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MacArthur Foundation award 'genius grants' to 25 MacArthur fellows for their outstanding talent

Writers, artists, poets, a virologist, activists and filmmakers are among the luminaries named as this year’s MacArthur fellows.

Difficult to stop antidepressant medications, more than half relapse within a year finds study

While 56 percent of the patients who discontinued their medication relapsed during the study, a sizeable portion did not, including most who remained on their antidepressants.

Co-infection: What happens when two different respiratory viruses infect the same cell, at the same time

The new “chimeric” virus particles had proteins of both viruses on their surface and some even contained genes from the other.

Humans could live for up to 150 years, death a 50-50 chance after turning 100: Study

Even at age 110, your chances of making it to 130 are "about one in a million... not impossible but very unlikely," said Davison.

ISRO is thinking of developing next-gen astronomy satellite to follow up on its AstroSat mission

According to ISRO officials, data from AstroSat is widely utilised for the study of various fields of astronomy, from galactic to extra-galactic and from users from all over the world.

Ministry of Health and Animal Husbandry launch national action plan to eradicate dog medicated rabies by 2030

Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Parshottam Rupala spoke about the menace of Rabies and said the mere mention of ''Hadakwa'' induces terror in rural areas.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch its second space flight on 12 October with Capitan Kirk onboard

While Blue Origin did reveale the names of two members of the four-person crew it did not confirm whether William Shatner would be on the flight.

Completing 10,000 steps a day is an arbitrary number, walking 7,000 steps is good enough

The World Health Organization recommends adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise a week (or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise).

How do you effectively use over-the-counter rapid antigen tests that can help slow the spread of COVID-19?

A viral load that is too low to be detected by rapid antigen tests is almost surely too low to be transmissible. But it’s important not to let your guard down completely.

Vegan food to soon sport FSSAI-approved logo of green sapling inside a 'V'

According to an FSSAI statement, the 'Green' colour and the leaf "depicts that the ingredient/product is of plant origin and the letter 'V' identifies the product to be as 'Vegan'.

ISRO and Bhutan's Dept of telecom signs contract to jointly develop a small satellite

Kamboj said the joint development was envisioned during the state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Thimphu in 2019.

ISRO's Mars orbiter was made for mission life of six months, completed seven years in orbit this month

The lessons learnt have raised the confidence of ISRO scientists for taking up future interplanetary missions.

Nobel Prize winners to be announced from 4-11 October in a mix of online and offline events

The prize-awarding institutions will conduct this year’s Nobel festivities in Stockholm from 6 to 12 December.

WHO releases new air quality guidelines that aims to protect people from the adverse effects of air pollution

The new WHO guidelines recommend lower air quality levels for six pollutants, including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide.

WHO recommends antibody treatment for COVID-19 infected people who have a high risk of hospitalisation

The Regeneron cocktail of synthetic antibodies - casirivimab and imdevimab - has been found to reduce the risk of hospitalisation for unvaccinated, elderly or immunosuppressed patients with Covid.

Early humans used bone tools 120,000 years ago to make clothes out of leather, fur in Morocco

"Sewing is a behaviour that has lasted" since prehistory, said El Hajraoui."Tools like those discovered in the cave were used for 30,000 years, which proves the emergence of collective memory."

Department of Animal Husbandry signs MoU with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve livestock sector

Through this collaboration, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide technical assistance for the design and delivery of new technologies and implementation of best practices that are relevant in the local context.

Politicians speaking at UNGA say global warming making the world more violent, less safe

Russian and Chinese diplomats reiterated their countries’ objections to putting climate change on the agenda of the council, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security.

UN food system summit hoped to tackle problem of world hunger, provoke the ire of experts and anti-hunger groups

“The food systems summit has categorically failed,” committee member Michael Fakhri. “The summit’s organizers have ignored people’s daily struggles. And who’s benefited from this agenda? Corporations."

Ancient footprints dating back 23,000 years push back date of human arrival in the Americas

As per research published on Thursday showed, the footprints suggested that humans settled in North America long before the end of the last Ice Age

COVID-19 and Pharmaceuticals: International & national collaborations will increase India's business prospects

COVID-19 has put India in an exceptionally favourable position for engaging in pharmaceutical collaborations that facilitate greater global associations.

Power of evolution: Scientists are trying to answer why and how did our ancestors lose their tails

Researchers have identified more than 30 genes involved in the development of tails in various species, from an iguana’s long whip to the stub on a Manx cat.

Wildfires emitted record levels of more than 2.5 billion tonnes of CO2 in July and August alone

Even the Arctic Circle was on fire, releasing some 66 million tonnes of CO2 from June through August, with nearly a billion tonnes from Russia as a whole over the same period.

Billionaires take joyrides to space while millions starve, says UN chief Antonio Guterres

In his opening speech to the General Assembly, a grim Guterres highlighted the gap between the rich and poor with “billionaires joyriding to space while millions go hungry on Earth.”

Earlier Alzheimer's is diagnosed, better the chance of the medicines working says health expert

A promising avenue for early diagnosis is detecting biomarkers — biological signatures of lesions caused by the illness.

Astroscale signs contract with Rocket Lab to launch its orbital debris removal demo mission in 2023

The Electron rocket will launch the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan satellite for the first phase of JAXA's Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project.

Delta is the predominate variant in the world it after overtakes other COVID variants of concern: WHO

Maria Van Kerkhove, WHOs technical lead on Covid said Delta "has become more fit, it is more transmissible and it is out-competing, it is replacing the other viruses that are circulating,

Two Johnson & Johnson doses provide 75 percent protection against COVID symptoms, finds official trial

The CDC said it expects a second dose of the J&J vaccine will be required, but that it needs more data before making a firm recommendation.

Moderna vaccine provides better long term protection against COVID-19 hospitalisation than Pfizer: CDC study

The Moderna vaccine was 93 percent effective against hospitalization, Pfizer was 88 percent effective, and J&J was 68 percent effective.