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Staff move bio-waste containers past the entrance of the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where some infected with a new virus are being treated, in Wuhan, China on January 22, 2020.

WHO to meet again today to decide on declaring novel coronavirus a global health emergency

Apparently, the emergency committee that met on January 22 was split on whether to designate the illness a global health emergency.

Plain speaking: Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan delivering the TNQ distinguished lecture in Chennai on Wednesday.

Science doesn’t stop because you have got a big award: Venki Ramakrishnan

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ISRO’s Lady robot ‘Vyomamitra’ was the centre of attraction at the inaugural session of the “Human Spaceflight and Exploration — Present Challenges and Future Trends” in Bengaluru on January 22, 2020.

ISRO to send lady robot ‘Vyomamitra’ in unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft ahead of human spaceflight

Special Correspondent Vyomamitra, a combination of two Sanskrit words Vyoma (Space) and Mitra (Friend), took everyone by surprise when she introduced herself to the audience

Mars 2020 rover naming contest: pick your favourite from the 9 finalists

The Hindu Net Desk More than 28,000 essays were submitted and a panel of 4,700 volunteer judges helped narrow it down to 155 semifinalists from every State and territory in the U.S.

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Reusable tool: The heavy metals can be recovered by treating the nanostructure with mild acid, says Ananya Sah

IIT Bombay efficiently removes heavy metals from water

R. Prasad The nanostructure showed 80-90% adsorption efficiency for arsenic, chromium, cadmium, mercury

K. Sivan with his colleagues at a press conference at the ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru.

New data relay satellites to keep Gaganyaan crew in touch with Earth

Madhumathi D.S. Astronauts can be fully and continuously in touch with mission control throughout their travel

People react at the Marina in Chennai on December 11, 2019 as they watch the PSLV-C48, carrying India’s radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites, leave a trail of smoke after its launch from Sriharikota.

India boosts radar satellite count with two launches in 2019

Madhumathi D. S. Among the significant but low-profile Indian space missions of 2019 were the launches of two Radar Imaging Satellites, RISAT-2B and RISAT-2BR1.Earth observation (EO) satellites that use a radar, thus giving them all-weather vision, have been around since 1978. India entered this field in 2009 with RISAT-2 using an Israeli built payload. Ten years on, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now increased to four its tally of SAR, or synthetic aperture radar, satellites. And the last

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ISRO Chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan (L), Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India K VijayRaghavan and others look at humanoid robot during the inauguration of Symposium on 'Human Spaceflight and Exploration', a 3-day event organised by International Academy of Astronautics,(IAA), ISRO and Astronautical Society of India (ASI), in Bengaluru, on January 22, 2020.

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University of Hyderabad’s inhibitor increases effectiveness of malaria drugs

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Individuals are more honest than they think they are

One porcupine burrow houses 22 different animals

Scientists find new gene linked to schizophrenia

Does your salt have cyanide?

NASA tests launch-abort system for its moon mission

South Americans marvel at solar eclipse

People in large numbers flocked to Chile’s Coquimbo region to witness the moment

Fact check: No, potassium ferrocyanide in some salt brands is not at toxic levels

Citing a report from U.S.-based West American Analytical Laboratories, Shiv Shankar Gupta, chairman of Godhum Grains and Food Products, accused some

Why are monsoons difficult to predict?

Have the methods to forecast India’s seasonal rain changed? What are the factors that can turn predictions awry?

Sunday Quiz | This week, it’s all about asteroids

The Hindu’s weekly quiz that doesn’t go easy on you.

New approach proposed for post-stroke rehabilitation

Existing methods ignore diversity of lesions and variability of individual responses

IISER Kolkata takes a step towards predicting space weather

The team has predicted the shape of the Sun’s atmosphere that the eclipse will reveal

Indian scientist to be Co-I for NASA’s PUNCH mission

The mission will study the Sun using four suitcase-sized microsats

IIT Hyderabad fabricates device for early diagnosis of heart attack

The microfluidic device can detect the biomarker even at low concentrations

Nipah virus: Experimental antiviral drug shows promise

Remdesivir drug used for Ebola treatment can stop Nipah virus from making new copies of its genome

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of Chandrayaan-2, India’s Moon Mission

India is going to the Moon, yet again. ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission is set for launch on July 15, 2019.

Desert-dwelling carnivorous dinosaur’s bones found in Brazil

Vespersaurus paranaensis used its claws to capture prey

NASA to open sealed moon rock samples

Will use new technology to study them

75 student satellites may fly to space as India turns 75

ITCA has roped in engineering colleges to form consortium

Methane on Mars: what does it mean?

NASA's Curiosity Rover has detected the highest ever levels of methane in the course of its mission on Mars, an exciting discovery because the gas

Three astronauts back on Earth from space station

The crew completed a 204-day mission spanning 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 86.4 million miles

‘Sperm retains viability in outer space’

The human sperm retains its viability within the different gravitational conditions found in outer space, a study, performed using a small aerobatic

‘Tenure track system will force new faculty to pursue short-term research goals’

MoHRD’s move towards tenure track system draws divergent views, significant concerns

IIT Madras: Decoding the physical, chemical nature of ancient plasterwork

Researchers from IIT-Madras have uncovered the microstructure of the binding material used in plasterwork from the 13th to the 16th century

Bengaluru-based space start-up Bellatrix raises ₹21 crore

Bengaluru-based space launches start-up Bellatrix Aerospace said it has raised $3 million (around ₹21 crore) in initial or 'pre-series A' round from a

ILS develops antibodies against Chikungunya infection

Helps unravel virus pathogenesis; institute will partner with a biotech company for product commercialisation

Brain likes information the same way as money

Treats information as its own reward

Plants may be spreading superbugs to humans

Spell threat to global public health.

Device to trap ocean plastic waste relaunches

A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in a second attempt to clean up an island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean

Remotely sensed indices unreliable in informing elephant forage

Grass abundance, which indicates elephant fodder, tends to be low in locations with dense canopy cover

Bhubaneswar becomes 0.5 degree C hotter due to urbanisation

Cuttack and Bhubaneswar have seen the most incresase in local temperature while warming in rural areas is less

IIT Guwahati uses water-repelling cotton for sustained drug release

Duration of drug release can be tuned by varying the water-repelling property of cotton

Why did woolly rhino, mammoth go extinct?

Yak dung analysis helped to map out the different plants and trees in the area

E-tattoo monitors heart health

A much greater insight into heart health by the synchronous collection of data from both electrocardiogram and seismocardiography.

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of immune cells and gas giants

Who lends his name to the unit of magnetic flux density? Who coined the term Paleolithic Age? For answers, and more interesting questions, take this quiz, and snack on science.

Japan’s ‘washi’ paper torn by modern life; struggles to attract customers

Despite its UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage tag, the artefact’s market value is dwindling

First “song” recorded from rare, lovelorn, right whale off Alaska

Scientists say the crooning could be the mating call of one of the most elusive marine mammals

Einstein’s relativity document gifted to Nobel museum

The paper was written by the scientist in November 1922

Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast since 2000: study

Cold war-era spy satellite images repurposed to study ice loss in 650 glaciers

CSIR-CDRI researchers to correct mistakes in images

30 papers published between 2011 and 2018 found to contain reused or duplicated images

Cancer cell detection ‘dots’ developed from coal in Assam

Costs one-twentieth of imported carbon quantum dots (CQDs).

Chandrayaan-2: Lunar orbiter spacecraft arrives in Sriharikota

Launch of Chandrayaan-2 on July 15

Bitcoin use causing huge CO2 emissions: Study

Bitcoin mining has increased rapidly in recent years, raising the question of whether it is imposing an additional burden on the climate.

What happened to Apollo goodwill moon rocks?

Some adorn museums, others went missing or were stolen

NCRA to host International Pulsar Timing Array meet

The IPTA meet is a collaboration of radio astronomers from a dozen countries across the globe.

G20 agrees to tackle ocean plastic waste

Environment and energy ministers of the Group of 20 major economies met this weekend in Karuizawa, northwest of Tokyo, ahead of the G20 summit in Osaka, western Japan, on June 28-29.

Novel algorithm can help robots prevent colliding with humans

Researchers from MIT created an algorithm that aligns partial trajectories in real-time, allowing motion predictors to accurately anticipate the timing of a person’s motion.

An ode to Mendeleev and his periodic table of elements

The periodic table symbolises the logical cogency, principled rationality of all science

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