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NEW DELHI: Chandrayaan-3, the moon mission of India, experienced a delay of four seconds during launch to prevent possible collisions with debris objects and satellites, as disclosed in a recent report by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Friday.The chairperson of Isro, S Somanath, presented the Indian Space Situational Assessment Report (ISSAR) for 2023, … Read more

GOMBE: Nigeria recently became the first country to roll out a new vaccine (called Men5CV) recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which protects people against five strains of meningococcus bacteria. The Conversation Africa asked Idris Mohammed, a professor of infectious diseases and immunology and former board chair of Nigeria’s National Programme on Immunisation, to … Read more

NEW DELHI: Climate change could become the main driver of biodiversity decline by the mid-century, a new research has found. Studying changes in land-use patterns and their impacts on biodiversity, an international team of researchers found that biodiversity around the world could have declined by 2-11 per cent. “By including all world regions in our … Read more

The European Space Agency (ESA) has gathered unprecedented insights into the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The ESA’s space telescope Gaia revealed two ancient streams of stars that wove together and merged with the Milky Way early in its existence.Researchers were examining data collected by Gaia when they came upon the streams, which … Read more

NEW DELHI: A group of genes could be common to both depression and heart disease, a finding that researchers said could explain why having one of them increases risk of developing the other.The “puzzling” link between the diseases has been known to exist since the 1990s, they said.Studies have found that people with depression run … Read more