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.

How Far Human Civilisation is Detectable in Space 

Earth’s most detectable techno-signatures are the planetary radar transmissions from the erstwhile Arecibo Observatory. The Arecibo message could be detected up to about 12,000...

New Observation of Colourful Twilight Clouds on Mars  

Curiosity rover has captured new images of colourful twilight clouds in the atmosphere of Mars. Called iridescence, this phenomenon is caused due to scattering of light...

Early Solar System had Widespread Ingredients for Life

The asteroid Bennu is an ancient carbonaceous asteroid that has rocks and dusts from the birth of the solar system. It was thought that...

Fusion Energy: EAST Tokamak in China achieves Key Milestone

Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China has successfully maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds breaking its own earlier record of...

Pandemic Potential of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) Outbreaks 

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 Dinosaur Trackways Discovered in Oxfordshire

Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around...

“Parker Solar Probe” Survives Closest Encounter to Sun  

Parker solar probe has sent signal to Earth today on 27 December 2024 confirming its safety following its closest approach to Sun on 24...

“Horizontal Gene Transfers” between fungi led to Outbreaks of “Coffee Wilt Disease” 

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...

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