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Targeted protection: The liver fluke peptide provides selective protection to the joints but does not alter the systemic immune system, says Naibedya Chattopadhyay (centre).

New molecule for rheumatoid arthritis may be effective in preventing cartilage destruction

It might prove a game-changer in treating rheumatoid arthritis if further tests and trials find it effective

Many moths, which use tomato and tobacco plants as hosts for their larvae, are already known to hear and react to ultrasound at frequencies emitted by the plants.

Plants emit ultrasonic ‘distress screams’ when stressed

Ancient settlement: Nearly two-thirds of the 1,500 archaeological sites related to the Harappans occur on the dried up banks of the present-day Ghaggar river.

Evidence of river Saraswati’s existence found?

Shubashree Desikan Analysing sand from 3-10 metres below modern Ghaggar, researchers estimate the date and source of the river

Illustration: R. Rajesh

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I hope the next ISRO chief is a woman: Susmita Mohanty

Madhumathi D.S. The founder-CEO of India’s first private space start-up company says privatisation can create thousands of jobs in the space sector

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Comparable: The molecule ‘s efficacy to disrupt biofilm was comparable with the last-resort antibiotic colistin, say Jayanta Haldar (left) and Swagatam Barman.

Tackling drug-resistant A. baumannii

R. Prasad In 2-4 hours the novel molecule killed actively dividing drug-resistant strains

This image taken from video animation provided by NASA, shows flips in the direction of the magnetic field embedded in the solar wind that flows out from the Sun, as detected by the Parker Solar Probe’s FIELDS instrument.

NASA’s probe soaring near sun reveals surprises about solar wind

Reuters One of the probe's “really big surprises”, according to one of the researchers, was the detection of sudden, abrupt spikes in the speed of the solar wind.

Potent combination: TB lesions (white patches) are absent in lungs of mice treated with chloroquin plus isoniazid (left) while these can be seen in the lungs of mice treat with isoniazid alone (right) as indicated by arrows.

Combination therapy using malaria drug quickly clears TB

R. Prasad The treatment led to near-complete clearance of the bacteria from the mice lungs in just two months

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Sea foam at Chennai's Pattinapakkam beach on Friday.

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Low-cost handheld device to help detect bacteria developed

Cost is key: Chinese space firm revs up for reusable rocket race

Cancer stem cells can form blood, lymph vessels within tumours

IIT Madras registers initial success with iron ion battery

Irrigation, agriculture shift rainfall to northwestern India, IIT-B finds

Mapping world’s soil worms

What you need to survive an asteroid crash, according to an astrobiologist

The astrobiologist tells you what you need to survive an asteroid crash

London artisans craft bespoke globes

The handmade artefacts are commissioned by heads of state and top firms

Indian soil may have reached Moon on crashed Israeli lander

An Israeli lunar lander called Beresheet (Hebrew for ‘the beginning’) began its journey to the Moon aboard a SpaceX rocket in its quest to be the first privately-funded spacecraft to land on the Moon.

IIT-M student designs system to recycle urine

Retrofits urinals to collect and process excreta into useful raw materials

Meet the giant parrots that lived 19 million years ago

The flightless birds were at least one metre tall, and weighed up to seven kilograms.

Ocean warming, overfishing increase methylmercury toxin in fish

The researchers warn that human exposure to the toxin through fish consumption is bound to increase as a result of climate change.

Mexico’s cactus offers alternative to plastics

The pulp of the prickly pear is mixed with additives to produce sheets that can be used for packaging.

Exploring life on Mars

Lewis Dartnell says Chandrayaan 2 is significant as it is the first time anyone has landed on the South Pole of the moon

Biotechnology Department will scan 20,000 Indian genomes

Data sets compared by machine learning techniques can predict risk of cancer and other diseases

French inventor crosses the English Channel on a hoverboard

He already holds the Guinness World Record for a 2.2-kilometre trip over the Mediterranean Sea, the farthest hoverboard flight.

Explained | What is India's Deep Ocean Mission

What is the country’s Deep Ocean Mission all about? What are the metals that can be extracted?

Canadian iceberg hunter follows ‘white gold’ in the Atlantic

Chunks of ice are melted and the water sold to local traders who make products for wealthy clients in Europe, Singapore and Dubai.

Infant milk: Nestle’s clinical trial under scanner

ICMR asked to get the trial examined

NCBS study shows how stress can affect fear memory

It may be possible to reverse fear memories that have been abnormally strengthened by severe stress

A step closer to oral administration of kala-azar drug

IIT Hyderabad achieved controlled, sustained drug release for 10 days

Column | On ‘Puppy Dog Eyes’ and how they connect with humans

It is not how the dog looks, but how he ‘puppy looks’ at his owner

Tigers in India face lurking threat from virus

There is heightened risk of disease transfer from dogs to tigers, leopards in Ranthambhore National Park

Chandrayaan 2 successfully undergoes fourth orbit raising manoeuvre

The spacecraft will undergo its final orbit manoeuvre on August 6.

Japan approves growing human organs in animals for first time

Modified embryos are implanted with human cells

Honour for Kolhapur-born theoretical physicist Atish Dabholkar

Atish Dabholkar to lead Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Chandrayaan 2 and every other moon mission mapped

Never before in history has a country even attempted to soft-land an object near the moon‘s South Pole.If all goes well, India’s Chandrayaan-2 will

IIT-H researchers use sugar, salt for carbon catalyst to produce biofuel precursors

The researchers showed their catalyst had better efficiency than commercial catalysts.

IISc. researchers develop protein to kill drug-resistant bacterium

They used a bioinformatics approach to design protein

Japan's Hayabusa-2 completes second touchdown on Asteroid Ryugu

Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe landed successfully Thursday on a distant asteroid for a final touchdown, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on

Chandrayaan 2 moves higher in orbit

The third manoeuvre on the week-old Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander spacecraft pushed it to a planned higher orbit around earth on Monday afternoon.The

World Hepatitis Day: India's monsoon health woes

Viral hepatitis kills approximately 3,50,000 people every year in the southeast Asia region

Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Schrieffer dies in Florida

The scientist shared in the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics for developing a pioneering theory of superconductivity.

Alarming decline in India's vulture population

There has been a sharp decline in the population of vultures in the country which has come down from 40 million to 19,000 in a span of over three

Reversible superglue inspired by snail epiphragm

Snails secrete a mucous film which dries to forms a glassy structure that fixes them to the substrate

IISER Mohali find that zebrafish use landmarks for navigation

The presence of colourful landmarks, visible even in turbid conditions, plays an important role in improving foraging success

IIT Madras: Breath humidity sensors for wearable electronics

It detects ethanol, acetone in oral breath of alcoholics, diabetics, respectively

Bees use complex memory for communication

Waggle run correlates with distance from food site to hive

Predicting pollution levels using oceans’ memory

Patterns like El Nino can help predict weather conditions and pollution, nearly a season in advance

How will our future look like? This video gives us a scientific idea

Time-lapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of TimeA recording of Stephen Hawking’s voice in the middle of the video remarks, “What we do now and

A month before his demise, Kalam advised current DRDO chief to work on reusable missiles

In 2012, the then DRDO Chairman V K Saraswat, in an interview to Doordarshan, said India plans to develop reusable missile system.

Explained | Why are native Hawaiians against the construction of a telescope?

On July 24, the Governor of Hawaii, David Ige, met the protestors at the Mauna Kea summit who have been blocking roads for about 10 days now,

Explained | Why are shark fisheries declining in India?

Recently there has been a drop in the size of the sharks and their numbers.

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ISRO raises Chandrayaan-2 orbit further

Lunar lander craft is working well, says agency

Pakistan to launch its first astronaut in 2022

Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s Minister for Science and Technology, said the selection process of the astronaut for the space mission would start from February 2020.

Chandrayaan-2: GSLV Mark III-M1 vehicle reduces number of orbit-raising exercises, saves fuel

In its maiden operational flight, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle – Mark III-M1 (GSLV Mark III-M1) vehicle used for launching

India’s first dragon blood-oozing tree

Researchers discover Dracaena cambodiana in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong dist.

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