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Public Health

Rare, deadly Nipah virus: What are the symptoms?

The Nipah virus has once again broken out in Kerala. Those who fall ill have a low chance of survival.
Deutsche Welle
Space

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 success is only the beginning

India’s historic soft-landing on the moon opens new doors to lunar exploration and scientific discovery.
T.S. Subramanian
Archaeology

Why you owe your life to a handful of early humans

Genetic analyses suggest nearly all our ancestors died in a “dramatic event” 9,00,000 years ago. Only 1,280 survived. And a bit of them is in you.
Deutsche Welle

Karnataka’s fact-checking initiative: Will it shield democracy or stifle free speech?

The government’s intentions may be aimed at curbing fake news, but the move could potentially grant the state the authority to dictate the truth.
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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Schoolchildren celebrate the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in a school in Guwahati on August 23, 2023. India has landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.

Chandrayaan-3 marks India’s emergence as a space power

The successful moon landing makes India the fourth country to achieve the feat.
Deutsche Welle
Dark energy is the unknown mechanism behind the ever-accelerating expansion of the universe.   

Explained: What on Earth is dark energy?

Despite the leaps and bounds science has made over the course of time, there is still a lot we do not know about how everything fits together.
Deutsche Welle
Ötzi was discovered in the Alps, preserved in ice, more than 5,000 years after his death

Ötzi the Iceman was darker-skinned, balder than suspected

The 5,000 year old mummy was mostly descended from farmers who lived in present-day Turkey, German scientists say.
Deutsche Welle
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory in Mexico.

How a photodetector will diagnose urinary infections faster

A fast and accurate way to diagnose urinary tract infections, a puzzling discovery about the sun, and more in this edition of Science Notebook.
R. Ramachandran
The GenOns Cheswick Power Station, which still burns coal to produce 637 megawatts of electricity for the region about 15 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cheswick, Pennsylvania.

Are we headed into climate hell? Is IPCC the one to save us?

Questions arise about the IPCC’s role in guiding us toward a sustainable future amid growing climate change concerns.
Raghu Murtugudde
Marc Franke has been cured of both leukemia and HIV, his doctors say.   

Cured of HIV, ‘Dusseldorf patient’ makes history

A 54-year-old man from Germany has been cured of HIV after years of treatment. In this interview he talks about his long journey to recovery.
Deutsche Welle
Gulls gather around horseshoe crabs spawning at Reeds Beach in Cape May Court. The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines. But conservationists worry the new approach still doesn’t go far enough in protecting horseshoe crabs that are a food for a declining bird species.

Blue blood from horseshoe crabs: Valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines.
AP
Scientists are aware that students love to hear science directly from scientists, but communicating science is no trivial thing. Seen here an instructor with a student during a demonstration before the telecast of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 mission at Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) in Kolkata on July 14, 2023

How science academies can enhance scientific temper in India

They can enhance public understanding of science through effective communication, engagement with the public and media, promoting research integrity.
Partha P. Majumder
Rashmi Gupta (centre) of the Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Meet the women scientists defying harsh winters to power India’s Antarctic programme

India’s Antarctica programme, initiated in 1981 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, now boasts a growing list of nearly 80 women researchers and doctors.
Pamela D’Mello
Breast cancer affects more than 2 million women every year

AI could help reduce cancer deaths

More than two million women get breast cancer every year. Early diagnosis and predicting risk with AI is helping India and Pakistan.
Deutsche Welle
This illustration provided by the Canadian Museum of Nature shows a reconstruction of a dinosaur being attacked by a mammal 125 million years ago. The unusual fossil from China suggests some early mammals may have hunted down dinosaur meat for dinner.

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ fossil shows mammal hunting dinosaur

One of the study’s co-authors said they believe the fossil is the first ever discovered that shows a mammal and dinosaur fighting each other.
Frontline News Desk
Treated water comes out of a canal at the Koramangala-Challaghatta Valley project.

Karnataka’s KC Valley project: A sustainable solution for water crisis?

The Koramangala-Challaghatta Valley project tackles water crisis by recharging groundwater with treated wastewater in drought-prone areas.
Rishika Pardikar
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