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Administering ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. Statins are prescribed to people with a high risk of cardiovascular disease. They work by blocking the activity of an enzyme involved in the metabolic pathway that…
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A bottle of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.’s atorvastatin calcium tablets arranged for a photograph, February 20, 2014. | Photo Credit: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Administering ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. (For top health news of the…
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Tropical cyclones are powerful and destructive weather systems that form over warm tropical ocean basins. where sea surface temperatures are above 26.5 degree C. These storms are characterised by strong winds, heavy precipitation and storm surges and can cause significant damage to coastal communities and infrastructure. Climatologically, tropical cyclones form mainly in the North Atlantic,…
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Questions: 1. In 2000, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) incorporated a feature in the then 500- and 1,000-rupee notes. On the obverse of each note, the note’s numerical value was printed such that, when the note was flat, the numbers were green but blue when observed from an angle. Name the ink used to…
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The study found that lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the last 40 years. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Pexels.com You’re not just getting older. Song lyrics really are becoming simpler and more repetitive, according to a study published on Thursday. Lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the…
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A bottle of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.’s atorvastatin calcium tablets arranged for a photograph, February 20, 2014. | Photo Credit: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Administering ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. (For top health news of the…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Frogs 1 / 5 | Which species of frog holds the title for being the world’s largest, growing up to 15 inches in length and weighing up to 7 pounds? Cuban tree toad Goliath frog Golden poison frog Wood frog The world’s largest frog is the goliath frog…
Daily quiz | On asteroid names Professor Jayant Murthy, former acting director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | In the inner region of the asteroid belt lies an asteroid about 10 km wide, discovered by astronomer Martin Watt in 1982. It is an extremely slow rotator with a…
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the centre of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a…
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Cosmologist and astrophysicist Royal Martin Rees at the Commonwealth Science Conference in Bengaluru on November 26, 2014. Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash/The Hindu | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash/The Hindu Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as effectively was a waste of public money, and…
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