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The world of today is a world in motion. People constantly want to get somewhere. The heavens are filling up with satellites, our skies with airplanes and rockets, our seas with ships and submarines, and our land with cars, bikes, and trains. Humans have developed laws, rules, technologies, and subsequently entire industries to make sure…
A Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy NGC2985. The evidence for dark matter emerged in the 1970s when astronomers found an unusual pattern in the rate at which stars in a galaxy rotated the farther they were from the centre. | Photo Credit: Judy Schmidt/NASA Dark matter is an enigmatic invisible substance supplying five-sixths…
If the SpaDeX test is successful, India will become the fourth country in the world to have a space programme capable of docking in space Source link
Gupta won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2019, the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2021, and the DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize in 2021. | Photo Credit: Infosys Science Foundation On the way to a conference dinner in Bengaluru in 2014, Neena Gupta, then a postdoctoral student, was discussing a fundamental problem in algebraic…
The authors claimed that hydroxychloroquine significantly reduced the SARS-CoV-2 viral load More than four-and-a-half years after the highly questionable “study” by a French researcher Didier Raoult and others claiming that hydroxychloroquine monotherapy and hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin was “significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance in COVID-19 patients” was published on March 20, 2020, the…
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A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains, is a common sight. But a new study provides the first evidence that California ground squirrels also hunt, kill and eat voles. Researchers have for the first time chronicled widespread carnivorous behaviour among squirrels. The study fundamentally changes our understanding of ground squirrels. It suggests that what…
Evidence to support an older age for the formation of the Moon, around 4.51 billion years ago, as per a paper published in the journal Nature. This new analysis suggests that a ‘remelting’ of the Moon’s surface around 4.35 billion years ago may have masked a far older history. The Moon is thought to have been formed through…
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Since the first case of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in a farm worker in Texas was reported in April this year, the number of confirmed H5N1 cases in humans as of December 20 has shot up to 64 in the U.S., with 34 cases in California alone. Yet, despite H5N1’s high fatality of 52% since 2003,…
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The story so far: On December 4, Google DeepMind unveiled GenCast, an artificial intelligence (AI) model the company said could forecast the weather better than most existing tools as well as more days in advance. Details of the model were published in a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature. How do we forecast weather? “Weather…
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S. Unnikrishnan Nair, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, beside the CARE module that was recovered after the 2014 mission and a scale model of the human-rated LVM3 launch vehicle. Photo: Special Arrangement Gaganyaan-G1, the first of three un-crewed test missions that will lead up to India’s maiden human spaceflight, is designed to mimic – end…