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Researchers uncover remains of Ice Age mastodons in Peru 

25/09/2024
The mastodons likely migrated from North America down to South America in search of food and water as climate conditions changed, experts believe.

Could global warming impede weather and climate forecasting?

25/09/2024
It is critical we assess the costs and benefits of the considerable human, financial, and computational resources for climate projections out to 2100

What are retractions and why do they matter? | Explained

25/09/2024
What is a retraction index? Why do researchers use potentially duplicated or manipulated work?

Beads on the moon suggest it had volcanoes more recently than thought

25/09/2024
The findings are based on China’s Chang’e-5 mission and raise a new mystery that Chandrayaan-4 could help answer

Massive Greenland landslide sent seismic waves around earth for nine days

24/09/2024
A melting glacier led to a planet-wide quake, and it may not be the last

Daily Quiz: On sign languages

23/09/2024
September 23 is International Sign Languages day, meant to support and protect the linguistic identity and cultural diversity of all deaf people and other sign language users. How much do you know about signing?

The number of rhinos is slightly up but poaching has increased too

23/09/2024
Rhinos are mega herbivores that mow parks and create inroads for other herbivores, and are also good for establishing forests by ingesting seeds and spreading them in their dung

Scientists, civil society members write open letter to Bharat Biotech and ICMR over prosecution of researchers

23/09/2024
This follows reports of Bharat Biotech filing a defamation suit against Banaras Hindu University researchers, for a paper they published on a long-term safety analysis of Covaxin

Vancomycin may not be able to treat MRSA infections for long

23/09/2024
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rarely resists vancomycin; only 16 such cases have been reported in India so far

Are antibiotics responsible for inflammatory bowel diseases?

21/09/2024
Breakdown of the mucus barrier, which separates the intestinal epithelium from the microbiota, is a hallmark of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs).

Commercialising health services can be a recipe for disaster, says Sujatha Rao

21/09/2024
If contract management is weak, PPPs can end up with public assets going into private hands, and the government abdicating its responsibility to provide affordable/free care to its citizens

Cutting edge projects avoided in India due to aversion to risk and intolerance of failure: DRDO chief

21/09/2024
This attitude is slowly changing with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh giving leeway for high-risk projects, said DRDO Chairman Dr. Samir V. Kamat

ISRO will take all precautions before manned Gaganyaan mission: Somanath

20/09/2024
The ultimate vision is building a space station by 2035 and having an Indian land on the moon by 2040, says the ISRO chief

A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19’s origin

20/09/2024
Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people

Titan submersible’s scientific director says the submarine malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive

20/09/2024
OceanGate submersible implodes en route to Titanic site, raising questions about company operations and safety practices

In a single finger bone, scientists find signs of Britain’s largest flying animal

19/09/2024
The 149 million-year-old fossil, known as EC K2576 and nicknamed “Abfab” by the researchers, was found in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Surprised? CERN supercollider discovers heaviest particles can entangle, too

19/09/2024
In an experiment called ATLAS has just found entanglement in pairs of top quarks: the heaviest particles known to science.

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