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The extensive use of antibiotics in health care has resulted in a rise in pathogenic bacteria and other microorganisms that are resistant to antibiotics. In the year 2021, about 1.2 million deaths worldwide were attributed to antimicrobial resistance to existing antibiotics. Surveys in Indian hospitals show that infections with drug-resistant bacteria have a 13% mortality…
Data from India’s first nationally representative heart failure registry with prospective follow-up data has found that heart failure patients in India are almost 10 years younger than their counterparts living in high-income countries. One in four heart failure patients in India die within one year of follow-up, with a wide variation in the one-year mortality rate…
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Dr V Narayanan, Chairman, ISRO. File | Photo Credit: ANI A day after ISRO successfully carried out the ignition trial of the indigenous CE20 cryogenic engine, its Chairman and Secretary of Department of Space V Narayanan on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said that the test would be advantageous to missions. The Chairman also said there…
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ISRO’s C20 cryogenic engine. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu ISRO on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said that it has successfully carried out the ignition trial of the indigenous CE20 cryogenic engine powering the upper stage of LVM3, with a multi-element igniter under vacuum conditions, which simulates the engine ignition in the vacuum condition of…
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The 37th Kerala Science Congress will begin on Saturday at Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will officially inaugurate the event at M.S. Swaminathan Hall at 10 a.m. The Chief Minister will also present prestigious awards, including the Chief Minister’s Gold Medal, the Dr. S. Vasudev Award, Science Literature Awards, and the…
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(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) The idiom “monkey see, monkey do” refers to someone copying an action without putting much thought into it. It literally lays the blame at a monkey’s feet, but a new…
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A cat looks through the dusty screen door of a house undamaged by the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Q: How many female cats were trained for the space flight that included Félicette? Félicette was the first cat to travel to space, launching on…
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A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Bombay have come up with a new technique that can measure the rate of iron coating degradation. This discovery claims to hold the potential of benefiting the steel industry. Metals corrode with time, and some metals corrode more than others, like iron rusts…
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Union Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI India will launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission to bring back samples of moon rocks to the Earth in 2027, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Chandrayaan-4 will involve at least two separate launches of the heavylift LVM-3…
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Kashmiri farmer and saffron producer Ghulam Mohammad Mir and his family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at his residence in Kashmir’s Pampore October 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tucked in a valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas of the Indian Kashmir region is the town of Pampore, famed for its farms that grow the…
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