Antidepressants and therapy can provide much needed relief to people with mental health illnesses. But there are many people whose symptoms donât respond to treatment and whose road to recovery often begins after trial and error with different medicines and/or modes of therapy. And in this time their symptoms could get worse. According to one…
Sunita Williams âstuckâ in Space: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief S Somanath chief in a recent discussion has said that Sunita Williams is in a situation âwhere the period has been extendedâ. The ISRO chief told a media house that âstuck in spaceâ was a âsituation that needed to be decoded to find out…
In Arizona, at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a telescope has spent three years building a three-dimensional map of the heavens. In examining the light from tens of millions of galaxies, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) may have found something astounding. DESI, as its name suggests, is a tool to investigate the nature of dark…
Researchers from Iraq and Australia claim they’ve created an artificial intelligence (AI) computer algorithm capable of analysing tongue colour to diagnose medical conditions in real time, boasting 98% accuracy. According to the study led by Ali Al-Naji, affiliated with universities in Baghdad and Australia, individuals with diabetes usually exhibit a yellow tongue while cancer patients…
A blue moon rises above the Apollo Temple in ancient Corinth, Greece, on August 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP The blue moon is a common example of an invented tradition â something someone has claimed is an old, time-honoured practice but which was in fact invented more recently. A second full moon in a…
Few students go into medical research dreaming of one day giving a mouse a tumour or heart disease to a rabbit. But animal experimentation of this kind has become fundamental to modern medicine. For regulatory bodies around the world, treatments that might save human lives must be proven safe and effective in animals with similar…
The outer space world is home to endless mysteries and secrets waiting to be discovered. High definition telescopes and satellites closely observe outer space objects and events to develop better understanding of humans. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Hubble telescope is one of the most versatile and large space telescope renowned for its…
Did you know that the discovery of helium, an element we immediately link with balloons, has an Indian connection? Here, a performer floats in the air with supporters attached to helium balloons. | Photo Credit: AFP What on Earth does a gas that we normally associate with balloons have to do with Guntur, a city…
Sumatran orangutan named Rakus seen two months after wound self-treatment using a medicinal plant, in Indonesia. | Photo Credit: Reuters In the May 2, 2024, issue of the journal Nature, an article titled: âActive self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutanâ, Laumer et al. report on how…
A “Supermoon Blue Moon” is a rare and striking astronomical event that combines two different phenomena — the supermoon and the blue moon. This rare astronomical event is set to occur this August. The full moon in August is traditionally known as the ‘Sturgeon Moon,’ and thus, this Supermoon blue moon is also referred to…
