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Path taken by the homing robot and a magnified view of the robot. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Researchers at IIT Bombay are using robots to understand how animals find their way back home from unfamiliar places, a skill called homing. Nitin Kumar, assistant professor at the Department of Physics at IIT Bombay, explained, “The…
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An mpox patient is injected with intravenous treatment at the Kavumu hospital, 30 km north of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on August 24, 2024 | Photo Credit: AFP The World Health Organization on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, said droplets were a minor route of transmission for mpox (formerly known as monkey pox)…
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A view shows the Lego logo and some bricks inside their headquarters in Billund, Denmark, April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Toymaker Lego said on Wednesday (August 28, 2024) it was on track to replace the fossil fuels used in making its signature bricks with more expensive renewable and recycled plastic by 2032 after…
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Employees sew clothes at the Estee garment factory in Tirupur, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu June 19, 2013. With knitwear exports of over $2 billion a year, India’s garment manufacturing hub Tirupur has earned the nickname “Dollar City,” but its allure for price-conscious global retailers obsessed by discounts of as little as…
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SpaceX announced it was pushing back the launch plans “due to unfavorable weather forecasted in Dragon’s splashdown areas off the coast of Florida”. | Photo Credit: Reuters SpaceX postponed once more its attempt at launching a daring orbital expedition featuring an all-civilian crew that is aiming to carry out the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens…
This image provided by NASA, shows a selfie of their Perseverance Mars rover, on July 23, 2024. The image is made up of 62 individual images that were stitched together. Photo: NASA via AP NASA’s Perseverance rover is tackling a steep new challenge on Mars. The six-wheeled rover has spent the last 3 1/2 years…
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On August 7, Vinesh Phogat was set to become the first Indian woman to compete in a wrestling finals at the Olympics. At the 2024 games in Paris, she had defeated defending Olympic champion Yui Sasaki (Japan) and European and Pan-American champions Oksana Livach (Ukraine) and Yusneylis Guzman (Cuba) in that order, guaranteeing herself at…
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Personal care products (PCP) like face washes and shower gels in India contain a significant amount of harmful microplastics, new research has revealed. According to a study published in the Emerging Contaminants journal and led by Riya K. Alex, a third-year Ph.D Scholar at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, polyethylene (or polythene, PE)…
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File photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: REUTERS India has developed its own home-grown RT-PCR testing kit for Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). The IMDX Monkeypox Detection RT-PCR Assay, developed by healthcare services company Siemens Healthineers, has received manufacturing approval from the Central Protection Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). On August 14,…
Anand Kumar, managing director, Indian Immunologicals Limited, at the company’s facility in Hyderabad | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Hyderabad-headquartered vaccine manufacturer Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL), in partnership with Griffith University, Australia has developed a needle-free intra-nasal booster vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, a press release from the company stated. The company said the live-attenuated booster has been…