Researchers from University of Chile found that the Pseudomonas bacteria, one of the predominant bacteria groups in the Antarctic Peninsula, can be a source of ‘resistance genes’. These bacteria are said to carry natural antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance and have the potential to spread out of the polar regions.Read More
Monthly Archives: July 2022
ESA and partners are actively looking for options to launch Mars Rover Rosalind Franklin, a part of the ExoMars mission between Europe and Russia. As the plan was cancelled by ESA in March this year after Russia’s invasion of Europe, ESA can now plan to launch the mission alone, or teaming up with a partner…
A group of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, has found a new way of modelling how waves break. Using machine learning and AI, they have tweaked the equations that were previously used for for designing and building offshore platforms and structures.Read More
In a new research by scientists at University of Exeter, artificial intelligence (AI) can track the health of coral reefs by learning the “song of the reef”. The team used several recordings of healthy and deteriorated reefs to train a computer algorithm, allowing the machine to learn the difference.Read More
Skygazers have an opportunity to see a new meteor shower, which will likely take place in the coming week. Named the Tau Herculids, this minor shower is set to fall from the shattered SW3 comet beginning May 30. The “shooting stars” event is set to peak on May 31. It will be seen across the US…
The researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focussed on thalamus region of the brain in their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team said this could be an ideal target for treatments to reverse memory loss in elderly people.Read More
Global warming is posing an existential threat to the Siberian tundra, the frozen lands near the Arctic Circle, researchers have said in a new study. They said that the tundra could virtually disappear by mid-millennium if temperatures continued to grow rapidly.Read More
A new research has suggested a very unlikely source for water on the lunar surface. It stated that the presence of water on the Earth’s closest neighbour could be a result of volcanoes, which we now know occurred a number of times on the moon in the past.Read More
New study suggests that yawning could be a way for animal groups to synchronise with each other and coordinate group behaviours. The idea is that if yawning indicates that a person is feeling sleepy then watching him yawn may alert other members of the group.Read More
In a recent discovery, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet or a super-Earth that is four times the size of our planet. The planet, Ross 508 b, orbits the star at a distance that offers temperatures conducive to the formation of water on the surface of the planet.Read More