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“Another complication is the emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites. Certain malaria-endemic countries have even abandoned chloroquine for P. vivax treatment. Fortunately chloroquine is still effective in India. But the currently used anti-relapse drug, Primaquine, has many undesirable side-effects, especially in patients with a genetic defect called G6PD deficiency. Moreover, it takes 14 days to administer this drug for radical cure... there is an urgent need for development of a new class of drugs,” adds Dr. Ghosh. The researchers add that this assay could also be used to test if a specific anti-malarial drug would work for an individual, thus paving the way for individualised treatment for patients.

Air pollution helps COVID transmission, finds study

Scientists find 77 new butterfly species in Matheran

This was when the Universe was 1.4 billion years old — just 10% of its current age — and galaxies were still forming.

The “baby” SPT0418-47 was picked up by the powerful Alma radio telescope in Chile using a technique called gravitational lensing, where a nearby galaxy acts as a powerful magnifying glass, the ESO said in a statement.

A golden halo glinting 12 billion light years away is the farthest galaxy resembling our Milky Way yet spotted,

Based on Hubble Space Telescope observations, scientists said they believe Betelgeuse ejected a huge hot, dense cloud of material into space that cooled to form dust, shielding the star's light and making it appear dimmer from the perspective of viewers on Earth.

cientists suspect Betelgeuse — pronounced “beetle juice” — is nearing the end of its life cycle when it will use up its nuclear fuel and explode, relatively soon in cosmic terms, in an event known as a supernova.

“Newborn babies’ body temperature is usually at 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius.

“Newborn babies’ body temperature is usually at 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius.

In August 1970, in a paper in Nature, relativist C. V. Vishveshwara first published a calculation and plot of the signal that would be given out by a single perturbed black hole. This was the disturbance, or gravitational wave, that would emerge from a black hole when it was hit by a bunch of radiation. It implied that when a black hole is struck, it gives off a sound like a bell, only that it muffles quickly – more like a wooden bell than a silver bell.

ASTROSAT, Indias first multi- wavelength satellite observatory, has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy which is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) said on Monday.

ASTROSAT, Indias first multi- wavelength satellite observatory, has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy which is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) said on Monday.

The Assam keelback snake has been sighted by a team from the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, for the first time since 1869.

The team notes that the States of northeast India, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are the most fire-prone in India.

Watch | Polar bears could go extinct by 2100

Even if humanity were able to cap global warming at 2.4 degrees Celcius it would probably only delay the polar bears’ collapse.

The threat is not rising temperatures per se but the top-of-the-food-chain predators’ inability to adapt to a rapidly shifting environment.

C.S. Seshadri, a leader in algebraic geometry

Humans lived in America 30,000 years ago, far earlier than thought: study

Stone tools unearthed in a cave in central Mexico and other evidence from 42 far-flung archeological sites indicate people arrived in North America earlier than previously known, upwards of 30,000 years ago.

The Chinese Mars probe named Tianwen 1 or Quest for Heavenly Truth 1, will fulfil three scientific objectives: orbiting the red planet for comprehensive observation, landing on Martian soil and sending a rover to roam the landing site.