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.

Neanderthals Performed Dental Caries Interventions 59,000 Years Ago

Prehistoric dentistry is far older than 14,000 years as indicated by Villabruna specimen from Late Upper Palaeolithic era. A recent study on 59,000-year-old Neanderthal...

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI): Towards Humans’ Merger with AI 

The ongoing clinical trials of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) such as Neuralink’s “Telepathy” implant involve establishing communication links between the brains of participants who have unmet medical needs due...

Tumour Treating Fields (TTFields) approved for Pancreatic cancer

Cancer cells have electrically charged parts hence are influenced by electric fields. Application of alternating electric fields (TTFields) to solid tumours selectively target and...

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....

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