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Anaemia prevalence in eight States found to be overestimated

March 23, 2024 admin

A study across eight States in India involving 4,613 participants that included adolescents (647 girls and 674 boys), adults (931 women and 927 men) and elderly (714 women and 720 men) has found that the prevalence of anaemia has been overestimated by previous surveys. While the NFHS surveys measured haemoglobin using finger prick-based capillary blood,…

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Academics warn new science papers are being generated with AI chatbots

March 22, 2024 admin

Chatbots are prone to hallucination, or a phenomenon where they present illogical or nonsensical answers as facts [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Social media users and academics are warning that more scientific papers show signs of being partially generated with the help of AI chatbots. For example, a paper published on ScienceDirect, titled ‘The three-dimensional…

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Asteroid named after Bengaluru Professor

March 22, 2024 admin

Professor Jayant Murthy, former acting director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid after Prof. Jayant Murthy who was acting director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) before his retirement in 2021. The asteroid 2005 EX296 has been designated as (215884)…

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ISRO successfully conducts ‘Pushpak’ Reusable Landing Vehicle landing experiment

March 22, 2024 admin

Pushpak making an autonomous landing on the ATR runway at Chitradurga. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the Pushpak Reusable Landing Vehicle (RLV) LEX 02 landing experiment at the Aeronautical Test Range in Chitradurga on Friday, March 22, 2024. The RLV LEX 02 landing experiment is the second…

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Colours

March 21, 2024 admin

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Colours 1 / 5 | The colour white comprises how many colours? In physics, there is no such colour as white. Rather it is a mixture of all the seven colours namely violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Next 2 / 5 | How many colours…

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Scientists find way to deliver insulin to diabetes patient exactly when it is needed

March 21, 2024 admin

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: File photo Scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have developed a new silk-based hydrogel system that mimics the pancreas, offering a potential breakthrough in insulin delivery for diabetes treatment. The innovative approach is expected to provide a more…

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Female right whales may never breed after entanglement in fishing gear: study

March 21, 2024 admin

It sounds like a crime show episode at sea: In late January 2024, federal regulators learned that a dead female North Atlantic right whale had been sighted near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The whale was towed to shore, where more than 20 U.S. and Canadian scientists converged to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy. On Feb….

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Female right whales may never breed after run-ins with fishing gear

March 20, 2024 admin

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Female right whales may never breed after run-ins with fishing gear

March 20, 2024 admin

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Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos

March 20, 2024 admin

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos. | Photo Credit: Reuters When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object’s trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. It turns out that this collision changed not…

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