Author: Harroop Kaur

Study: Ice found on the red planet, gives information about its past climate

According to new research, newly found deposits of stratified ice in craters spread over Mars’ southern hemisphere offer knowledge about how the planet’s orientation impacted the planet’s temperature during the past 4 million years. The discoveries aid scientists in understanding what influenced Mars’ historical climate, which is critical for estimating when the planet may have been habitable. The report was written in Geophysical Research Letters, an AGU publication that publishes short-format, high-impact research with ramifications spanning the Earth and space sciences. As on Earth, ice deposits on Mars reflect a mix of temperature, hydrology, and planetary dynamics. Temperature and sunlight…

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Study: genetic engineering helps find a new alternative to chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a helpful tool in the treatment of malignancies of all types since its inception, but it has a significant drawback. It can destroy good cells as well as cancer cells, such as those in hair follicles, causing baldness, and those that border the stomach, producing nausea.  Caltech researchers believe they have a better solution: sound-controlled microorganisms that seek out and destroy cancer cells. Researchers from the lab of Mikhail Shapiro, professor of chemical engineering and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, describe how they developed a specialized strain of the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli) that seeks out and…

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Philippines: locals seek refuge as Taal erupts

We all know that volcanic eruptions are one of the most treacherous natural phenomena as volcanos disgorge hot, toxic gases, ash, lava, erupt rock and wreak havoc.  they can cause additional risks, such as floods, mudslides, power outages, contaminated drinking water, and wildfires.   The residents of the island of Luzon, observed a similar event as the Taal volcano erupted.  Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes near a Philippine volcano after an eruption spewed ash and steam hundreds of meters into the sky on Saturday.   The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology stated in a statement that Taal…

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Odisha: Man beheads 8-year-old

On Friday, a 30-year-old man was detained for reportedly beheading an eight-year-old girl and wandering about a hamlet in Odisha ‘s Jaipur district with the severed head, according to police. The girl had gone to relieve herself in the morning in a farmland, after which the accused went there with an axe and killed her According to them, the purpose behind the grisly tragedy, which sent shockwaves across the community in Jamankira block, is yet unknown. Later, he wandered the hamlet with the severed head in his hands, then went to a tube well and cleaned it. When the accused’s…

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Delhi: Missing teen found dead in suitcase

An official said a 17-year-old boy’s body was discovered tucked inside a travel bag in Delhi’s Mangolpuri neighborhood on Friday morning. The deceased was a Rohini Sector 1 inhabitant of Delhi.  According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sameer Sharma, a PCR call was received at 7 a.m. at the Mangolpuri police station, and local police responded promptly to the scene near Peer Baba Mazar main road, opposite Y Block Mangolpuri.  “When the police arrived, they discovered a purple bag containing the body of an unknown person with his neck slashed,” the officer said, adding that the adolescent was dressed…

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New membrane material aids chemical separation, leads to energy conservation.

Chemical separation procedures, such as natural gas purification and oxygen and nitrogen generation for medical and industrial uses, consume roughly 15% of global energy. They also contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have invented a novel membrane that uses a fraction of the energy and emits a fraction of the emissions. There has always been a compromise between permeability—how fast gases can travel through the material—and selectivity—the capacity to let selected molecules enter while blocking all others. The new membrane materials, based on “hydrocarbon ladder” polymers, provide both excellent permeability and selectivity, the researchers…

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Israel: 4 dead in a knife attack, assailant shot

The attacker, a Bedouin male who had tried to join the Islamic State, was killed. On Tuesday, in a city called Beersheba in the southern part of Israel, a knife-wielding guy slashed five people and ran over another, taking the total number of dead people to four. Armed neighbours, including a bus driver, responded to the incident in Beersheba, shooting the perpetrator dead, police said. Following the bloodshed at a gas station and on a roadway outside a neighbouring shopping centre, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett promised to crack down on “terrorists.” A witness, identified as Liraz Zrihan, 25, was washing…

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two doctors subjected to a hit and run, suffer severe injuries. Source: referred from multiple sources

A woman doctor suffered a fractured leg, and her husband who is also a doctor had bruises. Chetan Utekar, the rider, was arrested after abandoning his phone at the scene of the accident in Kandivli, Mumbai Dr. Avantika (the wife) has been ordered to rest for three weeks after a fallen cell phone leads Mumbai Police to a hit-and-run biker. Two days later, Chetan Utekar was apprehended.On Holi, a speeding bike rammed into a woman doctor and her doctor spouse, leaving her with a shattered leg and her husband with bruises. The biker rushed away, but he left behind his…

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Love triangle leads to attempted murder, man-woman arrested

Atmakur police detained a guy and his fiancée on Tuesday for allegedly trying to kill his girlfriend’s lover. Shaik Abdul Rehman, 27, of Kavali’s Vengalrao Nagar, Andhra Pradesh, and Shaik Asifa, a Kavali native and Atmakur Government Hospital staff nurse, were identified as the suspects by Atmakur circle inspector Venugopal Reddy (AGH). The Injures that Shaik Nazir received were severe, and he is currently receiving treatment at the AGH, Andhra Pradesh. Nazir, an AGH computer operator, was head over heels in love with Asifa, an AGH staff nurse. Their parents rejected their marriage proposal.Later Asifa tied the knot with a…

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London: British Indian woman murdered in flat

Scotland Yard reported a case regarding the murder of a British national woman of Indian origin on Monday. The victim of this crime was a 19-year-old recognised as Sabita Thanwani, who was a pupil at the city, University of London, studying psychology. The incident took place at Sabita’s student accommodations, Arbour House student flats, in the Clerkenwell area of London, the United Kingdom. The incident took place on Saturday, when the student suffered some grave injuries to her neck. She was pronounced dead on arrival. According to the police, Sabita Thanwani was in a relationship with a 22-year-old Tunisian guy…

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