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Horseshoe crabs, living fossils of the sea, draw endangered species petition

February 13, 2024 admin

Atlantic Horseshoe crabs in a tidal pool along Pickering Beach, a national horseshoe crab sanctuary near Little Creek, Delaware, May 20, 2008. | Photo Credit: Reuters Environmental groups on Monday petitioned the U.S. government seeking endangered species protection for the American horseshoe crab, a “living fossil” under threat from commercial harvests for bait and biomedical use as well as from habitat…

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The untapped potential of stem cells in menstrual blood

February 12, 2024 admin

Roughly 20 years ago, a biologist named Caroline Gargett went in search of some remarkable cells in tissue that had been removed during hysterectomy surgeries. The cells came from the endometrium, which lines the inside of the uterus. When Dr. Gargett cultured the cells in a petri dish, they looked like round clumps surrounded by…

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Watch | Somnath S. on ‘Transformative Leadership in ISRO’

February 12, 2024 admin

Watch | Somnath S. on ‘Transformative Leadership in ISRO’ Think of a typical day involving a rocket launch, and one is sure to imagine a control room where chaos reigns supreme, and the people involved in the launch, moving about frenziedly. Somnath S, chairman, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), debunked this myth, at The…

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India’s ambitious plans on space station on track, says Chandrayaan-3 project director

February 10, 2024 admin

A file photo of Chandrayaan-3 Project Director P. Veeramuthuvel. | Photo Credit: Moorthy. G India’s ambitious plans to have its own space station by 2035 and have an Indian astronaut on the moon by 2040 are progressing on track, P Veeramuthuvel, Project Director of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, said on February 10. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

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Ohsumi, Japan’s first successful satellite

February 10, 2024 admin

There’s no doubt that wars create a lot of destruction. It’s been the case throughout recorded history. Wars, however, are also often accompanied by advances at break-neck speed. The fields of science and technology are usually beneficiaries as the advances made without budgetary constraints often contribute to military use that are crucial during the war….

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What likely caused the extreme ice-age more than 700 million years ago?

February 10, 2024 admin

Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth’s history, more than 700 million years ago. The researchers have proposed that all-time low volcanic carbon dioxide emissions triggered the 57 million year-long global ‘Sturtian’ ice age. The extended ice age stretched from 717 to 660…

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Serum’s HPV vaccine non-inferior to Gardasil: study

February 10, 2024 admin

Cervavac HPV vaccine was found to be safe and non-inferior to Merk’s Gardasil vaccine A phase-2/3 trial of Serum Institute of India’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervavac conducted at 12 tertiary care hospitals across India in girls and boys aged 9-14 years has found the vaccine to be safe and non-inferior to a comparator vaccine…

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Probability of survival decreases with increased duration of CPR

February 10, 2024 admin

A new study published in the journal The BMJ Open has found that a person’s chance of surviving while receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest in a hospital declines rapidly from 22% after one minute to less than 1% after 39 minutes. Similarly, the likelihood of leaving the hospital with no major brain damage declines from…

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India set to transition to hyperlocal extreme weather forecasting

February 10, 2024 admin

Weather forecasting plays a pivotal role in the country’s functioning. Accurately predicting rain, cyclones, heatwaves and drought are critical to inform decision making on disaster management. In India the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) is the principal government agency in all matters relating to meteorology and it specialises in the incredibly complex science of predicting weather…

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Global warming’s patterns are more important than its levels | Explained

February 10, 2024 admin

Many warming records were broken in 2023 along with climate disasters such as wildfires, cyclones, droughts, and floods. In this time, the focus of the public narrative – often with the participation of scientists – has often been on whether we crossed the ‘magical’ warming threshold of 1.5 degrees C. The best estimates, derived from…

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