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PHYSICS

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

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

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

Umesh Prasad -
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...
MEDICINE

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

Umesh Prasad -
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...
COVID-19

Fluvoxamine: Anti-depressant can Prevent Hospitalisation and COVID death

Umesh Prasad -
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...
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Chinchorro Culture: Mankind’s Oldest Artificial Mummification

Umesh Prasad -
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...
ASTRONOMY & SPACE SCIENCE

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

Umesh Prasad -
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...
COVID-19

Variants of Coronavirus: What We Know So Far

Umesh Prasad -
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....
COVID-19

2-Deoxy-D-Glucose(2-DG): A Potentially Suitable anti-COVID-19 drug

Umesh Prasad and Rajeev Soni -
2-Deoxy-D-Glucose(2-DG), a glucose analog that inhibits glycolysis, has recently received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in India for the treatment of moderate to severe COVID-19 patients....
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