ‘contagious urinations’. The study of 20 captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan shows that, when one chimpanzee pees, others are more likely to follow. The researchers documented peeing behaviours in the Kumamoto chimpanzees over more than 600 hours,…
That targeted nutritional support to TB patients and household contacts can improve TB treatment outcomes, reduce the number of new cases and deaths is now well known, particularly after the RATIONS trial carried out in between August 2019 and August 2022 in four districts of Jharkhand among 2,800 pulmonary TB patients and 10,345 household contacts. The trial…
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Several ophthalmology institutions in South India connect village and town eyecare workers with research centres in hospitals In the book Mission Possible by Swami Subramanian and Aparajithan Srivathsan (Notion Press, Chennai), they suggest ways to pave the road to Universal Health Coverage. It is a positive book that suggests paving the way to universal health coverage, with…
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Scientists have validated a unique protocol that can extend the survival of heart transplants in nonhuman primates without the need for immune suppression. Their studies build on previous preclinical work showing that cotransplanting hearts along with kidneys and bone marrow can prevent heart transplant rejection, addressing a longstanding obstacle in the field. Organ rejection remains…
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A satellite launch vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andra Pradesh. | Photo Credit: File photo Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for the 100th launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, which is scheduled to take place at the end of January with the launch…
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Bhopal: People take part in ‘Rangpanchami Ger’ celebrations, in Bhopal, Saturday, March 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Questions: 1. In a person with X, stimulating one sensory pathway, like smelling petrol, evokes a response from a different pathway, like seeing a blue square. For example, people with chromesthesia, a form of X, see colours…