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  'Dragon Man' discovered in China represents new type of human species: Scientists

  Science | June 26, 2021 10:53 IST

  A massive fossilized skull was discovered by researchers in China's Dragon River region. Scientists now claim that this skull is actually the new species of ancient human.

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  Oxford scientists to study ivermectin's efficacy for COVID treatment

  World | June 23, 2021 14:07 IST

  Previous studies of ivermectin, which show that early administration with ivermectin can reduce viral load and the duration of symptoms in some patients with mild Covid, have generally been small or low quality.

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  Scientists devise novel method for early detection of tropical cyclones

  India | June 09, 2021 17:21 IST

  The method aims to identify initial traces of pre-cyclonic eddy vortices in the atmospheric column, prior to satellite detection over ocean surface, and track its spatio-temporal evolution, DST said.

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  Sputnik V Phase 3 trial clear, transparent: Russian scientists

  India | May 13, 2021 19:20 IST

  A team of scientists from universities in the US, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Russia had earlier flagged concerns over Sputnik V Phase 3 trial, specifically on discrepancies in data sharing, trial protocols, inconsistencies in data reported and numerical results.

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  Japan scientists to study source of high heat on asteroid

  Science | February 05, 2021 17:29 IST

  ​Japanese space experts said Thursday they will examine soil samples brought back from a distant asteroid in an attempt to find the source of heat that altered the celestial body, in their search for clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth.  

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  Scientists develop novel vaccine platform that may help prevent future coronavirus pandemics

  Science | January 15, 2021 17:41 IST

  Scientists have designed a vaccine candidate that induces protection in mice against "a wide range of related coronaviruses," an innovation that may help protect against future pandemic-potential viruses that jump from animals to humans.

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  Scientists demand rollback of approvals for emergency use authorisation given to two vaccines

  India | January 06, 2021 16:13 IST

  The Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum have demanded the rollback of approvals for emergency use authorisation given to two vaccine candidates by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI).

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  'Scientists can play vital role in making India superpower': Rajnath Singh

  News | December 18, 2020 15:20 IST

  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during DRDO award function in Delhi on December 18 said scientists can play vital role in making India a superpower.

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  100-year-old mystery solved! Here's what scientists revealed

  Science | December 16, 2020 17:23 IST

  Using brain imaging techniques, scientists, including those from The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in Odisha, have unravelled the century-old mystery of how malaria affects the brain, an advance that reveals how the deadly disease causes different outcomes in adults and children.

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  Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic

  World | January 06, 2021 17:12 IST

  Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro’s Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through dense rainforest. The researchers were on a mission: capture bats and help prevent the next global pandemic.

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  Greenland ice sheet faces irreversible melting, say scientists

  Science | December 03, 2020 17:12 IST

  ​The massive Greenland ice sheet could be facing a point of no return, beyond which it may no longer fully regrow, permanently changing sea levels around the world, warns a new study.  

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  Indian-American scientists identify possible Covid-19 treatment

  Science | November 21, 2020 18:39 IST

  A team of Indian-origin immunologists in the US has discovered a potential strategy to prevent life-threatening inflammation, lung damage, and organ failure in patients with Covid-19.

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  Three reasons why coronavirus can cause silent hypoxia

  Lifestyle | November 21, 2020 8:31 IST

  Boston University biomedical engineers and collaborators from the University of Vermont have begun to crack one of the most life-threatening mysteries behind the relationship between silent hypoxia and coronavirus following different scenarios.

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  Scientists seek evidence over claim that cow dung chip can reduce cell phone radiation

  India | October 19, 2020 7:58 IST

  More than 600 scientists and science educators have written to Vallabhbhai Kathiria, the chairman of Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog, seeking scientific evidence to back his claim that a cow dung chip can reduce radiation from cell phone.  

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  Scientists develop new tool to uncover patterns in coronavirus mutations

  Science | October 03, 2020 13:09 IST

  Scientists have developed a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 using information from a global database of testing information, an advance that may aid in the development of therapeutics against the deadly disease.

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  Study suggests COVID-19 infects majority of bad dreams

  News | October 02, 2020 12:10 IST

  In a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, scientists used artificial intelligence to help analyze the dream content of close to a thousand people and found that the novel coronavirus had infected more than half of the distressed dreams reported. The researchers crowdsourced sleep and stress data from more than 4,000 people during the sixth week of the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland. About 800 respondents also contributed information about their dreams during that time - many of which revealed shared anxiety about the pandemic.

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  Scientists on Arctic mission make unplanned detour to pole

  Science | August 20, 2020 10:56 IST

  A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour there due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.  

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  Indian scientists make space bricks for lunar habitation

  Science | August 17, 2020 11:19 IST

  The Indian space agency launched two unmanned missions to the moon in 2008 and 2019 as part of its inter-planetary exploration to study the earth's natural satellite, though it failed to land on the lunar surface.

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  Scientists use AI to identify hundreds of COVID-19 drug candidates

  Science | August 13, 2020 12:39 IST

  A team led by an Indian-origin scientist has used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could help treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2. 

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  Scientists find genes that help cancer cells to penetrate brain

  News | August 13, 2020 9:46 IST

  In an attempt to create new methods for cancer diagnosis and treatment, an international team of scientists, including a researcher from Sechenov University, reviewed scientific articles on proteins (and genes encoding them) that help cancer cells en