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A study has found that voluntary dunking of heads in water maintained at 22 degree C by dogs with limited water ingestion is the most effective method for rapid cooling after exercise. It reduces core body temperature within five minutes. Dunking of heads in water is a viable option when whole-body water immersion is not due…
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A few days ago, Sujatha Rao, former Union Secretary of the Health Ministry, quit the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System. In 2020, the Union government intensified its efforts to privatise health care in India when NITI Aayog proposed and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech that district hospitals will…
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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Samir V. Kamat with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. | Photo Credit: File photo Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Dr. Samir V Kamat said that there is an aversion to risk and intolerance of failure in India due to which people end up taking less challenging projects….
ISRO Chairman S Somanath addresses a press conference on the Chandrayaan-4 mission at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath said on Friday (September 20, 2024) that the space agency will take all precautions by carrying out a sufficient number of…
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Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source. Researchers analysed genetic material gathered from…
The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified Thursday (September 19, 2024) that the sub had malfunctioned just before the fatal dive. Appearing before a U.S. Coast Guard panel, Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the…
A handout illustration shows the newly identified Jurassic Period flying reptile, or pterosaur, called ‘Dearc sgiathanach’, whose fossil was found on a rocky beach at Scotland’s Isle of Skye, flying alongside a large meat-eating dinosaur. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a…
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One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world’s largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Antimatter The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel is pictured during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Who predicted the existence of antimatter in 1928? Albert Einstein Paul Dirac Niels Bohr Enrico…
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This artist’s concept shows a galaxy with a brilliant quasar, a very bright, distant and active supermassive black hole that is millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, at its center, seen in this undated handout picture. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite…
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