Our Science Desk Hyderabad: Could common viral infections leave behind molecular changes that, years later, contribute to neurodegenerative diseases? Emerging research has suggested a possible association between infections such as influenza and COVID-19 and an increased risk of conditions including Parkinson’s disease. However, the molecular mechanisms behind such a link have remained poorly understood. A…
New Delhi: ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI)-led researchers have produced a healthy female calf of the Badri cattle breed using in vitro fertilization technology, in an effort to preserve and multiply a native breed found in Uttarakhand, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday. The calf was born on September 11 at an academic dairy farm…
Science Correspondent The United States may not be preparing to plant weapons on the Moon, but there is little doubt that Washington under President Donald Trump is preparing for something much bigger: establishing American strategic superiority across the Earth-Moon system. That distinction matters. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, ratified by the United States, prohibits placing…
Cambridge: Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to happen. The painting holds you, even though observers might struggle to say why. Maybe it is the colour, the balance, the composition, or the strange stillness the artwork seems to carry. Whatever it is, you feel it long before…
Our S&T Desk Hyderabad: Ananth Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (ATL) has made significant contributions to India’s space programme through the supply of critical avionics, electronics and spacecraft subsystems for the GSLV-F17 launch vehicle and the EOS-05 (GISAT-1A) Earth observation spacecraft. The Hyderabad-headquartered company supplied 28 avionics packages for the GSLV-F17 launch vehicle, covering critical functions such…
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): ISRO’s advanced Earth observation spacecraft, India’s first-ever imaging satellite in geo-orbit, was successfully launched from the spaceport here on Friday by a GSLV rocket. The EOS-05 satellite was successfully placed in the intended sub-geosynchronous transfer orbit, about 18 minutes after it lifted off from the spaceport here, ISRO announced. “The eye in…
Sydney: In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed something strange: the distant reaches of the universe are filled with “little red dots” that astronomers still can’t quite explain. But a new paper I coauthored, published today in Nature Astronomy, might have found the key to understanding their nature. It turns out these little red…
Hyderabad: In a significant scientific breakthrough, researchers at the CSIR–Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, have uncovered a previously unknown biological mechanism that helps one of the world’s deadliest fungal pathogens transform itself into a form capable of surviving the human immune system and eventually invading the brain. The discovery, the result of…
Washington: Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot ran out of time to replace the space-to-ground antenna of the International Space Station (ISS) during a spacewalk, with the task now set for a future date. The two astronauts managed to remove the failed antenna and stow it away in their six-hour-23-minute space walk that began at…
New Delhi: Globally, about 34.4 million additional doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and pharmacists are needed to achieve moderate universal health coverage, with the largest shortages in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, a global study published in The Lancet Public Health journal has estimated. India has a ratio of about 73 health workers per 10,000 population…
