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Umesh Prasad

Editor, Scientific European (SCIEU)

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC): NASA tests Laser

Radio frequency based deep space communication faces constraints due to low bandwidth and increasing need of high data transmission rates. Laser or optical based...

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Homo sapiens spread into cold steppes in northern Europe 45,000 years ago

Homo sapiens or the modern human evolved around 200,000 years ago in East Africa near modern-day Ethiopia. They lived in Africa for a long...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

LISA Mission: Space-based Gravitational Wave detector gets ESA’s go ahead

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission has received the go ahead of European Space Agency (ESA). This paves the way for developing the...

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ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

3D Bioprinting Assembles Functional Human Brain Tissue for The First Time

Scientists have developed a 3D bioprinting platform that assembles functional human neural tissues. The progenitor cells in the printed tissues grow to form neural...

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AGRICULTURE & FOOD

New Colours of ‘Blue Cheese’

The fungus Penicillium roqueforti is used in the production of blue-veined cheese. The exact mechanism behind the unique blue-green colour of the cheese was...

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ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

The First Website in the world

The first website in the world was/is http://info.cern.ch/ This was conceived and developed at European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva by Timothy Berners-Lee, (better...

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PHYSICS

CERN celebrates 70 years of Scientific Journey in Physics

CERN’s seven decades of scientific journey has been marked by milestones like "discovery of fundamental particles W boson and Z boson responsible for weak...

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ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Lithium Battery for Electric Vehicles (EVs): Separators with coatings of Silica Nanoparticles enhance Safety

Lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) face safety and stability issues due to overheating of separators, short circuits and reduced efficiency. With an aim...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

Have Astronomers discovered the first “Pulsar – Black hole” binary system?

Astronomers have recently reported detection of such a compact object of about 2.35 solar masses in the globular cluster NGC 1851 in our home...

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AGRICULTURE & FOOD

Soil Microbial Fuel Cells (SMFCs): The New Design Could Benefit Environment and Farmers

The Soil Microbial Fuel Cells (SMFCs) use naturally occurring bacteria in the soil to generate electricity. As a long-term, decentralised source of renewable power,...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

The Oldest Black hole from the Early Universe Challenges the Model of Black hole Formation

Astronomers have detected the oldest (and the most distant) black hole from the early universe which dates from 400 million years after the big...

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BIOLOGY

Paride: A novel Virus (Bacteriophage) that fights Antibiotic-tolerant Dormant bacteria

Bacterial dormancy is survival strategy in response to stressful exposure to antibiotics taken by a patient for treatment. The dormant cells become tolerant to...

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ENVIRONMENT

Bottled water contains about 250k Plastic particles per litre, 90% are Nanoplastics

A recent study on plastic pollution beyond the micron level has unambiguously detected and identified nanoplastics in real-life samples of bottled water. It was...

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ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Is ‘Nuclear Battery’ coming of age?

Betavolt Technology, a Beijing based company has announced miniaturization of nuclear battery using Ni-63 radioisotope and diamond semiconductor (fourth generation semiconductor) module. Nuclear battery...

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BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE

Why It Is Important to Be Tenacious?

Tenacity is an important success factor. Anterior mid-cingulate cortex (aMCC) of the brain contributes in being tenacious and has a role in successful aging....

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

The Fast Radio Burst, FRB 20220610A originated from a novel source

Fast Radio Burst FRB 20220610A, the most powerful radio burst ever observed was detected on 10 June 2022. It had originated from a source...

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MEDICINE

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): a novel antibiotic Zosurabalpin (RG6006) shows promise in pre-clinical trials

Antibiotic resistance particularly by Gram-negative bacteria has nearly created a crisis like situation. The novel antibiotic Zosurabalpin (RG6006) shows promises. It has been found to...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

‘Gateway’ Lunar Space Station of ‘Artemis Mission’: UAE to provide an Airlock

UAE’s MBR Space Centre has collaborated with NASA to provide an airlock for the first lunar space station Gateway that will orbit the Moon...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

Brown Dwarfs (BDs): James Webb Telescope Identifies Smallest Object formed in a Star-like manner

Stars have a life cycle spanning a few million to trillions of years. They are born, undergo changes with the passage of time and...

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MEDICINE

Mindfulness meditation (MM) reduces Patient anxiety in Dental implant surgery

Mindfulness meditation (MM) can be an effective sedative technique for dental implant operation conducted under local anaesthesia. Dental implant surgery lasts for 1-2 hours. Patients...

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ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

XPoSat : ISRO launches World’s Second ‘X-ray Polarimetry Space Observatory’

ISRO has successfully launched the satellite XPoSat which is world’s second ‘X-ray Polarimetry Space Observatory’. This will carry out research in space-based polarisation measurements...

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HEALTH

Prions: Risk of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or Zombie deer disease

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), first detected in 1996 in the United Kingdom, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow’ disease) and Zombie deer disease or Chronic Wasting Disease...

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ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Conduct Research in Chemistry Autonomously

Scientists have successfully integrated latest AI tools (e.g. GPT-4) with automation to develop ‘systems’ capable of autonomously designing, planning and performing complex chemical experiments....

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PHYSICS

‘Fusion Ignition’ demonstrated fourth time at Lawrence Laboratory

‘Fusion Ignition’ achieved first in December 2022 has been demonstrated another three times to date at National Ignition Facility (NIF) of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...

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COVID-19

COVID-19: JN.1 sub-variant has higher transmissibility and immune escape ability

Spike mutation (S: L455S) is hallmark mutation of JN.1 sub-variant which significantly enhances its immune evasion capability enabling it to effectively evade Class 1...

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