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Sandipan Talukdar
Swine Flu Hits ‘Epidemic’ Proportions in India
21 Feb 2019
The H1N1 virus till now has infected 12,000 people with 377 already succumbing to it, says the Union Health Ministry.
Sandipan Talukdar
Some Plants Steal Useful Genetic Resources from Their Neighbours
19 Feb 2019
This lateral gene transfer method allows organisms to skip the long path of evolution for acquiring traits for survival.
Sandipan Talukdar
Are There Mountains Deep Inside The Earth?
19 Feb 2019
Analysis of the massive Bolivian earthquake suggests so.
Sandipan Talukdar
Evolution of Warm Bloodedness Helped Mammals in Enlarged and Better Functioning Brains
16 Feb 2019
The increased temperature of endothermic organisms made the neurons more energy efficient in producing electrical signals, the basis of brain functioning.
Sandipan Talukdar
Unusual Deep Sea Microbes Shed Light on Evolution of Early Life on Earth
14 Feb 2019
This new class of microbes, named as Hydrothermachaeota, have a metabolic strategy through which they can obtain energy for sustenance of life by processing carbon monoxide and sulfate.
Sandipan Talukdar
Searching Possibility of New Medicines in Vast Chemical Library
12 Feb 2019
In a recent study published in Nature, researchers scanned a vast chemical database of about 170 million molecules, which is almost 100 times larger than previous databases, and identified new…
A Lakshmi Kanth Bharathi
An Elephant Opens Our Eyes
11 Feb 2019
A number of forest officials are behind an elephant in the news for the last few days in Tamil Nadu, as the government supposed to safeguard its forest and habitat, allowed private parties, including…
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The Ganita Story - Winner of Two Awards at National Science Film Festival
10 Feb 2019
The Ganita Story is about the early history of Mathematics with a special focus on the number system, zero and negative numbers, besides Pythagorean theorem and the proof system in Mathematics.
Jyotsna Singh
Patent Opposition Filed For Johnson And Johnson’s TB Medicine
09 Feb 2019
The company is yet to produce child-friendly version, and its patent is not allowing other manufacturers to start producing it.
Sandipan Talukdar
Previously Considered Safe, East Antarctica’s Ice is Melting Unexpectedly Rapidly
09 Feb 2019
A new study on the basis of satellite images over 40 years has concluded that Antarctica is depositing six times more ice to the sea than it did in 1979.