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BlueWalker 3 satellite outshines most stars in the night sky

October 4, 2023 admin

Trails in the night sky left by the BlueWalker 3 satellite. In the foreground is a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona. | Photo Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/IAU/SKAO/NSF/AURA/R. An international team of scientists, including those from Imperial College London, have published a paper in Nature journal, detailing the impact of the prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite on…

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‘Kerala yet to receive Linezolid, Cycloserine MDR-TB drugs’

October 3, 2023 admin

On October 1, the Health Ministry issued a press release for the second time in five days stating that “media reports claiming shortage of anti-TB medicines are false, motivated and misleading”. Since June this year, there has been a stockout of Linezolid, Clofazimine, and Cycloserine, three important medicines used for treating MDR-TB. “The CTD [Central…

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The trouble with a Nobel for mRNA COVID vaccines

October 3, 2023 admin

At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm | Photo Credit: AFP The 2023 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for developing the mRNA vaccine technology that became the foundation for history’s fastest vaccine development programme during the COVID-19 pandemic. The prizes acknowledge work that has created benefits…

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2023 Nobel Prize in Physics: Seeing electrons through brief pulses of light | Explained

October 3, 2023 admin

This combo of pictures taken Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, shows from left, French scientist Pierre Agostini posing in his apartment in Paris, Scientist Ferenc Krausz speaking during a presentation at the Max-Plank-Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich, and French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier talking to journalists at Lund University, Sweden. The three scientists won the Nobel…

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Three scientists win for research on electrons in flashes of light

October 3, 2023 admin

The Nobel Prizes for 2023 in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier | Photo Credit: Nobelprize.org The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electro dynamics in…

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‘Today, mathematics is not only necessary in daily life but pervasive’

October 3, 2023 admin

Apoorva Khare is an associate professor of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is one of the winners of the recently announced 2022 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes (now remodelled as the Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award). He spoke to Mohan R., a mathematician at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, for The Hindu. The…

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Medicine Nobel for the technology that turned the pandemic

October 2, 2023 admin

Penn Medicine scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA vaccines. | Photo Credit: Peggy Peterson/Penn Medicine, Reuters The 2023 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American physician-scientist…

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Drew Weissman, Nobel-winning mRNA pioneer

October 2, 2023 admin

Dr. Drew Weissman arrives for the Ninth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Drew Weissman’s decades of research into mRNA technology paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines, finally earning a Nobel prize for the physician-scientist. The 64-year-old University of…

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The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine

October 2, 2023 admin

Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko attends the Semmelweis Ignac Award in Budapest, Hungary, May 25, 2021. Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Karikó is a professor at…

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Katalin Kariko, scientific maverick who paved way for mRNA vaccines

October 2, 2023 admin

Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko poses for a photo in Budapest, Hungary, May 27, 2021. Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Karikó is a professor at Sagan’s…

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