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We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked. Squirt had notoriously accurate aim. As a comparative psychologist, I’m used to assaults from my experimental…
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(CAR) T-cell therapy is a form of adaptive cellular therapy in which a patient’s T cells are isolated, genetically modified and infused back in the patients body to recognise and kill cancer cells. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Freepik Doctors at AIIMS, Delhi are in the process of developing a low…
Tejas Anto Kannampuzha, a 2022 graduate in the Physics stream from the University of Hyderabad (UoH), has devised an innovative solution to combat the recurring issue of Acid Fly attacks in the university’s student hostels | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Tejas Anto Kannampuzha, a 2022 graduate in Physics stream from the University of Hyderabad (UoH),…
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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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