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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.
Sandipan Talukdar
China’s Sophisticated Space Missions: Collecting Lunar Sample Back to Earth, Satellites to Trace Gravitational Waves
14 Dec 2020
Chang’e 5, the moon mission of China launched in November 23rd has been in news for almost a month now.
Newsclick Team
Indus Valley Civilisation Had Meat Heavy Diet, Finds Study
12 Dec 2020
A joint archeological study by Cambridge University and Benares Hindu University has analysed lipid residues found in Harappan Pottery.
Sandipan Talukdar
New Study Says Harappans ate Meat, Were Especially Fond of Beef
10 Dec 2020
The research team recovered 172 pottery fragments from five Harappan sites and conducted a lipid residue analysis on them.
Sandipan Talukdar
New Findings Show Way to Better Manage and Prevent Uranium Contamination in Groundwater
09 Dec 2020
Anthropogenic factors have not only affected the climate but have also adversely impacted the groundwater.
Sandipan Talukdar
AlphaFold: Artificial Intelligence Platform Towards Calculation of Protein Structures
02 Dec 2020
Through this algorithm, developed by the UK-based company, DeepMind, they have declared to have achieved prediction of protein structures with much more accuracy than the already available computer…