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An illustration of the RNA called mRNA. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In a study published in the journal Clean Water on March 28, scientists reported that extracellular RNA (exRNA) from bacteria can persist in disinfected drinking water. They also found that by studying the exRNA, they could figure out what the bacteria were doing…
Jungle cats (Felis chaus) are found across diverse habitats, from grasslands and wetlands to deserts. They’re present across Asia, with large populations in India and Nepal, among others. The IUCN Red List lists the species as being of ‘least concern’. This has led to a “misconception that they are doing fine”, Kathan Bandyopadhyay, a postdoctoral…
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Water Storage Pot made up of Terracotta Clay Summers are here, and with them comes an endless thirst. We drink more water than usual and cold water feels almost magical in the heat. Quick fun fact: when you drink cold water, it absorbs heat from your body as it warms up, helping lower your core…
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A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks. | Photo Credit: The Hindu GUWAHATI A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks designed to keep buildings naturally cool, offering a solution for sustainable construction. The researchers are Bitupan Das,…
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Professor Einstein (left) tells Dr. Robert Oppenheimer about his attempts to explain matters in terms of space. Picture taken in 1949 when Dr. Oppenheimer was Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives In the late 1930s, in a small corner of Thayyur, Thrissur, a couple had…
Psychological safety is the condition underneath all the others, the ground on which everything else gets built [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The way offices work has always changed in waves, but the last three decades delivered something different — a pace of change that didn’t allow people to settle before the next disruption arrived….
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(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here .) Last week, an 11-year-old boy died in Kozhikode, Kerala due to a Shigella infection . The State Health Department said that six people had been confirmed as having…
Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. Representative image. | Photo Credit: AP Microgravity can alter sperm’s ability to navigate Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. They found…
A steroidal cocktail of chemicals in the plant both nurtures and negatively impacts monarch caterpillars. | Photo Credit: AP Canopied with vibrant little star-shaped flowers, the tropical milkweed shrub is a favourite of millions of migrating monarch butterflies in America, which lay their eggs on them, feed on their leaves and stems as caterpillars, and…
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It was early 2023. In a ground-floor laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in north Bengaluru, Ph.D candidate Nayan Chakraborty was readying to examine the results of another iteration of an experiment he had been attempting for three months. There was no reason to believe this trial, nearly his 1,000th, would be…
