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Picture from May 16, 1992 shows Endeavour making its first landing after a successful mission.

Space Shuttle Endeavour’s many successful endeavours

Space Shuttle Endeavour was the fifth and final operational shuttle built as part of NASA’s Space Shuttle programme. During its nearly two decades of active duty from May 1992 to May 2011, Endeavour embarked on 25 successful missions. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at some of the highlights from Endeavour’s voyages...

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Coronavirus | Testing and the importance of low positivity rate

Illustration: Khushboo Singh.

New approach to drug delivery combines biologics and antibody-drug conjugates

Shubashree Desikan This could have impact on incurable diseases, so-called undruggable ones like pancreatic cancer

Slinky find: Named Subdoluseps nilgiriensis , the reptile has a slender body of just about 7 cm and is sandy brown in colour.

New species of skink found from Western Ghats

Aswathi Pacha Skinks are non-venomous, their inconspicuous limbs make them resemble snakes

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The study on effectiveness of convalescent plasma in management of moderate COVID symptoms was conducted in 39 public and private hospitals in India last year.

Plasma therapy has limited effect in COVID patients, says study

A.D. Rangarajan The study, published in British Medical Journal, invloved 464 adults with moderate symptoms

WHO’s Dr. Soumya Swaminathan. File

India COVID-19 2nd wave COVID-19 response over next 6-18 months critical, says Soumya Swaminathan

Ramya Kannan WHO chief scientist warns of more waves.

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Google I/O 2021 will be a virtual event, and it would not have a companion app. People will have access the sessions through a website.

Google I/O 2021 | Android 12 and what else to expect

John Xavier The Alphabet-owned company had already released a few developer previews of Android 12, which has an Emergency SOS feature update.

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WhatsApp has deferred its May 15 deadline as it battles regulatory inquiries in India.

WhatsApp installs fall over 40% as users download rival apps

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The Facebook-owned company announced a contentious privacy policy update in January, triggering a mass exodus of users to rival apps Signal and Telegram.

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When he left Microsoft's board last year, Gates said he was stepping down to focus on philanthropy.

Microsoft investigated Gates before he left board: report

AP The Wall Street Journal reported that Gates resigned before the board's investigation was finished, citing another person familiar with the matter.

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An illustration of the Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) represents a new species of a dinosaur named Tlatolophus galorum after palaeontologists found its 72 million-year-old fossilised remains almost a decade ago, in General Cepeda, Coahuila, Mexico in this undated illustration obtained by Reuters on May 13, 2021.

New dinosaur found in Mexico was 'very communicative': study

AFP These "peaceful, but talkative" dinosaurs could also have had the ability to emit loud sounds to scare off predators, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said

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Doria’s foam-nesting treefrog (Chirixalus doriae) was first described in 1893 from Karin Bia-po in Myanmar and was later sighted in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh. Special Arrangement.

Rare foaming frog resurfaces after 108 years

Rahul Karmakar The natural history and distribution of Doria’s foam-nesting treefrog, last recorded in India in 1912, is virtually unknown

Slinky find: Named Subdoluseps nilgiriensis , the reptile has a slender body of just about 7 cm and is sandy brown in colour.

New species of skink found from Western Ghats

Aswathi Pacha Skinks are non-venomous, their inconspicuous limbs make them resemble snakes

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A worker takes a nap at the deserted MGR Wholesale Vegetable Market in Coimbatore on Sunday.

Vegetable farmers in Pollachi hit hard by pandemic

M Soundariya Preetha They face acute shortage of workers and with the lockdown there are no buyers

A view of Amaravathi Dam

Water released from Amaravathi dam for irrigation

Staff Reporter Water was released from Amaravathi dam on Sunday for irrigation of 4,686 acres in the old ayacut area coming under Madathukulam block in Tiruppur district. Minister for Adi Dravidar Welfare N. Kayalvizhi Selvaraj released the water in the presence of District Collector K. Vijayakarthikeyan, officials from the Public Works Department (Water Resources Organisation), the Revenue Department and farmers. A statement issued by the district administration said that 1,728 million cubic feet of water

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A researcher at Nanyang Technological University's attaching an electrode on the surface of a Venus flytrap plant at a laboratory in Singapore, as scientists develop a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation.

Watch | Scientists develop ‘robo-plants’ to interact with plants

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Pre-embryos made in lab could spur research, ethics debates

India’s blue revolution needs more marine protected areas, says new research

Genetic profiling of swamp deer in Dudhwa planned

Best from science journals: Million-year-old plant fossils beneath Greenland

Global Recycling Day, March 18 Life & Style

Game of straws: eco variants to explore this Global Recycling Day

Google says new Chrome version saves memory on Windows, keeps Mac cooler

World going through unprecedented chip shortage, China trade body says

China is the world's largest buyer of semiconductors, but domestic production is marginal. Sales in China grew 17.8% in 2020 from a year earlier to 891 billion yuan ($137 billion), according to CSIA.

Apple Inc spending from 'green bonds' hits $2.8 billion

Apple, one of the largest private-sector issuers of such bonds, is using the capital as part of its effort to become carbon neutral across its sprawling manufacturing supply chain by 2030

Parliament proceedings | No proposal to appoint social media regulator: Ravi Shankar Prasad

"The social media platforms are enjoined to develop a robust grievance redressal system.”

Parliament proceedings | Envisaged for a year, Chandrayaan-2 orbiter likely to last for 7 years

The mission has accomplished the objective of expanding lunar scientific knowledge

Astronomers sight wandering huge black hole, but at a safe distance

Located at the centre of a galaxy named J0437+2456, this supermassive black hole has a mass about three million times that of our Sun

Third-party developers can now create custom tiles on Google’s Wear OS

As of now, all tiles available to users in Wear OS is offered either by Google or the device’s manufacturer.

After a tussle with Indian developers, Google cuts Play Store fees

The pushback from India made Google re-evaluate its plans to mandate new Play Store rules in its second-largest internet market.

Thirty lakh telemedicine consultations offered under Centre’s eSanjeevani service

The service known as eSanjeevani is operational in 31 States and Union Territories and daily over 35,000 patients across the country are using this innovative digital medium to seek health services, it said.

Mars' 'missing' water is buried beneath surface: study

According to the teams' simulations, the planet lost between most of its water between four to 3.7 billion years ago

Watch | World’s largest floating solar farms being built in Singapore

A video on the largest floating solar farms that are being built in Singapore’s coasts and reservoirs.

As endangered birds lose their songs, they can't find mates: study

About 12% of male regent honeyeaters wind up producing mangled versions of songs typically sung by noisy friarbirds and black-faced cuckooshrikes

Blacklisted Chinese firms eye lawsuits after Xiaomi win against Trump ban

The Trump administration's move to blacklist Xiaomi Corp, knocked $10 billion off its market share and sent its shares down 9.5 percent in January.

Uber to give UK drivers minimum wage, pension, holiday pay

Providing more benefits for its drivers is likely to raise costs for San Francisco-based Uber, which already was struggling to make a profit and had previously run into regulatory trouble in London.

Primordial lightning strikes may have helped life emerge on Earth

The researchers examined an unusually large and pristine fulgurite sample formed when lightning struck the backyard of a home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, outside Chicago

South Wayanad bird survey records 166 species

Two globally threatened species found

New plant species found in Chittoor

The discovery, in the southern Eastern ghats, is featured in international journal ‘Phytotaxa’

Farmers in Kangeyam a disappointed lot

Concrete lining of LBP canal, cess on coconut, copra did not go well with them

Govt., NIMHANS tie up for mental health outreach to children

The Ministry of Women and Child Development is funding a project led by NIMHANS aimed at mental health outreach for children who are abandoned and

‘Post-vaccine blood clots a form of rare cerebral thrombosis’: European Medicines Agency

WHO rules out link between AstraZeneca vaccine and clots

Delhi is the most polluted capital city globally, says report

In 2020, 84% of all monitored countries observed air quality improvements

NIO launches project for mapping genetic diversity in Indian ocean

TraceBioMe envisages extensive sampling of water, sediments, planktons and various organisms in different areas

5G phones to boost the global smartphone shipments this year

It also see the increasing competition in 5G Android market, particularly among Chinese vendors to bring down average selling price of 5G smartphones to $404 by the end of 2025.

Nokia to cut up to 10,000 jobs over next two years

After taking over the top job last year, Chief Executive Pekka Lundmark has been making changes in a bid to transform the company to better compete with Nordic rival Ericsson.

ByteDance team to develop AI chips as China aims for self-reliance

Chinese technology giants are stepping up efforts to design their own chips in a sign of China's ambitions to reduce its dependence on foreign producers such as Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia Corp.

‘Agriculture budget’ exercise begins in Rajasthan

The exercise for presenting a separate “agriculture budget”, with the emphasis on welfare measures for farmers, has started in Rajasthan in

How to build the ultimate gaming crib

Set-up is everything. Here is our starter guide on how to kick off a love for video games, for any budget and creature comforts

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan: 157 medical colleges under different stages of implementation in India

He said 58 of these colleges are in the first phase of the implementation, 24 in the second phase and 75 colleges, which were announced recently, in the third phase.

Google rival calls out search giant for spying on users

DDG took to Twitter to point out that Google added labels for ‘Search’ and ‘Gmail’ after delaying the update for months.

Non-invasive skin swab tests can quickly detect COVID-19: study

The samples were collected by gently swabbing a skin area rich in sebum such as the face, neck or back

AI adoption in organisations is moving ‘too fast’: KPMG survey

Concerns around use of AI was more prominent among smaller firms, Gen Zs and Millennials. Ethics, governance, and regulation of AI are major factors, the study notes

Have trouble sleeping? These sleep aids could help

Sleep aids that may help you get some much-needed zzzz

Several Microsoft Teams users hit with login issues; company says it’s fixing it

The issue may have stemmed from Microsoft’s recent changes to its authentication system. The Redmond-based company said on Monday it is fixing an access issue “affecting users worldwide” for multiple 365 services, including its Teams platform.

Why do certain smells trigger powerful memories?

The team hopes that this work will contribute to the development of treatments for smell dysfunction and loss which has gained special attention in the era of COVID-19.

Google to let users add missing roads in Maps with new tool

Whenever a user notices a road missing in the Map, they can simply click on the side menu button, choose “Edit the map”, and select “Missing Road”.

Bitcoin falls after weekend record high as India considers a ban

The cryptocurrency had hit a record high of $61,781.83 on Saturday after U.S. President Joe Biden signed off on his $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus and ordered an acceleration in vaccinations.

Encrypted messaging app Signal stops working in China

China's cyber authorities have become increasingly strict in recent years, widening the scope of apps, media outlets and social media sites banned in the country.

Twitter launches multi-lingual ‘info prompt’ ahead of Assembly elections

The micro-blogging platform’s initiative with the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissions is aimed at tackling misinformation and providing reliable details related to elections.

'Bee fences' to ward off elephant attacks

Kodagu to have ‘bee fences’ to ward off wild elephants

Facebook to label vaccine posts to combat COVID-19 misinformation

Facebook is also adding a tool to help get users vaccinated by connecting them to information about where and when they can get their shot

Visakhapatnam sees mass movement of butterflies

Researchers term it peculiar during this time of the year

Tobacco auctions begin on promising note

Good grade out-turn with bright grade varieties augured well for farmers: tobacco board chief

Forever pressing play with Lou Ottens’ invention, the cassette tape

On March 6 2021, Lou Ottens, a pioneer in the audio tech world, passed away. We speak with collectors about why this medium will always remain special

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