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Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19: Auto-Antibodies Driving Disease Severity
21 Jan 2021
Auto-antibodies mistakenly target the body’s own tissues and organs in place of a pathogen. They can also target elements of the immune system.
Newsclick Team
COVID-19 Cases: Data and Graphs of India and the World
19 Jan 2021
Statistics and tracking the number of coronavirus confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and deaths due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. New cases, deaths, and number of tests per million…
Seema Sharma
Nationwide Sample Survey on Snakebite Cases to Begin in February
19 Jan 2021
Despite having the highest number of snakebite cases in the world, India chooses to neglect the issue, largely due to the fact that the cases involve the economically disadvantaged.
Sandipan Talukdar
Global Warming Emergency: 2020 Hottest Year Ever Recorded Along with 2016
12 Jan 2021
The rise in temperature in 2020 was recorded despite a fall in global emissions due to the pandemic-induced lockdown and the absence of El Niño, which leads to a rise in temperature, that occurred in…
Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19: Study Claims Chemotherapy Drug could be Repurposed for Treatment, Caveats Remain
01 Jan 2021
The study reported that Pralatrexate showed better efficacy in comparison to Azithromycin and Remdesivir. However, the cell toxicity in the case of Pralatrexate remains a concern.
Sandipan Talukdar
2020: The Year in Science
31 Dec 2020
From vaccines being churned out in record time to space travel and the interesting tidbit that the Indus Valley people really liked their beef, it has been a remarkable year for the sciences.
Prabir Purkayastha
Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India
26 Dec 2020
Three academic publishers are asking for blocking of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India, two websites who provide free downloads of research publications and books to research scholars and students.
Sandipan Talukdar
World’s Largest Iceberg Fractures into Two Pieces, Sends Alarms Ringing for Penguin Island
21 Dec 2020
If the iceberg collides with the South Georgian landmass it will create havoc for the biodiversity of the island, according to the European Space Agency, which recorded the fracture of the iceberg.
Sandipan Talukdar
China’s Chang’e 5 Returns with Lunar Samples, NASA’s ‘InSight’ into MARS’ Interior
17 Dec 2020
The Chang’e-5 mission has become the first mission to collect lunar samples and bring them back to the Earth in over 40 years.
Sandipan Talukdar
Loneliness Triggers Same Area in Brain as Hunger, Researchers Find
16 Dec 2020
Another recent study found that a unique signature exists in the brains of people suffering from loneliness, which makes them fundamentally distinguishable from others.