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Consumption of ultra-processed and fast foods leading cause of diabetes in India, reveals new study

07/10/2024
The study found that low-AGE diets exhibited improvement in the insulin-sensitivity and reduction in the inflammatory levels compared to high-AGE diets

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024: What is the research that won the prize? | Explained 

07/10/2024
MicroRNAs play a key role in how cells perform specialised functions.

Medicine Nobel 2024 awarded to Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun for discovery of microRNA

07/10/2024
The Nobel Prize for 2024 in Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

Scientists are working on a way to detect cancer with sound waves

07/10/2024
An ultrasound-based alternative to biopsies, which are painful and cumbersome, has been hailed as promising and more advanced than previous work

What is gold?

06/10/2024
Gold doesn’t dissolve in strong nitric acid, which is why the term ‘acid test’ is used to refer to a test of someone’s character

Hidden pandemic of AMR poses challenge for modern medicine

05/10/2024
A simmering silent pandemic of superbugs that is going on for decades, is causing more havoc than most people realise. 

Meghalaya polio case reveals Health Ministry’s reluctance to share details

05/10/2024
 On August 12, the ICMR-NIV Mumbai unit confirmed and reported that the polio case detected in Meghalaya was a type 1 vaccine-derived poliovirus. CDC Atlanta has also confirmed that it is not an imported strain of type-2 VDPV or wild poliovirus type-1 

Nobel Prize 2024: When and where to watch the announcements?

05/10/2024
Here is a detailed guide on when and where to watch the Nobel Prize 2024 announcements.

‘To become an astronaut, love science, do science, and become science’

04/10/2024
ISRO astronaut Group Captain Angad Pratap is one of the four astronauts selected for India’s maiden human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On the Cassowary bird

03/10/2024
This week’s Sci-Five quiz is on the Cassowary bird.

Madagascar mining rush caused no more deforestation than farming: study

03/10/2024
Mining is often assumed to be one of the worse land uses – destroying and polluting the environment and creating barren, moon-like landscapes.

Ancient human DNA from a South African rock shelter sheds light on 10,000 years of history

03/10/2024
What makes the site special is the record of human occupation there, which spans 12,000 years.

Small rocky planet detected in orbit about nearby Barnard's star

03/10/2024
Scientists eager to study nearby potentially habitable worlds are excited by the discovery of the first confirmed planet orbiting Barnard's star, a rocky one with a mass about 40% that of Earth.

Scientists map fruit fly brain in neurobiological milestone

03/10/2024
The research detailed more than 50 million connections between more than 139,000 neurons - brain nerve cells - in the insect.

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