Potential drug target identified for Zika virus
At a time when no vaccines or therapeutic drugs are available against Zika and other diseases caused by flaviviruses, researchers have successfully found that disabling or silencing one single gene…
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Landmark experiment improves coral calcification by 7% in Great Barrier Reef
A first-of-its kind, field-controlled experiment carried out for 22 days between September 16, 2014 and October 10, 2014 in a natural coral-reef community in the Great Barrier Reef has allowed…
Listening to the chirps of gravitational waves
A century after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, after decades of hard work to detect them directly and nearly four months of rigorous scrutiny of data, an…
Inter-group violence may be as old as 10,000 years
Now, scientists have found what may possibly be the earliest possible case of inter-group violence or warfare among hunter-gatherers. Ten of the 12 articulated skeletons found on the shores of…
An Ebola cloud with a silver lining
At the height of West African Ebola epidemic in 2014, the medicine chest was all but empty; no approved drug was available to facilititate treatment. With no signs of the…
Surprising discovery of oxygen in 67P comet’s atmosphere
The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has thrown a very big surprise — its atmosphere contains molecular oxygen. Based on our current thinking, the presence of molecular oxygen in a comet had been…
Two objects fused to form Rosetta’s 67P comet
The rubber-duck shaped comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) made up of a larger lobe and a smaller lobe separated by a thin ‘neck’ region were once two fully formed, distinct objects that…
Outdoor air pollution killed 0.65 million Indians in 2010: study
Of the 3.3 million premature mortality worldwide in 2010 caused by outdoor air pollution, about 0.65 million deaths took place in India. These deaths were in adults older than 30…
