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Umesh Prasad

Science journalist | Founder editor, Scientific European magazine

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

SpaceX Crew-9 Return to Earth with Astronauts of Boeing Starliner

SpaceX Crew-9, the nineth crew transportation flight from International Space Station (ISS) under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) provided by the private company SpaceX has...

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MEDICINE

Titanium Device as a Permanent Replacement for a Human Heart

Use of “BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart”, a titanium metal device has enabled the longest successful bridge to heart transplant lasting over three months. The...

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MEDICINE

Hidden consciousness, Sleep spindles and Recovery in Comatose Patients

Coma is a deep unconsciousness state associated with brain failure. Comatose patients are behaviourally unresponsive. These disorders of consciousness are usually transitory but may...

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BIOLOGY

How Male Octopus Avoid Being Cannibalised by Female

Researchers have discovered that some male blue-lined octopuses have evolved a novel defence mechanism to avoid being cannibalised by the hungry females during reproduction....

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

How Far Human Civilisation is Detectable in Space

Earth’s most detectable techno-signatures are the planetary radar transmissions from the erstwhile Arecibo Observatory. The Arecibo message could be detected up to about 12,000...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

New Observation of Colourful Twilight Clouds on Mars

Curiosity rover has captured new images of colourful twilight clouds in the atmosphere of Mars. Called iridescence, this phenomenon is caused due to scattering of light...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

Early Solar System had Widespread Ingredients for Life

The asteroid Bennu is an ancient carbonaceous asteroid that has rocks and dusts from the birth of the solar system. It was thought that...

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PHYSICS

Fusion Energy: EAST Tokamak in China achieves Key Milestone

Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China has successfully maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds breaking its own earlier record of...

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MEDICINE

Pandemic Potential of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) Outbreaks

There are reports of outbreaks of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection in many parts of the world. In the backdrop of recent COVID-19 pandemic, hMPV...

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BIOLOGY

Multiple Dinosaur Trackways Discovered in Oxfordshire

Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

“Parker Solar Probe” Survives Closest Encounter to Sun

Parker solar probe has sent signal to Earth today on 27 December 2024 confirming its safety following its closest approach to Sun on 24...

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AGRICULTURE & FOOD

“Horizontal Gene Transfers” between fungi led to Outbreaks of “Coffee Wilt Disease”

Fusarium xylarioides, a soil-borne fungus causes “Coffee wilt disease” that has a history of causing significant damages to coffee crops. There were outbreaks of...

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MEDICINE

Levofloxacin for preventive treatment of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB)

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) affects half a million people each year. Levofloxacin is advised for preventive treatment based on observational data, however evidence...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

PROBA-3: the first ever “Precision formation flying” Mission

ESA’s PROBA-3 mission, which lifted off on ISRO’s PSLV-XL rocket on 5 December 2024, is a “solar eclipse-making" two satellite formation of occulter and...

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MEDICINE

Genital Herpes Infection Affects Over 800 million people

A recent study has estimated disease frequency of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections and genital ulcer disease (GUD). The estimates suggest that about 846...

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MEDICINE

Urine Test for Early Detection of Lung Cancer

Researchers have developed a urine test that can detect lung cancer at an early stage using a novel approach. It uses an injectable protein...

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PHYSICS

Progress in Antiproton Transportation

Big Bang produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other leaving behind an empty universe. However, matter survived and...

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

When did Alphabetic Writing Start?

One of key milestones in the story of human civilisation is development of a system of writing based on symbols representing sounds of a...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

James Webb (JWST) redefines appearance of Sombrero galaxy (Messier 104)

In the new mid-infrared image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the Sombrero galaxy (technically known as Messier 104 or M104 galaxy) appears...

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ENVIRONMENT

45 Years of Climate Conferences

From first World Climate Conference in 1979 to COP29 in 2024, the journey of Climate Conferences has been a source of hope. While the...

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MEDICINE

Robotic Surgery: First Fully Robotic Double Lung Transplant Performed

On October 22, 2024, a surgical team performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant on a 57-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

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ENVIRONMENT

Climate Change Mitigation: Planting Trees in Artic Worsens Global Warming

Forest restoration and tree plantation is a well-established strategy for mitigation of climate change. However, use of this approach in arctic worsens warming and...

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Ancient DNA rebuts traditional interpretation of Pompeii

Genetic study based on ancient DNA extracted from the skeletal remains embedded in the Pompeii plaster casts of the victims of volcanic eruption of...

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MEDICINE

Asciminib (Scemblix) for Newly Diagnosed Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Asciminib (Scemblix) has been approved for adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (Ph+ CML) in chronic phase (CP). The accelerated approval...

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PHYSICS

Particle colliders for study of “Very early universe”: Muon collider demonstrated

Particle accelerators are used as research tools for the study of very early universe. Hadron colliders (particularly CERN’s Large Hadron Collider LHC) and electron-positron...

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