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Tumour Treating Fields (TTFields) approved for Pancreatic cancer

Umesh Prasad — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:03:06 +0000

Cancer cells have electrically charged parts hence are influenced by electric fields. Application of alternating electric fields (TTFields) to solid tumours selectively target and disrupt mitosis at different stages in division of cancer cells, enhance antitumor immunity and downregulate DNA damage response leading to death of cancer cells. Clinical trials have shown that TTFields therapy enhances survival rates of glioblastoma, mesothelioma and […]

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Scientific European invites Co-founder

SCIEU Team — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:57:08 +0000

Scientific European (SCIEU) invites you to join as a Co-Founder and investor, with both strategic investment and active contribution in shaping its future direction. Scientific European is an England-based media outlet providing multilingual access to advancements and new ideas in science to young minds and general readers worldwide in their mother tongue. It aims to overcome language barriers to democratize science for a wider global readership. It is envisioned as a high-impact […]

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Future Circular Collider (FCC): CERN Council reviews Feasibility Study

Umesh Prasad — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:51:39 +0000

The quest for the answers to the open questions (such as, which fundamental particles make dark matter, why matter dominates the universe and why there is matter-antimatter asymmetry, what is force particle for gravity, dark energy, neutrino mass etc.) that the Standard Model cannot address, one may need to look beyond the Standard Model and explore the possible existence of new, lighter particles that interact very weakly with Standard Model particles, as well as explore the existence of new, […]

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Chernobyl Fungi as Shield Against Cosmic Rays for Deep-Space Missions

Umesh Prasad — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:12:26 +0000

In 1986, the 4th unit of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (erstwhile Soviet Union) suffered massive fire and steam explosion. The unprecedented accident released over 5% of the radioactive reactor core comprising of over 100 radioactive elements (mainly iodine-131, caesium-137, and strontium-90) in the environment. The radiation level was extremely high for the life forms in the vicinity to survive. The pine trees in 10 sq km area surrounding the accident site were killed within […]

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Myopia Control in Children: Essilor Stellest Eyeglass Lenses Authorised

Umesh Prasad — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:18:53 +0000

Myopia (or near-sightedness) in children is a highly prevalent vision condition. It is estimated that the worldwide prevalence will reach about 50% by the year 2050 with about 9.8% people affected by high myopia. If untreated, children with high myopia run increased risks of serious eye disorders like retinal detachment, myopic maculopathy, glaucoma, cataracts, etc […]

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Dark Matter in the Centre of our Home Galaxy

Umesh Prasad — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:07:02 +0000

Fermi telescope made clean observation of excess γ-ray emission at the centre of our home galaxy which appeared non-spherical and flattened. Referred as Galactic Centre Excess (GCE), this excess γ-ray is a possible signature of dark matter arising as a product of self-annihilations of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a dark matter particle candidate. However, […]

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Lead Poisoning in Food from certain Aluminium and Brass Cookware

Umesh Prasad — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:48:37 +0000

Test result has shown that certain aluminum and brass cookware leach significant levels of lead (Pb) from the cookware used for cooking into food. Lead is toxic to humans hence food with high concentration of lead is unsafe for consumption. In the USA, FDA has warned against use of certain cookware items made from aluminum, […]

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NISAR: The New Radar in Space for Precision Mapping of Earth

Umesh Prasad — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:20:36 +0000

NISAR (acronym for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or NASA-ISRO SAR), a joint collaborative mission of NASA and ISRO, was successfully launched into space on 30 July 2025. NISAR mission’s aim is to study land and ice deformation, land ecosystems, and oceanic regions. Equipped with the unique dual-band Synthetic Aperture Radar that employs novel SweepSAR technique to […]

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Effect of Atmospheric Dust on Ice Cloud Formation Confirmed

Umesh Prasad — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 07:21:51 +0000

It is known that the proportion of ice-topped clouds depends on dust particles in the cloud that act as nuclei for ice crystal formation. However, it was not clearly demonstrated using large data set. In a study published on 31 July 2025, researchers have confirmed this relationship using 35 years of satellite data. They have […]

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Hexanitrogen (N6): A New Neutral Allotrope of Nitrogen

Umesh Prasad — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:36:53 +0000

N2 is only known neutral and stable structural form (allotrope) of nitrogen. Synthesis of neutral N3 and N4 were reported earlier but could not be isolated due to extreme instability. Researchers have now succeeded in room temperature synthesis of hexanitrogen (N6), a new neutral allotrope of nitrogen which they could trap in argon matrices at […]

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Axiom Mission 4: Dragon capsule Grace returns to Earth

Umesh Prasad — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:22:04 +0000

The Ax-4 astronauts have returned to Earth after a 22.5-hour journey back from the International Space Station (ISS) where they spent 18 days. The Dragon capsule Grace carrying crew splashed down off the coast of California at approximately 4:31 am CT. Axiom Mission 4 is a private crewed spaceflight to the ISS operated by […]

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Closest Ever Images of the Sun

Umesh Prasad — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:50:11 +0000

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) made in-situ data collection and captured closest ever images of the Sun during its last closest approach at perihelion in December 2024. These images were processed and released recently on 10 July 2025. Close –up views of collision of multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) taking place in outermost solar atmosphere is […]

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Centromere sizes determine Unique Meiosis in Dogrose

Umesh Prasad — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:39:01 +0000

The dogrose (Rosa canina), the wild rose plant species, has a pentaploid genome with 35 chromosomes. It has an odd number of chromosomes, yet it can reproduce sexually courtesy a unique form of cell division called “Canina meiosis” in which only two sets of chromosomes undergo regular meiotic division while rest of 21 chromosomes are retained […]

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Solar Dynamo: “Solar Orbiter” takes First-ever Images of the Solar pole

Umesh Prasad — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:34:09 +0000

For a better understanding of solar dynamo, it is imperative to study solar poles, however all observations of the Sun so far were made from about solar equator. It was not possible to image solar poles due to limited view from the ecliptic plane. Recently, trajectory of “Solar Orbiter” spacecraft was successfully tilted 17° below the Sun’s […]

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Sukunaarchaeum mirabile: What Constitutes a Cellular Life?

Kamakhya P. Seal — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:26:42 +0000

Researchers have discovered a novel archaeon in symbiotic relationship in a marine microbial system that displays an extreme genome reduction in having a highly stripped-down genome of only 238 kbp and has an extreme functional bias towards genetic information processing. Its genome primarily encodes the machinery for DNA replication, transcription, and translation. It lacks nearly all […]

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Comet 3I/ATLAS: Third Interstellar Object Observed in Solar System

SCIEU Team — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:39:51 +0000

ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) has discovered a new NEOCP (Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page) candidate in four 30-second survey images taken on 01 July 2025. Immediate follow up study revealed a highly eccentric, hyperbolic cometary orbit. The comet has been named 3I/ATLAS. It originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the direction of the constellation […]

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Vera Rubin: New Image of Andromeda (M31) Released in Tribute

Umesh Prasad — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:46:56 +0000

Study of Andromeda by Vera Rubin enriched our knowledge of galaxies, led to discovery of dark matter and transformed understanding of the universe. To commemorate this, NASA has released several new images of Andromeda or M31 galaxy in tribute to her legacy. Situated in the Local Group (LG) that contains over 80 galaxies, Andromeda […]

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Two Novel Henipaviruses Detected in Fruit bats in China

Umesh Prasad — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:58:13 +0000

The henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) are known to cause fatal diseases in humans. In 2022, Langya henipavirus (LayV), a novel henipavirus was identified in Eastern China in febrile patients with known recent history of exposure to animals. In a recent study, researchers report the first detection of two novel henipaviruses from kidneys of bats inhabiting orchard […]

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Nuclear Sites In Iran: Some Localized Radioactive Release

SCIEU Team — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:54:58 +0000

As per agency’s assessment, there has been some localized radioactive release inside the affected facilities that contained nuclear material mainly enriched uranium. However, there is no increase in off-site radiation levels. The latest update by IAEA on impact of the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites at Arak, Esfahan, Fordow and Natanz following a 12-day […]

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Nuclear sites in Iran: No off-site radiation increase reported

SCIEU Team — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:12:13 +0000

IAEA has reported “no increase in off-site radiation levels” after the latest strikes on 22 June 2025 on the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Esfahan and Natanz. Based on available information, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed “no off-site radiation increase” from three Iranian nuclear sites of Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan […]

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Targeting Neurons in Hypothalamus for Stress-related Sleep disorders

Umesh Prasad — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:59:21 +0000

Stress-related sleep and memory disorders are important health problem facing many people. The corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in the hypothalamus play a pivotal role in elevation of cortisol levels in response to stress however neuronal pathway is unknown. In a recent study on laboratory mice, researchers found that stimulation of corticotropin-releasing […]

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What will happen to our home galaxy Milky Way in future?

Umesh Prasad — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:34:44 +0000

In about six billion years from now, our home galaxy Milky Way (MW) and the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy (M 31) will collide and merge with each other giving rise to a new combined elliptical galaxy. This is the current understanding about future of our home galaxy Milky Way. However, using data from the latest observations […]

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COVID-19 in 2025

SCIEU Team — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:23:18 +0000

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic spanning over three years claimed millions of lives worldwide and caused immense misery to the humanity. Rapid developments of vaccines and improved treatment regimens helped in improving the situation. The end of global Public Health Emergency (PHE) for COVID-19 was declared by WHO and national agencies in early May 2023. However, […]

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UK’s First Birth Following Living-donor Uterine Transplantation

SCIEU Team — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:47:33 +0000

The woman who had undergone the first living-donor uterus transplantation (LD UTx) in the UK earlier in 2023 for absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI) (a congenital condition characterised by absence of viable functional womb hence inability to carry and give birth), has given birth to a healthy baby. This is the first time in the […]

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Qfitlia (Fitusiran): A Novel siRNA-based Treatment for Haemophilia

Umesh Prasad — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:09:05 +0000

Qfitlia (Fitusiran), a novel siRNA-based treatment for haemophilia has received FDA approval. It is a small interfering RNA (siRNA) based therapeutic that interfere with natural anticoagulants such as antithrombin (AT) and tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI). It binds to AT mRNA in the liver and blocks AT translation thereby reduce antithrombin and improve thrombin generation. It is administered as subcutaneous injection starting once […]

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