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  Covid vaccine reduces organ transplant patients infection risk by 80%

  August 06, 2021 17:30 IST

  For the study, published in the journal Transplant Infectious Disease, the team examined clinical data encompassing 2,151 solid organ transplant recipients, including kidney, liver, lung and heart. Of this total number, 912 patients were fully vaccinated and 1,239 were controls (1,151 were unvaccinated and 88 partially vaccinated). Nearly 70 per cent of the vaccinated patients received the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna).  

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  Retreating Ladakh glacier may influence weather patterns: Study

  August 06, 2021 16:05 IST

  Based on field observations for glaciers' mass balance collected via stake networking over the glacier surface since 2016-2019, the researchers assessed the impact of climate change through the lens of past and present response of the Pensilungpa Glacier. Stakes made of bamboo are installed (inserted vertically) on the glacier surface using a steam drill for mass balance measurement.  

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  Covid booster shot produced robust response against Delta: Moderna

  August 05, 2021 21:30 IST

  The company added that its Covid-19 vaccine does not wane away and remains durable through six months after the second dose. The result of its clinical trial, which started in late July 2020 and recruited 30,000 volunteers, showing 94.1 percent efficacy did not change much after six months, the company said in a statement.  

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  High pollution levels increase dementia risk: Study

  August 05, 2021 15:55 IST

  In the UW-led study, a small increase in the levels of fine particle pollution (PM2.5 or particulate matter 2.5 micrometers or smaller) averaged over a decade at specific addresses in the Seattle area was associated with a greater risk of dementia for people living at those addresses.  

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  Three days prior to I-Day, India to launch GISAT-1/EOS-3

  August 05, 2021 15:02 IST

  ​Three days prior to the celebration of its Independence Day, India will be sending up its earth observation satellite EOS-03 earlier named or the Geo Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1), said the Indian space agency.  

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  NASA's X-ray solar imager to probe Sun's Corona

  August 03, 2021 17:04 IST

  Developers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, call the mission "MaGIXS" -- Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer. 

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  Covid-19 virus leaked from China's Wuhan lab: US Republican report

  August 02, 2021 20:19 IST

  The report also raises concern that the lab was conducting "gain-of-function" research in an unsafe environment.  

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  US sees rise in respiratory virus, Delta infections among children

  August 02, 2021 15:35 IST

  Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that cases of RSV have risen gradually since early June, with an even greater spike in the past month, the New York Times reported. RSV leads to runny nose, coughing, sneezing and fever.

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  Earth, Saturn to come closest today. Here's when it will be visible in India

  August 02, 2021 8:25 IST

  "As per Indian Standard Time (IST) at 11.30 am, Saturn and Earth will be closest to each other," an official has informed.

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  Global spike in Covid cases may lead to dangerous variants

  August 01, 2021 21:44 IST

  The World Health Organisation has announced an 80 percent average increase over the past four weeks in five of the health agency's six regions, a jump largely fuelled by the Delta variant.

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  NASA set to launch Boeing Starliner cargo spacecraft to ISS

  August 01, 2021 20:31 IST

  OFT-2 is the second uncrewed flight for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as part of the US space agency's Commercial Crew Programme. The mission is targeted to launch at 1.20 p.m. EDT on August 3, NASA said in a statement.

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  Birds' brain may hold clue why they outlived other dinosaurs

  August 01, 2021 16:46 IST

  "Living birds have brains more complex than any known animals except mammals," said lead investigator Christopher Torres, who conducted the research while at the UT College of Natural Sciences.

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  ISRO to take cooperation with European, Israeli space agencies to higher orbit

  August 01, 2021 11:35 IST

  ISRO is in discussions with European and Israeli space agencies to enhance cooperation.

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  US squashes Bezos' protest against NASA-SpaceX $2.9 billion contract

  July 31, 2021 16:53 IST

  Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics had filed a protest with the US GAO against NASA for awarding a $2.9 billion contracts to SpaceX for landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024.  

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  In-host mutations in COVID-19 virus reflecting in variants, finds study 

  July 31, 2021 16:52 IST

  Tracking the changes that happen in the virus inside a host in individuals and populations might provide important leads to the viral sites that are favourable or disadvantageous for the survival of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, the researchers said.

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  'Intriguing' layer where sun's internal rotation change explained

  July 30, 2021 16:30 IST

  A peek into the internal rotation of the sun using sound waves revealed the existence of an intriguing layer where its rotation profile changes sharply. This is called the near-surface shear layer (NSSL), and exists very close to the solar surface, where there is an outward decrease in angular velocity.

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  Russian module briefly throws International Space Station out of control

  July 30, 2021 8:31 IST

  Flight controllers regained control using thrusters on other Russian components at the station to right the ship, and it is now stable and safe, NASA said.

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  Vaccines prevent 22mn infections, 60,000 deaths in UK: Report

  July 29, 2021 23:45 IST

  Public Health England (PHE) said the estimated number of deaths prevented has increased significantly since the most recent estimates were published, with the estimated number of infections prevented doubling in just two weeks. It was previously estimated that up to July 9, around 37,000 deaths and 11,000,000 infections were prevented.

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  Scientists detect light from behind black hole

  July 29, 2021 18:36 IST

  The team at Stanford University noticed an intriguing pattern while watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away.

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  AMR can usher a pandemic worse than Covid-19, suggest Experts

  July 29, 2021 15:54 IST

  The World Health Organization identifies AMR as one of the significant threats to global health and estimates that it will contribute to 10 million deaths by 2050.

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  International Tiger Day 2021: Theme, History and Significance

  July 29, 2021 9:17 IST

  International Tiger Day 2021: International Tiger Day is observed on July 29 every year.

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  Chandrayaan-3 likely to be launched in second half of 2022

  July 28, 2021 23:08 IST

  Noting that the realisation progress was hampered due to Covid-19 pandemic, he said that all works that were possible in work-from-home mode were taken up even during the lockdown periods.

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  Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas detect 8 asteroids

  July 28, 2021 22:20 IST

  ​At least sixteen students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have detected eight asteroids under the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021, the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the government told PTI on Wednesday.   

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  World Nature Conservation Day 2021: History and significance

  July 28, 2021 15:51 IST

  World Nature Conservation Day 2021: World Nature Conservation Day is observed on July 28 every year.

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  Indian astronomers part of team spotting unique Gamma-ray burst

  July 27, 2021 18:55 IST

  The burst detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on August 26, 2020, turned out to be one for the record books -- the shortest Gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star.

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  Hubble finds evidence of water vapour on Jupiter Moon

  July 27, 2021 15:31 IST

  This water vapour forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates -- that is, turns from solid to gas.

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  IIT Guwahati, IIM Bangalore teams make breakthrough in pricing carbon risk

  July 26, 2021 21:35 IST

  In their paper, the researchers found a mathematical relationship between the carbon risk premium and the value of the future risk.  

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  Meeting climate goals will create 8 million energy jobs worldwide

  July 26, 2021 21:16 IST

  Of the total jobs in 2050, 84 percent would be in the renewables sector, 11 percent in fossil fuels, and 5 percent in the nuclear sector.