Umesh Prasad

Umesh Prasad is founder editor of "Scientific European". He has a varied academic background in science and has worked as clinician and teacher in various capacities for many years. He is a multi-faceted person with a natural flair for communicating recent advancements and new ideas in science. Towards his mission to bring scientific research to the doorstep of common people in their native languages, he founded “Scientific European”, this novel multi-lingual, open access digital platform that enables non-English speakers to access and read the latest in science in their native languages as well, for easy comprehension, appreciation and inspiration.

Future Circular Collider (FCC): CERN Council reviews Feasibility Study

The quest for the answers to the open questions (such as, which fundamental particles make dark matter, why matter dominates the universe and why there is matter-antimatter asymmetry, what is force...

Chernobyl Fungi as Shield Against Cosmic Rays for Deep-Space Missions 

In 1986, the 4th unit of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (erstwhile Soviet Union) suffered massive fire and steam explosion. The unprecedented accident released over 5% of the radioactive...

Myopia Control in Children: Essilor Stellest Eyeglass Lenses Authorised  

Myopia (or near-sightedness) in children is a highly prevalent vision condition. It is estimated that the worldwide prevalence will reach about 50% by the...

Dark Matter in the Centre of our Home Galaxy 

Fermi telescope made clean observation of excess γ-ray emission at the centre of our home galaxy which appeared non-spherical and flattened. Referred as Galactic...

Lead Poisoning in Food from certain Aluminium and Brass Cookware 

Test result has shown that certain aluminum and brass cookware leach significant levels of lead (Pb) from the cookware used for cooking into food....

NISAR: The New Radar in Space for Precision Mapping of Earth  

NISAR (acronym for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or NASA-ISRO SAR), a joint collaborative mission of NASA and ISRO, was successfully launched into space on...

Effect of Atmospheric Dust on Ice Cloud Formation Confirmed

It is known that the proportion of ice-topped clouds depends on dust particles in the cloud that act as nuclei for ice crystal formation....

Hexanitrogen (N6): A New Neutral Allotrope of Nitrogen

N2 is only known neutral and stable structural form (allotrope) of nitrogen. Synthesis of neutral N3 and N4 were reported earlier but could not...

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