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The face of the “Screaming Woman” mummy, discovered in 1935 at Deir Elbahari near Luxor and dating to about 1500 BC during ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom period, is seen at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, January 18, 2023 in this handout photograph released on August 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters It is a…
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The previous two terms of the Narendra Modi government saw the launch of some major national advanced technology missions, including for supercomputing, cyber-physical systems, and quantum technologies. These were coupled with initiatives to boost private sector participation with space and geospatial policies. India became the fourth to have a spacecraft’s lander touch down successfully on…
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(From left) India’s astronaut-designates Shubhanshu Shukla, Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan, and Angad Pratap. File photo. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: On August 2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that two of the astronauts selected for its maiden human spaceflight mission, ‘Gaganyaan’, will travel to the U.S. in the first…
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Tragedies like the Wayanad landslides repeat themselves partly because their lessons are not brought to bear on our understanding of the local amplifiers of extreme events. A view of a mountain of the Western Ghats in Wayanad, Kerala, November 15, 2022. | Photo Credit: Nakkeeran Raveendran/Unsplash At no place on the earth is the climate…
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In high altitudes, despite the air being of low density, which makes the bird wings produce less lift and more difficult to remain aloft, high-altitude birds such as bar-headed geese, cranes, and bar-tailed godwits have been seen at high altitudes of over 6,000 metres. One possibility of how birds at high altitudes take to the air…
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New research documents never-seen-before shapes formed at the base of a West Antarctic ice shelf. An autonomous underwater vehicle found these features — including tear-shaped indents — exclusively in areas with higher melting rates by underlying warm ocean water. An ice shelf is a mass of glacial ice, fed from land by tributary glaciers, that floats in the sea…
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In 2021, WHO recommended two malaria vaccines — Mosquirix and R21/Matrix Since 2007, WHO has called April 15 World Malaria Day to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment to malaria prevention and control. The book Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World states that there are over 3,500 species of mosquitoes…
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The first-of-its-kind TB prevalence cross-sectional survey was carried out among individuals aged older than 15 years across Tamil Nadu from February 2021 to July 2022. Based on the survey findings, the authors of the study from the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR-NIRT), Chennai have recommended that the State TB programme should prioritise the…
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Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair (left) and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement India has shortlisted two astronaut-designates for the upcoming Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station. Indian astronauts Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair have been shortlisted to go to the U.S. to train for the upcoming…