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A nurse tears up as she talks about the situation in Jinyintan Hospital, designated for critical COVID-19 patients, in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province on February 13, 2020.

Lancet retracts letter about the plight of nurses treating COVID-19 patients

: On February 26, The Lancet Global Health retracted a letter by two nurses from Guangzhou province just two days after it was published in the

President Ram Nath Kovind presents the National Award to Deepak Sharma, a science teacher in NAS Inter College, Meerut, for outstanding efforts in science & technology popularisation among children during National Science Day function in New Delhi, on Friday, Feb 28, 2020.

Only 15% R&D workforce are women: President Kovind

This February 29, take a look at all things scientific at IISc

Sravasti Datta From live demos and quizzes to lectures and posters — all departments of the Indian Institute of Science present many activities to engage with the public on their Open Day on February 29. National Centre for Biological Sciences presents Science Cafe this week

This handout illustration image obtained on February 27, 2020 courtesy of the National Institutes of Health taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Explained | Why WHO will not declare SARS-CoV-2 a pandemic now

R. Prasad Globally, there are 82,549 cases and 2,810 deaths as on February 27.

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An archaeological excavation carried out in the trenches at Dhaba in the upper Son river valley located in Central India finds evidence of human occupation in this area nearly 80,000 years back.

Early humans lived in northern India 80,000 years ago

Shubashree Desikan This finding is important in the face of competing theories on the first presence of human populations in different regions of the world and on human dispersal from Africa.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health, U.S., have produced a 3D atomic scale map of the protein of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that binds to and infects human cells.

In a boost to vaccine development, structure of SARS-CoV-2 key protein mapped

R. Prasad This will allow better understanding of how the virus binds to the human cells.

Himalayan wolves with hypoxia adaptation are separate species

R. Prasad Himalayan wolves, also called as Tibetan wolves, which live at more than 4,000 metres altitudes are genetically distinct from grey wolves, according to a study published in the Journal of Biogeography. The divergence of Himalayan wolves relates to past uplift of the region, the authors of the paper note.Living at such high altitudes, these wolves have genetically adapted themselves to live in low oxygen (hypoxic) conditions. While effective oxygen availability at sea level is nearly 22%, at

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IISc researchers unravel how Salmonella bacteria infect tomato plants

Older adults more likely to share fake news: Study

Hubble’s most advanced camera shut down: NASA

Why some snakes are deadlier than others decoded

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Talks at ISC need to be vetted by serious committees: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Atish Dabholkar calls for law against superstition

NASA’s probe discovers a new planet

HD 21749b orbits a dwarf start about 53 light years away in the constellation of Reticulum

Science of development

Students from schools and colleges as well as several science and technology companies demonstrated the basic concepts of science at the Science Fair brought to the city by Coimbatore Vizha

IIT Madras team produces gas hydrates under ‘space’ conditions

IIT Madras team achieve rare feat

The expanse of singularity

As January 8 marks the late Stephen Hawking’s birthday, we unravel one of his most famed space-time theories — singularity

Indian Science Congress: Principal Scientific Adviser wants complaint lodged against VC's pseudoscience talk

VijayRaghavan, a biologist and a former Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology, listed out examples of how pseudoscience, when it made its way into policy, has caused harm.

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of the Great Dying, Earth's worst mass extinction ever

Fun facts or complex puzzles, science contains mysteries ranging from the minute to the magnificent. Taste science! Take this quiz!

Dark matter can be moved around: study

In a first, scientists have found evidence that the mysterious dark matter — believed to make up most of the mass of the universe — can be heated up

ISS crew could grow beans in 2021

The food grown in space could be crucial to sustain the astronauts in future deep space missions

Scientists boost plant yield by 40%

They have found a way to make the process of photosynthesis inherently more efficient

Detecting ultralow levels of mercury in water

The sensor has high sensitivity and selectivity

Silver atoms of nanoparticles are mobile, IIT Madras team finds

The rapid exchange of silver atoms in solution might have implications in real-life situations

Carbon microneedles: Low-cost, painless injections

Even after 15 insertions, the patch and needles remained intact

Scientists unearth Asia's first fossil Dioscorea yam leaf

Leaf fossil could hint at Gondwanan origin of these plants

Molecular mechanism of prostate cancer subtype unravelled

It will help in the treatment, disease management of several SPINK1-positive tumours

Lunar rover named as ‘Yutu 2’

It will carry out a string of experiments on the unexplored far side of the moon

‘Varsities in States must do research,’ says PM Modi at Indian Science Congress

“95% of our students go to State universities and colleges"

This self-powered ‘magic carpet’ wraps, flaps and creeps

Inspired by the magic carpet featured in the folk tale of ‘Aladdin’, researchers have designed a two-dimensional, shape-changing sheet that moves

China's probe to the other side of the moon

China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover scripted history on January 3 when it made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon and sent back

First close-ups of Ultima Thule reveal it resembles reddish snowman: NASA

The two spheres likely joined as early as 99% of the way back to the formation of the solar system, colliding no faster than two cars in a fender-bender.

China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover lands on moon’s far side, sends back images

The scientific tasks of the Chang’e-4 mission include surveying the terrain and landforms, detecting the mineral composition and shallow lunar surface structure

Watch | Quadrantids meteor shower likely in Delhi

The Quadrantids meteor shower will peak on the night between January 3 and 4The Quadrantids can be seen from across Europe and if fog and haze do not

Migratory starlings put on spectacular performance over Israeli desert

The starlings find safety in numbers and their swirling movements confuse predators.

All You Need to Know About the New Horizons Mission and Ultima Thule

Hurtling through space at a speed of 51,500 km per hour, the New Horizons spacecraft has made its closest approach within 3,500 km of the surface of

NASA spacecraft breaks record for smallest space object ever orbited

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a record after successfully entering into orbit around the asteroid Bennu – the smallest cosmic object ever to be

NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed

But if all goes well, the first images should be in hand by the end of New Year’s Day.

Here's a list of species discovered in India this year

It's curtains down on 2018 and here are some of the species that were discovered in India this year.

Space probe nears dark side of moon

Chang’e-4 is preparing to make a soft-landing, says Xinhua

The Hindu's most-read science stories in 2018

Here are the top 10 science stories from The Hindu that our readers loved.

ISRO readies for a busy 2019

Calendar dotted with 32 new missions

Here's what Indian scientists achieved in 2018

Here is a collection of 15 stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

IIT Bombay proposes innovative spintronics device that borrows from optics

The device can drastically improve standards of computing hardware, electronics

Delhi researchers develop an algorithm to detect rare cells

Rare cell populations such as circulating tumour cells can shed light on process of cancer metastasis

Odd and end: Water from air

Where water is scarce, it is difficult to transport and store it. Researchers from Ohio State University in the US have come up with a novel way to

On the tracks of the Earth’s mantle helium

Its source unknown, the mantle escapes in lava plumes

On the cosmic ray trail in Tirunelveli

Equatorial Geophysical Research Laboratory has been monitoring the Earth’s near-space environment for over 25 years

India will see two eclipses in 2019

Astronomy enthusiasts and skygazers will be able to experience five eclipses in 2019, two of which will be visible in India.The year will start with a

Fire in ISRO’s Ahmedabad campus storeroom

A fire broke out on Friday morning in a storeroom of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad, an

Bees can count with four brain cells: study

They closely inspect items

A ward-level solution to plastic waste

IIT-M team’s solar-powered pyrolysis unit is easily transportable

Scientists ‘sew’ with just sound waves

System can be used to acoustically stitch up internal injuries

Watch: How a volcanic eruption causes a tsunami

A tsunami killed more than 200 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide believed to

Stem cell shots linked to bacterial infection outbreak

Five different germs were seen in the patients, including one type of E. coli

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