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.

Lecanemab for Early Alzheimer’s Disease approved in the UK but refused in EU 

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...

Why the Mini-fridge-sized “Cold Atom Lab (CAL)” orbiting Earth aboard ISS is Significant for Science  

Matter has dual nature; everything exists both as particle and wave. At a temperature close to absolute zero, the wave nature of atoms become...

Mpox Disease: The Antiviral Tecovirimat (TPOXX) Found Ineffective in Clinical Trial

The monkeypox virus (MPXV), called so because of its first discovery in monkeys kept in research facility in Denmark, is closely related to variola...

Early Universe: The Most Distant Galaxy “JADES-GS-z14-0″ Challenges Galaxy Formation Models  

Spectral analysis of luminous galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 based on observations made in January 2024 revealed a redshift of 14.32 which makes it the most distant...

How a Supernova Observed over Eight Centuries ago is Changing Our Understanding

Supernova SN 1181 was seen with the naked eye in Japan and Chine 843 years ago in 1181 CE. However, its remanent could not...

Aurora Forms: “Polar Rain Aurora” Detected from the Ground for the First Time  

The gigantic uniform aurora seen from the ground on the Christmas night of 2022 has been confirmed to be polar rain aurora. This was...

Science of “Fifth State of Matter”: Molecular Bose–Einstein Condensate (BEC) Achieved   

In a recently published report, the Will Lab team of Columbia University reports success in crossing in BEC threshold and creation of Bose-Eienstein condensate...

First Detection of Secondary Atmosphere around an Exoplanet  

A study involving measurements by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that the exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a secondary atmosphere outgassed by magma...

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