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A fossil skull of Little Foot is seen in this undated handout photo, obtained by Reuters on March 1, 2021.

Painstaking study of 'Little Foot' fossil sheds light on human origins

The researchers spotted defects in the tooth enamel indicative of two childhood bouts of physiological stress such as disease or malnutrition.

A woman walks her dog along the beach as the sun rises at New Brighton, Britain, March 1, 2021.

At least 1,500 Britons killed by climate change-fuelled heat this century

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Climate extremes seen harming unborn babies in Brazil's Amazon

Reuters The study said the “long-term political neglect of provincial Amazonia” and “uneven development in Brazil” needed to be addressed to tackle the “double burden” of climate change and health inequalities

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover's onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam), which is located high on the rover's mast and aids in driving, shows the surrounding area on Mars in an image acquired February 22, 2021.

Perseverance rover's exciting work to happen in coming weeks: NASA's Vishnu Sridhar

PTI Sridhar is a lead system engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California for SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is on a mission to search for signs of past life on the Red Planet.

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Ninjatitan zapatai. Illustration: Paleoartist Jorge González. Credit: Twitter/@emanuel_pujol

Argentine titanosaur could be the oldest ever found: study

AFP Titanosaurs were members of the sauropod group

The Soyuz spacecraft with the Arktika-M satellite for monitoring the climate and environment in the Arctic, blasts off from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan February 28, 2021.

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic

Reuters The satellite will also be able to retransmit distress signals from ships, aircraft or people in remote areas as part of the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite-based search and rescue programme, Roscosmos said.

Indian Space Research Organisation launches the Amazonia-1, Brazil’s optical earth observation satellite, and 18 co-passenger satellites from U.S. and India on board the PSLV-C51 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on February 28, 2021.

ISRO successfully places earth observation, 18 other satellites into orbit

T.K. Rohit Amazonia-1, the primary satellite, is expected to be injected into orbit about 18 minutes after lift-off

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ZSI documents another new snake eel species in Odisha

Novel Chinese coronavirus may have ‘jumped’ to humans from snakes: Study

Watch | Vyommitra, ISRO's newly introduced half-humanoid

Climatic fluctuations impact climatic niches of owlets

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

TNQ Distinguished Lectures: Science doesn’t stop because you have got a big award, says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Meet Vyommitra, first Indian ‘woman’ to ride to space

The half-humanoid will simulate human functions before real astronauts take off.

Different strategies needed to conserve lion-tailed, bonnet macaques, says study

Governmental policy mainly includes stopping encroachment into lion-tailed macaque habitats, and controlling hunting, road-kills and electrocution.

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A video on the new Coronavirus outbreak in China

Gaganyaan, space station will pave way for continuous Indian presence in space: ISRO chief

“New science will emerge from Gaganyaan and enhance our science and technology capabilities,” says K. Sivan.

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

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.

India, co-builder of Hawaii telescope, wants it shifted out of proposed site

The $2 billion project , a joint venture involving five countries, has been marred by protests for over a decade; proposed site is considered sacred to the island’s indigenous people.

India in talks to be part of East Asian Observatories Consortium

It helps pool resources in throwing light on cosmic phenomena

Australia’s iconic platypus under threat from climate change: study

The platypus is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.

Feathers grew differently on dinosaurs and birds

A fossil of a fierce little Chinese dinosaur dubbed the “dancing dragon” that lived 120 million years ago is showing scientists that feathers grew

Question Corner: Geometry of lines

Why do two parallel lines appear to meet at an infinite distance?Kabir H. BiswasCollege of Health &Life SciencesHamad Bin Khalifa UniversityDoha,

TB diagnostic test developed in India has high accuracy, says WHO

Truenat can be used as an initial tool for diagnosing TB at primary, community health centres

IIT Bombay efficiently removes heavy metals from water

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

Stray dogs may have a natural ability to understand human gestures

Stray dogs have the natural ability to understand human gestures, and respond to some cues better than the others, according to a study which may

Eastern Ghats: land use policies, climate change hit endemic plant habitats

The region has over 450 endemic plant species, yet remains degraded

Quiz: This week, it’s all about physics units named after people

A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley

Science flourishes when people are free to question authority, says Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

India has a secular Constitution, and it’s not clear that having a religious criteria for a particular law is going to hold up in courts, he says

Tuberculosis control programme renamed, to focus on elimination

It is no longer known as the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP), and has been rechristened as the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme

TB diagnostic test developed in India has high accuracy, says WHO

Truenat can be used as an initial and point-of-care tool at primary, community health centres

Four astronauts selected for Gaganyaan to get 11-month training in Russia

The aqstronauts’ training in Russia will start from the third week of January, said Union Minister Jitendra Singh

Journal 'Nature' denounces violence inside university campuses

This is the first time a scientific journal has denounced the violent attacks on students protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act

A new virus emerges in China

A novel coronavirus has been identified in 41 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China

Oldest material on Earth found inside meteorite that hit Australia

The oldest of 40 tiny dust grains trapped inside the meteorite fragments dated from about 7 billion years ago, about 2.5 billion years before the sun, Earth and rest of our solar system formed

Ariane rocket to launch ISRO’s GSAT-30 satellite on January 17

With a mission life of 15 years, GSAT-30 is an operational communication satellite for DTH, television uplink and VSAT services

Will the sequencing of the Indian cobra genome help in discovering broad-based antivenoms?

The Indian cobra, the common krait, Russell’s viper, and the saw-scaled viper have long been considered responsible for most snake bites on the Indian subcontinent.

Investigation into papers with problematic images complete, report submitted: CSIR director-general

The committee was formed in response to an article written in The Hindu about 130 scientific papers that had problems with images.

New method better estimates melting of debris-covered Himalayan glaciers

The debris partially insulates the glacier from the warm exterior thereby slowing down the melting

IIT-M designs room temperature sodium sulphur battery

The battery was able to achieve higher charge storage capacity and nearly zero self-discharge when not in use

Species-rich forests offer stable carbon capture

Teak, eucalyptus plantations had 43% and 55% less carbon storage than natural forests, respectively

India should lead in the fight against multidrug-resistant pathogens

India is already the major vaccine provider for children across the world

NCBS Archives tells stories of how science blossomed here

Letters, photographs, old instruments and notebooks are among 50,000 objects at the Archives

Indian-American among NASA’s new astronauts; all set to conquer Moon, Mars

The astronauts will receive a gold pin once they complete their first spaceflights.

NASA discovers Earth-sized exoplanet in habitable zone

The star lies in the TESS continuous viewing zone in the Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere.

Watch | Olive Ridley turtles mate at Rushikulya

A video featuring the 'large crowd mating' of Olive Ridley turtles on the Odisha coast

LIGO team detects second merger of two neutron stars

The total mass of the system is so high it suggests an unusual formation process for the binary

Genome of Indian cobra sequenced

Could lead to production of more effective anti-venom, say scientists

Serum’s pneumococcal vaccine, once approved, could be cheaper option in the private market

Indian trial data of phase-3 has been submitted recently and approval from Drugs Controller General of India might not take long

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

Astronauts can be fully and continuously in touch with mission control throughout their travel

Massive black holes found in dwarf galaxies

A study found 13 massive black holes, about 4,00,000 times as heavy as the Sun, in dwarf galaxies which are more than 100 times smaller than our own Milky Way

Challakere to be ISRO’s astronaut training hub

Plan ready for Space Flight Centre to come up at site in Karnataka’s Chitradurga

In a first, astronaut with blood clot treated by doctors on Earth

This could be critical for the health of astronauts during future space exploration missions to the moon and Mars

Contrasting water-wetting behaviour used for anti-counterfeiting measure

The smart interface embedded with two water wettabilities can hide or reveal information

How humans affect genetic connectivity of four mammals

Four wide-ranging mammals — jungle cats, leopards, sloth bears and tigers — were studied in central India

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