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Addressing a press conference in Panaji, Sawant also said, that the theme for this year`s edition of the science festival would be 'climate'.  The science festival dedicated to the memory of former Chief Minister late Manohar Parrikar on the latter`s birth anniversary December 13.

Conservationists say images of the silver-backed chevrotain, commonly called the Vietnamese mouse deer, were captured in the wild by trap cameras.

The researchers, including those from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, applied a new way of calculating the destruction caused by hurricanes, compensating for the societal change in wealth since the 1900s.

The United Nations is facing a “severe liquidity crisis”, reaching its deepest deficit of the decade. Several emergency measures have been put in place by the world organisation to tide over the financial crunch.

A dip in the wind speed and temperature makes the air cold and denser, leading to accumulation of pollutants, said Kuldeep Srivastava, head of the India Meteorological Department's regional weather forecasting center.

The strange episode has left villagers and people of the forest department baffled for the lack of a sensible explanation.

The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, assessed the links between the geographical and physical features -- or topography -- of the Nile river to the flow of molten rocks in the Earth's mantle.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK gave the example of Kerala, noting that the Indian state has declared universal internet access a human right and aims to provide it for its 35 million people by this year.

It was recently published in the American Chemical Society journal that Candida albicans, a commonly found microbe, can turn deadly when it colonises on devices such as catheters implanted in the human body. While commonly found in healthy people, this microbe can become a serious problem for those who are seriously ill or immune-suppressed.

The rest of North America, Europe and Africa will catch part of the action. Asia and Australia will miss out.

Government air quality monitoring service SAFAR said the city's air quality was expected to turn 'severe' by Tuesday.

Milk needs to be cooled at source in order to increase its shelf life, to provide refrigeration, milk producers have to depend on diesel generators, which makes the cooling process expensive.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have allowed Google and others to move to smarter Bayesian techniques.

Johns Hopkins University researcher have discovered that Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two other critical purposes that is to generate sound and to point that buzz in the direction of a potential mate.

The current study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, noted that such large mergers could happen just outside supermassive black holes at the centre of active galaxies.

NASA took delivery of its first all-electric experimental aircraft from Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero) of San Luis Obispo, California on October 2. NASA will share the aircraft`s electric propulsion-focused design and airworthiness process with regulators and industry, which will advance certification approaches for aircraft utilizing distributed electric propulsion.

Chowdhury, while speaking on 'Traditional Indian Craft Storehouse of Scientific Knowledge' at the fifth India International Science Festival here on Thursday, said the Science City in Kolkata has helped build awareness among the youth.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, found that adding plants and trees to the landscapes near factories and other pollution sources could reduce air pollution by an average of 27 per cent.

Delhi experienced "slight secondary particulate formation in the early hours (on Friday) but (it) could not multiply much", it said.

The information was shared during a seminar on “Inflatable Structures and Materials for Space Applications” held on Thursday at the IIT Roorkee's Greater Noida campus.

Delhi had been breathing relatively less polluted air for three days after a bright sun and improved wind speed pulled the city out of the grip of a dense haze that had been lingering over it since October 29.

A team of scientists at pharmaceutical major Abbott has identified a new subtype of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), called HIV-1 Group M, subtype L.

Burning fossil fuels is currently emitting 37 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, and scientists predict the world will need to remove somewhere between 100 and 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon in total this century

The Meteorological Department forecast a generally cloudy sky with possibility of very light rain, and thundershowers during the day time on Thursday.

The researchers said that NASA's spacecraft has entered the region of space outside the bubble-shaped boundary produced by wind streaming outward from the Sun.

The Starliner was set on a small launch pad with four engines to simulate an emergency in which the capsule -- attached to the top of a rocket -- would need to quickly separate to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth.

The air quality index was recorded at 324 on Tuesday morning while last night it was at 309.

Communications with Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander to ISRO's ground station were lost just before its soft landing on the hitherto unexplored lunar south pole in the early hours of on September 7.

Voyager 2 has sent back a detailed look of the solar system. Researchers at the University of Iowa in the US have revealed that Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM).

After studying the image, Curiosity scientists have found clues of a pond on its floor and streams lining its walls allowing them to see history in fast forward. 

The pictures shared by NASA look similar to a beautiful abstract, even though all the pictures shared were the real images of the planet as seen from space.

Multiple venues have been selected for IISF 2019 Kolkata. The venues are Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, Science City, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), and Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Bose Institute, Salt Lake, and the Westin, Rajarhat.

The bottles flew up aboard a Northrop Grumman capsule that launched from Virginia on Saturday and arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Each bottle was packed in a metal canister to prevent breakage.

The spike in average summer temperature and number of extremely hot days has an impact on mortality, the study revealed.

Pollution levels in the national capital are expected to drop on Tuesday due to an increase in wind speed even as air quality remained in the 'very poor' category in the morning.

This could eventually mean the Indian Oil Corporation could put the systems at its refineries and petrochemical complexes with a solution to commercially produce oil from the plastics waste.

Pollution levels in the national capital dropped marginally on Monday morning due to a slight increase in wind speed, but the air quality remained in the 'severe' category.

In the National Capital Region (NCR), Noida (487), Ghaziabad (483) and Greater Noida (470), Gurgaon (457), breathed extremely polluted air.

ISRO latest news, Chandrayaan 2: Asserting that IITs are the "holy grail" of technical education in India, Sivan said when he graduated from IIT Bombay more than three decades ago, the job scenario was not as vibrant as today.

In the National Capital Region (NCR), Ghaziabad and Greater Noida recorded AQIs of 459 and 452, respectively, at 10 am on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, the EPCA declared a public health emergency in the Delhi-NCR and banned construction activities till November 5. It also banned bursting of crackers during the winter season.

CHACE-2, a neutral mass spectrometer based payload can detect lunar exosphere constituents in range of 1-300 atomic mass unit(amu). It has detected 40Ar as part of its earlier mission from the lunar exosphere from a 100km altitude.

The finding may have applications in faster air and space travel, and improved power generation, including reactions that generate zero emissions as all of the products used in the combustion are converted into energy, the researchers said.

Produced by Climate Central, a New Jersey-based science organisation, the research paper was published in ‘Nature Communications’ journal.

A Central Pollution Control Board official said the AQI entered the "severe plus" or "emergency" category late Thursday night, the first time since January this year.

Companies in Hong Kong recorded the best overall performance in Asia with an average score of 70.06, followed by South Korea (64.57) and India (63.12).

The air quality fails to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guideline for fine particulate pollution, as per a new analysis of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).

According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitor, SAFAR, the share of stubble burning in Delhi's pollution rose to 35 per cent on Wednesday, the season's highest, and the hazardous haze shrouding the city could "purely" be attributed to it.

Eviaton Alice comes with low operating costs. The electrically-powered aircraft has the capacity to compete on all of the high cost factors of the operational cost of a plane, fuel as well as motor reserve.

On Tuesday, the overall air quality index was 414 at 8 pm, worse than Monday's AQI of 397, according to the CPCB.