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Antibiotic resistance fuels 87% of India’s typhoid economic burden: Study

March 25, 2026 admin

The authors said the findings provide key evidence to support the introduction of the typhoid conjugate vaccine in the national immunisation schedule, which is under consideration, the authors said |Image used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: Hailshadow Antibiotic-resistant typhoid infections accounted for at least 87% of India’s disease-related economic burden in 2023, according…

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What is ‘The Wow!’ signal?

March 25, 2026 admin

What is “The Wow!” signal? | Photo Credit: Unsplash Images If you are a distinguished member of the “I think about extraterrestrial life all the time!” fraternity and don’t know about ‘The Wow!” signal, then you have some catching up to do. E.T Evolved from the ideas of the ‘alien’, the SETI or Search for…

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West Asia war: how finding oil changed the Persian Gulf’s ecology

March 25, 2026 admin

Military ships and oil tankers dominate how we imagine the Persian Gulf today. Yet beyond this familiar imagery of geopolitics and petroleum lies a mosaic of vulnerable ecosystems. It wasn’t always this way. Just six decades ago, these waters were busy not with warships but fishing boats, and the glittering megacities that now line the…

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Scientists at CERN took some antiprotons out for a spin in a never-tried-before test drive

March 24, 2026 admin

Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success. If this so-called antimatter came into contact with actual matter, even for a fraction of an instant, it would have been annihilated in a quick…

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How BioPharma SHAKTI can transform biologics with non-animal models

March 24, 2026 admin

In 2006, London woke up to a tragedy. Six healthy men involved in a phase I clinical trial of theralizumab, a monoclonal antibody (mAb) designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis, developed multiple organ failure. The antibody triggered an intense immune reaction that the researchers didn’t observe in rhesus monkeys in preclinical tests because their immune cells…

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Ahead of Chandrayaan-4, IIT and PRL team decodes moon’s titanium-rich rocks

March 24, 2026 admin

The moon’s surface is covered by ancient lava flows that are often different from those found on the earth. While volcanic rocks on the earth rarely contain more than 2% titanium dioxide (TiO2), some lunar basalts — common volcanic rocks — carry up to 18%, a fact that planetary scientists have struggled to explain for…

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Moon was formed around 4.51 billion years ago: study

March 24, 2026 admin

Evidence to support an older age for the formation of the Moon, around 4.51 billion years ago, as per a paper published in the journal Nature. This new analysis suggests that a ‘remelting’ of the Moon’s surface around 4.35 billion years ago may have masked a far older history. The Moon is thought to have been formed through…

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Biotech industry driving both human and animal nutrition: experts

March 23, 2026 admin

The webinar was jointly organised by the Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, and The Hindu as part of the series titled “Biotechnology: Role in Industry 5.0 — Sustainable Future Pathways”. Biotechnology graduates are the architects of the next animal science revolution in the country, experts said at a webinar on “Biotech Careers: Food and Nutrition”…

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Heart disease kills 28.6 lakh Indians every year and yet, treatment is uneven and erratic

March 23, 2026 admin

On a cold February morning, Jassuram Khanna, a farmer from Sujau village in Chakrata in Uttarakhand, felt a tightness in his chest on his way to the market. After waiting a few minutes, he called his son Suresh to come and take him to the doctor. They hired a private car and went to the…

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How do we know climate science is credible?

March 23, 2026 admin

On March 10, a journal called Science of Climate Change published a paper calling into question the foundations of climate change. The paper concluded that after accounting for some sources of uncertainty in the climate data, the ‘correct’ changes in the oceans’ heat content and Earth’s energy imbalance are practically zero. In other words, the…

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