Category: Science

Science

South Korean team develops ‘Iron Man’ robot that helps paraplegics walk

December 24, 2024 admin

Kim Seung-hwan, who is himself a paraplegic and part of the Exoskeleton Laboratory team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), demonstrates the prototype of exoskeleton robot ‘WalkON Suit F1’ at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea, November 27, 2024. REUTERS/Sebin Choi | Photo Credit: REUTERS South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight…

Science

South Korean team develops ‘Iron Man’ robot that helps paraplegics walk

December 24, 2024 admin

Science

Octopuses and their relatives are a new animal welfare frontier

December 24, 2024 admin

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…

Science

AIIMS, Delhi developing low cost adaptive cellular therapy for treatment of multiple myeloma

December 23, 2024 admin

(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…

Science

UoH student’s research offers solution to acid fly problem in hostels

December 23, 2024 admin

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),…

Science

How does a speed gun work?

December 23, 2024 admin

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…

Science

How much do dark matter particles weigh?

December 23, 2024 admin

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…

Science

What is orbital docking?

December 22, 2024 admin

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

Science

Prof. Neena Gupta: ‘Not every problem will give you a eureka moment‘ National Mathematics Day

December 22, 2024 admin

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…

Science

Journal finally retracts the discredited hydroxychloroquine paper

December 21, 2024 admin

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…

Science