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Umesh Prasad

Science journalist | Founder editor, Scientific European magazine
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Would Synthetic Embryos Usher in the Era of Artificial Organs?   

Scientists have replicated the natural process of mammalian embryonic development in the laboratory up to the point of development of brain and heart. Using...

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...

Study of Early Universe: REACH Experiment to detect elusive 21-cm line from Cosmic Hydrogen 

Observation of 26 cm radio signals, formed due to hyperfine transition of cosmic hydrogen offer an alternative tool to the study of early universe....

Climate change and Extreme Heatwaves in the UK: 40°C Recorded for the first time 

Global warming and climate change has led to record heatwaves in the UK posing significant health risks especially to elderly and people with...

Thiomargarita magnifica: The Biggest Bacterium that Challenges the Idea of Prokaryote 

Thiomargarita magnifica, the biggest bacteria have evolved to acquire complexity, becoming of eukaryotic cells. This seems to challenge the traditional idea of a prokaryote. It...

James Webb’s Ultra Deep Field Observations: Two Research Teams to Study Earliest Galaxies  

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the space observatory designed to conduct infrared astronomy and launched successfully on 25 December 2021 will enable two research...

Stem Cell Models of Diseases: First Model of Albinism Developed

Scientists have developed the first patient-derived stem cell model of albinism. The model will help studying eye conditions related to oculocutaneous albinism (OCA).   Stem cells...

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) of ISRO: New Insight into Prediction of Solar Activity

The researchers have studied the turbulence in Sun’s corona using radio signals sent to Earth by the ultra-low-cost Mars orbiter when the Earth and...

SARS-CoV-2: How Serious is B.1.1.529 variant, now named Omicron

The B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24th November 2021. The first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen...

Discovery of Interior Earth Mineral, Davemaoite (CaSiO3-perovskite) on Earth’s surface

The mineral Davemaoite (CaSiO3-perovskite, the third most abundant mineral in lower mantle layer of Earth’s interior) has been discovered on the surface of the Earth for the...

Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Quality are not Two Separate Problems

Climate change as a result of global warming attributed to excessive greenhouse emissions in the atmosphere is a serious threat to the societies across the...

What are we ultimately made up of? What are the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe?

Ancient people thought we are made up of four ‘elements’ - water, earth, fire and air; which we now know are not elements. Presently,...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): The First Space Observatory Dedicated to the Study of Early Universe

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will specialise exclusively in infrared astronomy to study early universe. It will search for optical/infrared signals from the early...

Iboxamycin (IBX): a Synthetic Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic to address Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)

Development of multi-drug resistance (MDR) bacteria in the past five decades have led to increasing research in search of a drug candidate to address this AMR...

Fluvoxamine: Anti-depressant can Prevent Hospitalisation and COVID death

Fluvoxamine is an inexpensive anti-depressant commonly used in mental healthcare. Evidence from the recently concluded clinical trial suggest that it can be repurposed to treat...

Chinchorro Culture: Mankind’s Oldest Artificial Mummification

The oldest evidence of artificial mummification in the world comes from pre-historic Chinchorro culture of South America (in present Northern Chile) which is older than Egyptian by about two...

Discovery of the first Exoplanet Candidate outside our Home Galaxy Milky Way

Discovery of the first exoplanet candidate in X-ray binary M51-ULS-1 in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), also called the Whirlpool Galaxy using transit technique by observing dips...

Variants of Coronavirus: What We Know So Far

Coronaviruses are RNA viruses belonging to coronaviridae family. These viruses display remarkably high rates of errors during replication due to lack of proofreading nuclease activity of their polymerases....
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Second malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M recommended by WHO

A new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M has been recommended by the...

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2023 for the discovery and synthesis of Quantum dots  

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded...

Antimatter is influenced by gravity in the same way as matter 

Matter is subject to gravitational attraction. Einstein’s general relativity...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission brings sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth  

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, launched seven...

First Detection of Oxygen 28 & Standard shell-model of nuclear structure   

Oxygen-28 (28O), the heaviest rare isotope of oxygen has...

Kākāpō Parrot: Genomic sequencing benefits Conservation programme

Kākāpō parrot (also known as “owl parrot” because of...

Lunar Race 2.0: What drive renewed interests in moon missions?  

 Between 1958 and 1978, USA and former USSR sent...

Lunar Race: India’s Chandrayaan 3 achieves Soft-landing capability  

India’s lunar lander Vikram (with rover Pragyan) of Chandrayaan-3...

Wearable device communicates with biological systems to control gene expression 

Wearable devices have become prevalent and are increasingly gaining...