Union health ministry said on Saturday there are currently no reported cases of Monkeypox in India even though cautionary measures will be put in place to prevent and control the spread of the disease. Earlier in the day, a review meeting was held to assess the risk of a large outbreak of Monkeypox. Although the…
A South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) is seen at a laboratory at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, U.S., March 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: Katherine Seghers/LSU The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature – in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, French…
NASA images: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared stunning image 10-billion-year-old globular cluster of stars, NGC 6496, which the space agency describes it as âheavy metal.â NASA added that the clusters is about 35,000 light-years away from Earth. In a post on Instagram, the space agency also added that the stars in…
Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IIT,M) in Chennai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj B/The Hindu Questions: 1. In the early 1900s, this chemist published a famous work called âA History of Hindu Chemistryâ in two volumes. He was noted for his work on the synthesis of various nitrites and as an industrialist, philanthropist, and…
EOS-8 seen onboard third and final developmental flight SSLV-D3-EOS-08 at  at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh | Photo Credit: PTI The Indian Space Research Organisation on Friday (August 16, 2024) successfully launched an earth observation satellite, onboard the third and final development flight of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-03 from the the first launch pad at Satish Dhawan…
The impact of the Chicxulub asteroid sent columns of rock into the earthâs atmosphere, incinerated the planetâs forests and drove tsunamis far across the oceans. | Photo Credit: NASA/Reuters It was a turning point in the history of life on the earth. An asteroid an estimated 10-15 km) wide slammed into Mexicoâs Yucatan Peninsula 66…
Brains learn by being subtly rewired: some connections between neurons, known as synapses, are strengthened, while others must be weakened. But because the brain has billions of neurons, of which millions could be involved in any single task, scientists have puzzled over how it knows which synapses to tweak and by how much. Dr Hinton…
People who were stranded at Attamala after the landslide being evacuated through a temporary bridge on July 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat A team of geologists who surveyed the landslide-hit zone in Wayanad on Thursday (August 15, 2024) said a heavy rainfall-induced âdamming effectâ in a densely forested and uninhabited uphill region had…
View of Didymos, Dimorphos, and the plume coming off of Dimorphos after the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART mission, purposefully made impact, in this image acquired by ASIâs LICIACube satellite just before its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, September 26, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Launched in 2011, NASAâs NEOWISE mission operated in Earthâs orbit…
ISRO has announced that its latest earth observation satellite, EOS-08, is set to launch on August 16, 2024, aboard the third and final developmental flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)-D3, reported PTI. This update follows a previous plan to launch the satellite on August 15, 2024. The space agency did not provide specific…
