SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Travellers from Dubai, UK contributed maximum COVID-19 importations into India: IIT study

1:12 pm September 27, 2020

New Delhi: Travellers from Dubai and the UK were primary sources of COVID-19 importations into India, according to an analytical study done by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi. According to the research, which has been published in the Journal of Travel Medicine, COVID-19 got induced into Indian states mainly due to international travels. The study has also found that infected cases […]

Bus-size asteroid to zoom by Earth, ducking below satellites

12:14 am September 24, 2020

Cape Canaveral: An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday. The newly discovered asteroid will come within 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometres) of Earth, well below many of the communications satellites orbiting the planet, scientists said this week. The closest approach will occur Thursday […]

Coronavirus, bacteria may work together to increase disease severity in some patients: Study

11:32 am September 16, 2020

Houston: The severity of COVID-19 in people with obesity and diabetes may be explained by the combined effects of the novel coronavirus and the body’s natural community of bacteria — the microbiota — working together in the lungs, according to a new study. The review research, published in the journal eLife, assessed mechanisms linking obesity and […]

Astronomers spot possible signs of microbial life on Venus’s clouds

11:43 pm September 14, 2020

London: Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a rare molecule — phosphine — in the clouds of Venus, a possible hint of microbial life in the atmosphere of our neighbouring planet. On Earth, phosphine gas is only made industrially, or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments, according to the researchers, including those from the Cardiff University in […]

Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia

11:42 pm September 14, 2020

Madisonville: Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and even its nose intact. Previously scientists only had been able to discover the bones of cave bears that became extinct […]