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Why sustainable funding matters for India’s ‘science power’ ambition | Explained

February 28, 2024 admin

The 2024 theme for National Science Day, which India celebrates every year on February 28, is “Science for Sustainable Development”. Science and technological developments are key drivers of India’s journey towards becoming a developed country by 2047. India is committed to making this progress through sustainable means, as evidenced by its commitments under the Paris…

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Pauling, the (near) perfect man for science

February 27, 2024 admin

There have been only five scientists who have won two Nobel Prizes – Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1903, 1911), American scientist Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), American physicist and electrical engineer John Bardeen (1956, 1972), British biochemist Frederick Sanger (1958, 1980), and American stereochemist Barry Sharpless (2001, 2022). Additionally, there have been two organisations…

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Newfound ‘obelisks’ join viruses, viroids as third unusual life form

February 27, 2024 admin

For nearly seven decades since their discovery in 1898, viruses were the only organisms at the boundary between the living and the non-living. Their obligate host dependence, parasitism, and small genome sizes collectively made sure they weren’t classified as ‘life’per se. Each virion is composed of a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) core that serves…

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‘10,000 genome’ project completed, says government

February 27, 2024 admin

“Announced the GenomeIndia Flagship Programme of 10,000 Genome Sequencing under #DBT, Union Ministry of Science & Technology. This will lead to genetic based remedies, besides giving a big boost to public healthcare system in the country,” Union Science Minister Jitendra Singh said in an X ost on February 27, 2024. Photo: X/@DrJitendraSingh The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) on…

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Gaganyaan astronauts | IAF fighter pilots with distinguished service

February 27, 2024 admin

February 27, 2024 07:46 pm | Updated February 28, 2024 12:34 am IST – THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (From left) Astronauts-designate Shubanshu Shukla, Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Angad Angad Pratap. | Photo Credit: PTI All four Gaganyaan astronaut-designates, whose names were announced here on Tuesday, were commissioned into the fighter stream of IAF and are test…

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ISRO’s Gaganyaan mission: PM Modi announces Indian astronaut designates

February 27, 2024 admin

February 27, 2024 12:41 pm | Updated February 28, 2024 12:13 am IST – THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Gaganyaan astronaut-designates Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap, and Wing Commander Subhanshu Shukla received ‘astronaut wings’ from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Video grab India on Tuesday announced…

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Early jacaranda bloom sparks debate about climate change in Mexicoca

February 27, 2024 admin

Jacaranda tree blooms in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico. February 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Every spring, the streets of Mexico’s capital are painted purple with the flowering of thousands of jacaranda trees. Their spectacular colours not only attract the eyes of residents and tourists but also birds, bees and butterflies that…

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Bird flu reaches mainland Antarctica for first time, scientists say

February 27, 2024 admin

A skua stands on Deception Island, which is the Caldera of an active volcano in Antarctica, February 17, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region’s huge penguin colonies. “This discovery…

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Are ‘colour molecules’ the key to a room-temperature quantum computer?

February 26, 2024 admin

A classical computer is a collection of information storage units called bits. These physical devices have two states each, denoted 0 and 1. Any computation that a computer performs is essentially the result of the manipulation of the states of bits. Similarly, a qubit is a physical system with two quantum states, and it is…

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India-specific model to give accurate gestational age of foetus

February 26, 2024 admin

Image for representational purposes only. Researchers have developed an India-specific artificial intelligence model to precisely determine the gestational age of a foetus in the second and third trimester of pregnancy. The model has been designed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad. It…

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