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Breakthrough Prizes 2024 winners include innovative cancer treatment

September 19, 2023 admin

When Michel Sadelain began his decades-long quest to genetically modify immune cells to fight cancer, his peers dismissed his ideas as absurd and even his mother grew concerned for his career. On Thursday, the French and Canadian scientist was announced as a winner of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for his pioneering work in CAR T-cell…

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Risky geoengineering should be banned, climate group says

September 19, 2023 admin

A facility for capturing CO2 from air of Swiss Climeworks AG is placed on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland July 18, 2017. Controversial technologies intended to offset the effects of atmospheric carbon should banned until properly assessed, a group of politicians and scientists have warned. | Photo Credit: Reuters Controversial…

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Risky geoengineering should be banned, climate group says

September 19, 2023 admin

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Aditya-L1 embarks on 110-day journey to L1 point

September 18, 2023 admin

India’s first space-based observatory to study the Sun, Aditya-L1, is headed to the Lagrangian 1 (L1) point as ISRO carried out the Trans-Lagrangian 1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvre in the early hours of September 19. The TL1I manoeuvre marks the beginning of Aditya-L1’s 110-day journey towards the L1 point which lies between the Sun-Earth line. L1…

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Science This Week | CSIR announces Bhatnagar prize winners, NASA names chief of UFO research and more

September 17, 2023 admin

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research announced the winners of the Bhatnagar Prize 2022 after a year’s delay while Kerala reports another outbreak of Nipah virus. Find all the latest news, discoveries and findings that happened in the field of science this week. NASA names chief of UFO research NASA has named a new…

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NASA names chief of UFO research; panel sees no alien evidence

September 17, 2023 admin

NASA has said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP. | Photo Credit: AP NASA on Thursday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP, while the U.S. space agency’s chief said an…

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Centre announces winners of Bhatnagar Prize after a year’s delay

September 11, 2023 admin

CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) ongoing ‘One Week One Lab’ programme in Hyderabad on Friday, September 08, 2023. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The winners of the 2022 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize awarded for Science and Technology were announced on Spetember 11, 2023, a year after the prize was scrapped by the Centre unexpectedly. The…

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Black hole is observed snacking on sun-like star, bite by bite

September 9, 2023 admin

The interaction between a supermassive black hole in a galaxy named 2MASX J02301709+2836050 and a star orbiting it is seen in this image captured by the Pan-STARRS telescope, in Hawaii, U.S., in an undated handout image provided by NASA. | Photo Credit: Reuters Black holes, celestial objects known for their gluttony, usually eat stars unlucky…

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Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered

September 8, 2023 admin

This handout photograph released by the CEA on September 7, 2023, shows a 3D representation of the galaxy “Bubble”, coloured in brown. The image shows the position of the Milky Way, with a small white dot located outside the bubble on the right, in a white cloud. The blue wisps represent the “cosmic web”, the…

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Lab-grown human ‘embryo’ created without eggs or sperm

September 8, 2023 admin

PhD student, Mehmet Yunus Comar, looks at a model of an early-stage human embryo, created by Israeli scientists without using an egg, sperm or womb, offering a glimpse into the first weeks of embryonic development, in a laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel September 7, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists…

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