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The new species, which is 220 million years old, was named Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus. This “grandfather” of the dinosaurs had very good vision and was very agile, which would have been key for him to survive among the protococodrilo giants that Read More …
By Dr. Divya Khatter (Twitter handle: @divya_khatter) Faridabad, November 22 : Tuberculosis claims two million lives each year globally. Early detection and treatment are crucial to prevent spread, outbreaks, and development of resistance. Scientists at the Translational Health Science and Read More …
By Yogesh Sharma (Twitter handle: @Yogesh21Sharma9) Hyderabad, November 19 : Arsenic accumulation in rice grains is one of the serious agricultural issues in India. To address this, researchers at Lucknow- based CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute have developed transgenic rice by inserting Read More …
On November 15 evening, NASA’s Kepler space telescope received its final set of commands to disconnect communications with Earth. The “goodnight” commands finalize the spacecraft’s transition into retirement, which began on Oct. 30 with NASA’s announcement that Kepler had run out of Read More …
Astronomers have discovered a frozen planet with a mass more than three times that of the Earth. It is orbiting a star only six light-years away. According to the researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the potentially rocky planet, Read More …
Scientists have uncovered an asteroid impact crater, bigger than the area of Paris, buried beneath a kilometre of snow and ice in northern Greenland, . This is the first time that a crater of any size has been found under Read More …
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on November 14, 2018 launched GSAT-29 communication satellite, from the second developmental flight of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MarkIII (GSLV MkIII-D2) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. GSLV MkIII-D2 lifted off from the Read More …
Researchers at the University of Manchester in England have completed construction of the world’s largest supercomputer designed to work in the same way as the human brain. It is “SpiNNaker” (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) supercomputer. It can simulate the internal Read More …
To identify cases of monogenic diabetes across the country, a National Monogenic Diabetes Study Group has been formed . The group is Supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) and Dr. Mohan’s Read More …
Dr TV Venkateswaranand Dr T R Govindarajan New Delhi, November 5: The Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has upheld the environmental clearance earlier granted to the India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project by the ministry of environment, Read More …
NASA’ Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun’s surface on Oct. 29, 2018. The previous record for Read More …
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft mission has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed scheduled communications sessions with NASA’s Deep Space Network on Oct. 31, and Nov. 1. As per the NASA, the Read More …
PALEONTOLOGICAL FINDING Argentine and Spanish paleontologists found an adult specimen and two juvenile specimens of this new species of dinosaur, which they named Lavocatisaurus agrioensis. They made an almost complete reconstruction of his skull and skeleton. Dr. José Luis Carballido, Read More …
By Rayies Altaf (Twitter handle: @rayies_sts) New Delhi, November 2: Inspired by mosquito and honeybee stings, scientists are trying to design a smart syringe needle that promises to be painless as well as skin-friendly while delivering medicine into the bodies Read More …
By Niruj Mohan Ramanujam (Twitter handle: @asipoec) Pune : Indian astrophysicists have discovered large ultraviolet lobes and jets that were hurled out from a dying star, using data from AstroSat – space observatory launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation Read More …