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Sandipan Talukdar
CAA Enforced, But Assam Still Enraged
12 Jan 2020
While almost every state of the country is protesting after the passage of CAB, Assam has been at the forefront since 2016—when the CAB was proposed.
Sandipan Talukdar
Measles Virus Arose as Human Pathogen With Emergence of Large Cities
04 Jan 2020
Previous researches had estimated the time period of measles virus’s invasion on human population to be around 11th or 12th century CE.
Sandipan Talukdar
Year 2019 in Science: History of Humans, Ebola Treatment and Quantum Computing
02 Jan 2020
The year 2019 also witnessed several crucial findings in the science world.
Sandipan Talukdar
Chinese Scientist Behind the Genetically Engineered Babies Jailed for 3 Years
31 Dec 2019
He Jiankui’s work sparked wide-scale controversy among the scientific communities across the world. The main concern was that of ethics.
Sandipan Talukdar
Artificial Metallic Nanowire Network Can Give Rise to Brain-Like Functions
28 Dec 2019
By using the artificial network, the research claims to generate electrical characteristics that are similar to those associated with higher order brain functions which are uniquely human, like…
Sandipan Talukdar
Cosmic Candy Cane Near Milky Way’s Core Observed by NASA
24 Dec 2019
The image of the cosmic giant was captured by NASA’s Goddard-IRAM superconducting 2-millimeter Observer (GISMO) camera. This was accompanied by a 30-meter radio telescope.
Sandipan Talukdar
How Old Are Earth’s Forests
21 Dec 2019
The kind of roots discovered in the Cairo trees indicate that they locked the carbon dioxide away which radically shifted the planet’s climate and paved the way to an atmosphere we have today.
Sandipan Talukdar
Human DNA Extracted from 5700 Year Old Chewing Gum
19 Dec 2019
“It is amazing to have gotten a complete ancient human genome from anything other than bone.”
Sandipan Talukdar
Global Food System Changes Led to Overweight-Malnutrition in Low and Moderate Income Countries
18 Dec 2019
The Lancet report showed that more than one third of the low and middle income countries are suffering from overlapping form of malnutrition – 45 out of 123 countries in the 1990s and 48 out of 126…
Sandipan Talukdar
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting 7 Times Faster Than in 1990s
14 Dec 2019
The sea level rises are likely to reach 67 centimetres by 2100, which is about 7 centimetre more than the IPCC’s previous prediction.