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‘Our world is built on basic science, and part of basic science is rationality’  

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‘Our world is built on basic science, and part of basic science is rationality’  

Not many people have the distinction of having a cosmic body named after them. Jayant Murthy, a senior professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, is one of them. Murthy just had an asteroid named after him by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to mark his contributions to astronomy. The asteroid 2005 EX296,…

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How subpar treatment options allow sickle cell disease to persist | Explained

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How subpar treatment options allow sickle cell disease to persist | Explained

When five-year-old Suraj was debilitated with a persistent fever, his family took him to the district hospital in Nuapada in western Odisha. The hospital directed them to the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Burla in Sambalpur, around 250 km from their village. At the Institute, Suraj underwent a diagnostic test…

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Sensing China threat, India joins race to mine new sea patch

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Sensing China threat, India joins race to mine new sea patch

 The Matsya 6000 is a deep-sea exploration vehicle being designed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology in Chennai.  | Photo Credit: RAVINDRAN R Earlier this month, India applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISBA), Jamaica, for rights to explore two vast tracts in the Indian Ocean seabed that aren’t part of its jurisdiction. The…

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Astronomers looking for space gas accidentally find 49 new galaxies

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Astronomers looking for space gas accidentally find 49 new galaxies

Spiral galaxy NGC 1512, located 30 million light-years away from Earth, is seen in an undated image from the James Webb Space Telescope. | Photo Credit: Reuters Stars are born from huge clouds of mostly hydrogen gas floating in space. Astronomers like me study this gas because it helps us understand how stars and galaxies…

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Solar Electric Vehicle Championship from March 27-31 in Manipal

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Solar Electric Vehicle Championship from March 27-31 in Manipal

A file photo of a student at an Solar Electric Vehicle Championship. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), a constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, will organise Solar Electric Vehicle Championship (SEVC) 2024, in collaboration with Coimbatore Society of Racing Minds, from March 27 t0 31 in Manipal. The…

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Fighting every wildfire makes bigger fires more extreme, study says

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Fighting every wildfire makes bigger fires more extreme, study says

A soldier works to contain wildfires in Nogales, in the High Mountains area of Veracruz state, Mexico, Monday, March 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires…

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50,000-year-old magnetic fossils found in the Bay of Bengal

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50,000-year-old magnetic fossils found in the Bay of Bengal

Needle, spindle, bullet and spearhead shape-magnetofossils. | Photo Credit: Kadam, N et al/Nature In the depths of the Bay of Bengal, scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old sediment — a giant magnetofossil and one of the youngest to be found yet.  What are magentofossils? Magnetofossils are the fossilised remains of magnetic particles created by magnetotactic bacteria, also…

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Goa scientists find 50,000-year-old magnetic fossils in Bay of Bengal

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Goa scientists find 50,000-year-old magnetic fossils in Bay of Bengal

Needle, spindle, bullet and spearhead shape-magnetofossils. | Photo Credit: Kadam, N et al/Nature In the depths of the Bay of Bengal, scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old sediment — a giant magnetofossil and one of the youngest to be found yet.  What are magentofossils? Magnetofossils are the fossilised remains of magnetic particles created by magnetotactic bacteria, also…

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ISRO’s POEM-3 mission accomplishes zero orbital debris mission

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ISRO’s POEM-3 mission accomplishes zero orbital debris mission

The milestone was achieved on March 21, 2024, the ISRO said. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on March 25 said that it has achieved another milestone as the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module-3 (POEM-3) met its fiery end through a re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.   The ISRO said that milestone…

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Why do so many contemporary vaccines have low durability? | Explained

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Why do so many contemporary vaccines have low durability? | Explained

Once an individual has received a measles jab, they are usually considered protected against measles disease for their entire life. The measles vaccine is one of the most potent vaccines in our armamentarium today. But this is not the case with most other vaccines. One needs to take several boosters for a long protection. Why…

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