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ZSI documents another new snake eel species in Odisha

This is the eighth species of the Ophichthus genus found on the Indian coast, and the fifth new species discovered by the Gopalpur-on-Sea centre in the last two years

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A baby Spotted Owlet rests on a tree, on a rainy day, at the Biodiversity Park in RCD Hospital, Visakhapatnam.

Climatic fluctuations impact climatic niches of owlets

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

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

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

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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

Special Correspondent Nobel winner delivers talk as part of the 10th edition of the TNQ Distinguished Lectures in the Life Sciences 2020.

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

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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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IIT Bombay’s bacteria preferentially degrade aromatic compounds

Kerala forests home to new spider species

SPL, a major player in ISRO endeavours, reaches a milestone

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of ignition temperature, electrical resistivity and the photosphere

About 200 scientists come together to make an appeal to voters

Hyderabad-based OMICS fined $50 million for ‘unfair, deceptive business practices’

Study shows tiny black holes may not account for dark matter as stated by Stephen Hawking

For a whole night, the research team took 190 consecutive images of Andromeda galaxy

Enzyme to arrest bacteria cell growth discovered

It opens up fresh ways to target microbes, leading to a new wave of antibiotic drugs

India space debris may have doubled after Mission Shakti

NASA warns of risk to International Space Station

Starting May, ISRO to launch a string of ‘defence’ satellites

Launches of some earth observation satellites advanced

Groundwater system still exists on Mars: Study

The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggests that groundwater might be deeper than previously thought in areas where such streams are observed on Mars.

India's ASAT missile test created 400 pieces of debris, endangering ISS: NASA

But the risk will dissipate over time as much of the debris will burn up as it enters the atmosphere.

India gets surveillance satellite

PSLV-C45 successfully puts 28 other satellites too in orbit

Spider research yet to pick up pace in India, say experts

Less encouragement to study the nitty-gritty and poor awareness are hurdles; last major research conducted between 1990s, 2000s

NASA’s Mars helicopter completes flight tests

NASA’s Mars Helicopter, designed to fly in thin atmosphere and low gravity, has successfully completed flight tests and is prepared for its journey to

PSLV to launch military’s monitor in the sky

First electronic intelligence satellite to locate hostile radars will go into orbit

Nanomagnet assembly to make up efficient logic gate

These solutions can complement CMOS devices

IIT Madras converts petroleum waste toluene into useful product

A green oxidant and water instead of organic acid were used for converting toluene into benzoic acid

Take a deep breath to be calm and alert

That ‘sniffing’ or breathing-in drives brain activity has an evolutionary history

Climate change may hit India’s wind power

Potential electricity production has reduced by about 13% in the past 40 years

Camera traps reveal secret lives of rarely studied small cats

The team obtained 783 photo captures from around 27,500 trap nights between 2013 and 2018

The Sunday Quiz: This week, it's all about open-source software

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

A trip through the fossil-rich grounds of Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu

For about 70km around Ariyalur is a wealth of natural history that few people know about

Humans can detect the earth’s magnetic fields

But they are yet to decode what our brains may be using this information for.

Indian ASAT a responsible deterrent, say experts

The target satellite is believed to be Microsat-R, which was put in an unusually low orbit of around 274 km in January.

All-women spacewalk nixed over ill-fitting suit

McClain will give up her place to male colleague Nick Hague

NASA’s historic all-women spacewalk scrapped due to lack of fitting spacesuits

NASA’s plan to conduct the first all-female spacewalk this month had to be scrapped after the crew aboard the International Space Station encountered

Hubble Space Telescope captures birth of giant storm on Neptune

The finding may reveal insights on the inner workings of the poorly-understood ice giant planets, NASA says

‘Chandrayaan 2 will carry NASA’s laser instruments to Moon’

During the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held at Texas, US last week, NASA confirmed that Chandrayaan 2 and Israeli lander Beresheet, due to touch down April 11, will each carry NASA-owned laser retroreflector arrays.

Ooty’s muon detection facility measures potential of thundercloud

At 1.3 gigavolts, this cloud had ten times higher potential than the previous record in a cloud

IIT Guwahati’s bone graft aids extensive bone formation

In 90 days, the silk fibre completely degraded leaving behind a homogeneous bone in rabbits

End stigma and discrimination to end TB

The years 2018 and 2019 have been landmark years in the fight against TB

Protected areas matter to bumphead parrotfish

Study finds low densities of the fish in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Scientists study biochemical blood parameters of Indian adolescents

Normative range described in paper published in PLOS ONE

Monkey birth a step to saving fertility of boys with cancer

Scientists are closing in on a way to help young boys undergoing cancer treatment preserve their future fertility and the proof is the first monkey

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of bacteria and other microorganisms

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Integrate TB services with primary health system: Lancet

8 million lives could be saved with subsidised tests, support

China clones ‘Sherlock Holmes’ dog

It hopes that ‘volume production’ of cloned police canines will reduce training time

NASA to send helicopter to Mars

NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. According to NASA, "the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020

In a first, woman bags Abel Prize for maths

Karen Uhlenbeck pioneered in geometric analysis, gauge theory

Central University of Kerala faculty urged to discourage irrelevant research

Central varsity circular causes a flutter

A gel to selectively remove oil or water

IIT Guwahati’s material can switch from being water-repelling to oil-repelling and vice versa

Topical gel protects farmers from pesticides

Found to cleave pesticides, reducing pesticide-induced enzyme inhibition

Solar tsunami can trigger the sunspot cycle

According to the model, the next sunspot cycle can be expected to begin in 2020

The lost tail that wags research tales

How and why does a lizard regenerate its tail while a cat cannot?

The Sunday Quiz: This week, it's all about space exploration

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

Neolithic diet helped develop ‘f’ sound

Language was shaped by culturally induced changes in human biology, say researchers

Hip-hop best bet for a cheese that will please: Swiss study

Flavours change when round-the-clock music is played

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