There are reports of outbreaks of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection in many parts of the world. In the backdrop of recent COVID-19 pandemic, hMPV...
Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around...
Fusarium xylarioides, a soil-borne fungus causes “Coffee wilt disease” that has a history of causing significant damages to coffee crops. There were outbreaks of...
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) affects half a million people each year. Levofloxacin is advised for preventive treatment based on observational data, however evidence...
ESA’s PROBA-3 mission, which lifted off on ISRO’s PSLV-XL rocket on 5 December 2024, is a “solar eclipse-making" two satellite formation of occulter and...
A recent study has estimated disease frequency of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections and genital ulcer disease (GUD). The estimates suggest that about 846...
Big Bang produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other leaving behind an empty universe. However, matter survived and...
In the new mid-infrared image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the Sombrero galaxy (technically known as Messier 104 or M104 galaxy) appears...
On October 22, 2024, a surgical team performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant on a 57-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
Forest restoration and tree plantation is a well-established strategy for mitigation of climate change. However, use of this approach in arctic worsens warming and...
Asciminib (Scemblix) has been approved for adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (Ph+ CML) in chronic phase (CP). The accelerated approval...
Particle accelerators are used as research tools for the study of very early universe. Hadron colliders (particularly CERN’s Large Hadron Collider LHC) and electron-positron...
The thylacine de-extinction project announced in 2022 has achieved new milestones in generation of the highest quality ancient genome, marsupial genome editing and new...
NASA has successfully launched Clipper mission to Europa into space on Monday 14 October 2024. Two-way communication has been established with the spacecraft since...
The researchers at CERN have succeeded in observing quantum entanglement between “top quarks” and at the highest energies. This was first reported in September 2023...
UK’s fusion energy production approach took shape with the announcement of STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) programme in 2019. Its first phase (2019-2024)...
BNT116 and LungVax are nucleic acid lung cancer vaccine candidates – the former is based on mRNA technology similar to “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines” such...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) lecanemab and donanemab have been approved for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease in the UK and USA respectively while lecanemab...
