US FDA approves Johnson & Johnson's drug for immune-mediated disorder
The US FDA has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug to treat patients aged 12 years and older with an immune-mediated disorder Source link
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China’s Shenzhou-19 astronauts return to earth
Chinese astronauts (from left) Wang Haoze, Cai Xuzhe, and Song Lingdong wave as they attend a see-off ceremony for the Shenzhou-19 mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, October 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on April 30 after six months on the country’s space station,…
Australian State culls 700 starving koalas after bushfire, stoking controversy
Snipers in helicopters have shot more than 700 koalas in the Budj Bim National Park in western Victoria in recent weeks. Itâs believed to be the first time koalas have been culled in this way. The cull became public on Good Friday after local wildlife carers were reportedly tipped off. A fire burned about 20%…
Starlinkâs India struggle: spectrum, surveillance, and connectivity
The vast rural expanses of India are often overshadowed by the countryâs urban-centric digital growth; digital isolation has long stifled progress. Starlinkâs ambitious satellite network now promises to turn night into day, literally and figuratively, by beaming high-speed internet across terrains where cables donât reach and towers donât exist. But as this technological advance prepared…
The Science Quiz: Donât go to these places for summer break
The Science Quiz: Donât go to these places for summer break 1 / 6 | Visual: The red dot here shows the location of the worldâs third-deepest trench, off the Philippines. It shares its name with a ship that bombed Chennai (then Madras) during World War I. Name it. 2 / 6 | Mount ____,…
New model finds locusts making complex decisions in deadly swarms
In late 2019, a wave of billions of desert locusts flew into western India through Pakistan. Their journey had already spanned several thousand kilometers since they first erupted in the arid plains of East Africa. Locusts are grasshoppers that, in the right conditions, multiply rapidly. They grow larger and change colour in response to their…
Axiom space mission: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to fly to International Space Station on May 29
Axiom Mission 4 crew, from left to right, European Space Agency astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. Photo: X/@NASASpaceOps via PTI Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shuklaâs mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to be launched on May 29…
Scientists Tally Oil Majorsâ Climate Damage With Eye to Legal Liability
(Bloomberg) — Over the last decade, scientists have rapidly developed the field of climate attribution research, teasing out the role played by global warming in individual natural disasters. Meanwhile, their ways of tracking a single emitterâs influence on temperature or sea-level rise have grown more sophisticated, as research into climate economics has advanced. The result is…
Insufficient support for deep tech, startups by public-funded R&D: Study
Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Image/iStockphoto Only about one in four public-funded research and development organisations in India give incubation support to start-ups and only one in six provide support to âdeep techâ startups. Only 15% collaborated with industry overseas and only half of them opened their facilities to outside researchers and students,…
Why do clothes look dark when immersed in water?
A: The colour of an object is determined by the spectral composition of the light reflected by it. When a surface is dry, the reflected light rays corresponding to the colour of the surface are superposed with diffused white light arising out of random scattering resulting from the roughness and irregularities of the surface. In…