Umesh Prasad

Umesh Prasad is a researcher-communicator who excels at synthesizing peer-reviewed primary studies into concise, insightful, and well-sourced public articles. A specialist in knowledge translation, he is driven by a mission to make science inclusive for non-English speaking audiences. Toward this goal, he founded “Scientific European,” this innovative, multilingual, open-access digital platform. By addressing a critical gap in global science dissemination, Prasad acts as a key knowledge curator whose work represents a sophisticated new era of scholarly journalism, bringing the latest research to the doorstep of common people in their native languages.

Mass Extinctions in the history of Life: Significance of NASA’s Artemis Moon and Planetary Defence DART Missions  

Evolution and extinction of new species have gone hand in hand since life began on Earth. However, there have been at least five episodes...

Extinct Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) to be Resurrected   

Ever changing environment leads to extinction of the animals unfit to survive in the changed environment and favours survival of the fittest which culminate in...

How Lipid Analyses Unravel Ancient Food Habits and Culinary Practices

Chromatography and compound specific isotope analysis of lipid remains in ancient pottery tell a lot about ancient food habits and culinary practices. In the...

Spikevax Bivalent Original/Omicron Booster Vaccine: First Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine receives MHRA approval  

Spikevax Bivalent Original/Omicron Booster Vaccine, the first bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine developed by Moderna has received MHRA approval. Unlike the Spikevax Original, the bivalent version...

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) variants given new names 

On 08 August 2022, the expert group of WHO arrived at consensus on nomenclature of known and new monkeypox virus (MPXV) variants or clades....

Artemis Moon Mission: Towards Deep Space Human Habitation 

Half a century after iconic Apollo Missions which allowed twelve men to walk on the Moon between 1968 and 1972, NASA is set to embark...

The Novel Langya virus (LayV) identified in China  

Two henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and the Nipah virus (NiV) are already known to cause fatal disease in humans. Now, a novel henipavirus has...

The Moon’s Atmosphere: Ionosphere has high Plasma Density  

One of the most beautiful things about mother Earth is presence of an atmosphere. Life on Earth would not have been possible without the...

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