Category: Science&Tech

The first of a pair of climate satellites designed to study heat emissions at Earth’s poles for NASA is in orbit after lifting off atop Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand on Read More …

In May 2024, a five-year-old girl undergoing treatment for primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) died at the Government Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode. Key points

In their latest ‘Dietary Guidelines for Indians (DGIs)’, the ICRM advised against the consumption of protein supplements (or protein powders) on a regular basis.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has alerted traders’/fruits handlers/Food Business Operators (FBOs) operating ripening chambers to strictly ensure compliance with the prohibition on calcium carbide for artificial ripening of fruits, particularly during the mango season. Calcium Read More …

The Tamil Nadu State highways department is undertaking the stabilisation of slopes around the Nilgiris’ major roads at five locations by growing grasses to prevent soil erosion.

India’s artificial intelligence startup Krutrim has introduced graphics processing unit as a-service (GPUaaS) for enterprises and developers to train their AI systems. Key points

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, have developed an antigen that can hitch-hike on a natural protein called serum albumin in blood and ride all the way to the nearest lymph node. Key points (Source: Business Line)

Aurora lights in red hues were visible from Ladakh’s pristine skies at night, in the intervening hours between May 10 and May 11. Key points

The world’s largest direct air capture and storage (DAC+S) plant, designed to suck planet-heating pollution from the atmosphere, commenced operations in Iceland. Direct air capture technology

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth.

The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, has developed biocontrol agent Trichoderma asperellum (2% WP), and registered it with the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC). The biocontrol agent will help Punjab farmers manage the deadly ‘foot rot’ or ‘bakanae’ Read More …

Two papers published recently, one in the journal Science and another in the Cell, have generated new interest in the endosymbiotic theory. Prokaryotes vs Eukaryotes

Catatumbo lightning is a meteorological phenomenon specific to the Catatumbo River area at Lake Maracaibo in Venzuela.

For the first time, scientists have created a free-standing sheet of gold named Goldene that is only one atom thick. This makes gold the first metal to be formulated into (freestanding) 2D sheets. It has opened up a host of Read More …