Science : Articles

Anwesha Borthakur
Why Electronic Waste Is an Urgent Pollution Concern
23 Feb 2020
The volume of E-waste produced is equivalent to almost 4,500 Eiffel Towers and enough to form a line covering more than 28,000 km from New York to Bangkok and back.
Sandipan Talukdar
Scientists Condemn Rumours About Origin of Coronavirus in China
21 Feb 2020
Scientists from several countries, engaged in extensive study of SARS-CoV-2 in the virology lab in Wuhan, have concluded that the coronavirus originated in wildlife, says a statement published in…
Sandipan Talukdar
What NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft Reveals About Most Distant Object Ever Visited
21 Feb 2020
The distant object is known as Arrokoth, which is a peanut-shaped, ultra-red object. Arrokoth sits in the trans Pluto region, some 1 billion miles from the Pluto in the Kuiper belt.
Sandipan Talukdar
Animal Tests of Vaccine Against COVID-19 Have Started in China
18 Feb 2020
A few days back, WHO declared that a vaccine could be brought into reality only after 18 months. Meanwhile, a Shanghai company has produced samples of a new vaccine against the virus which has been…
Sandipan Talukdar
Quantum Memory Entangled Over 50 KM in Optic Fibre Cable
15 Feb 2020
Quantum entanglement is a necessary condition for both quantum computing and quantum internet, where two particles are linked and become reliant on each other even if they are thousands of kilometres…
Sandipan Talukdar
‘Ghost Population’ of Archaic Humans Found in Modern Day Genes of People in West Africa
14 Feb 2020
A new study published in Science Advances has found that in a few populations in West Africa, like the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Mende of Sierra Leone, some of their DNA contained variants that are…
Sandipan Talukdar
New Viruses Discovered, Some Have No Recognisable Genes
12 Feb 2020
The other team consisting of Christopher Buck and Michael Tisza, virologists at the National Cancer Institute, have been searching for viruses in animal tissues that store genetic materials in…
Sandipan Talukdar
Global Warming is Hastening Earth’s Ocean Circulation System
11 Feb 2020
The ocean current circulatory system redistributes heat and nutrients around the globe and has a powerful effect on climate. This could have huge consequences.
Prabir Purkayastha
The Novel Coronavirus and the Virus of New Cold War
08 Feb 2020
Some of the brickbats that western media and the governments are hurling at the Chinese is racist. Most of it is a continuation of the new cold war that Trump and co. have unleashed on China
Sandipan Talukdar
Neanderthal DNA in Africans Suggest Back-migration to Africa from Present-day Europe
04 Feb 2020
A new research compares the genome of a Neanderthal, vestiges of which was found in the Altai mountain region of Siberia, with 2,504 modern genomes from the ‘1,000 genome project’ which includes five…