A Cousin Of Viagra Reduces Obesity By Burning Fat
Newswise — Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and…
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Covid Symptoms Last Longer Than Previously Thought
One in three people infected with the coronavirus has had Covid-like symptoms persist or recur for three to six months…
Morality Demonstrated In Stories Can Alter Judgement For Early Adolescents
Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. – An important lesson in the moral education of children could be as close as the…
Is A Variant Worse Than Delta On The Way?
Somewhere in India last October, a person—likely immunocompromised, perhaps taking drugs for rheumatoid arthritis or with an advanced case of…
Human Footprints Thought To Be Oldest In North America Discovered
New scientific research conducted by archaeologists has uncovered what they believe are the oldest known human footprints in North America….
Pfizer Vaccine Has “Robust” Immune Response Among 5-11 Year Olds
While it’s true that younger kids generally don’t suffer serious illness from COVID-19, anything we can do to protect our…
Dr. Bellamkonda K. Kishore-Led Team Releases Summer Edition of JAAPI
The summer edition of the peer-reviewed scientific Journal of the AAPI (JAAPI) has been released in September 2021. Dedicated to…
Students From India Develop Plant-Based Air Purifier
In a development that may help in addressing the issue of indoor air purification amid the ongoing pandemic, an Indian…
COVID-19 Vaccines Are Effective At Reducing Severe Illness And Hospitalization
New evidence on breakthrough infections indicates people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after 1 or 2 vaccine doses had significantly…
Stellar Collision Triggered Supernova Explosion
Newswise — Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core…
Arctic Warming Can Cause Severe Winter Weather
A new study has now pointed out that these changes in the Arctic region induced by anthropogenic global warming have…
Dr. Vemuri S. Murthy: A Global Champion Of Resuscitation Medicine
World Heart Day is being observed on September 29th this year with the objective of raising awareness of heart disease and…
Dr. B.K. Misra First Indian Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Well-known Mumbai-based neurosurgeon Dr. B.K. Misra has been conferred the prestigious American Association of Neurological Surgeons’ ‘International Lifetime Achievement Award…
US Unsure On Covid Origins
The US intelligence community has failed to reach a consensus on the origin of Covid-19 disease, while ruling out the…
Want To Connect Diaspora To Indian Researchers: Science And Tech Ministry
Stressing the important role that the Indian diaspora could play in connecting with Indian academia and Industry, a top official…
Dr. Vivek Murthy Defends US Booster Shot Plan
By now, many public health experts, and the public for that matter, have accepted that vaccinated people may need another…
India To Sign Mou With Florida International University On Himalayan Geology
The Government of India have given approval for signing of a MoU between the Geological Survey of India (GSI) and…
“Food Without Fear,” A Book By Dr. Ruchi Gupta Presents A Groundbreaking Approach To Food Allergies And Sensitivities
One in five people in the United States have food intolerances or sensitivities, and while these can be debilitating, they…
Scientists Warn Time Of Reckoning Has Come For The Planet
Heatwaves and the heavy rains that cause flooding have become more intense and more frequent since the 1950s in most…
A Crucial Ocean Circulation’s Instability Would Have Serious Impacts On Our Weather
A crucial system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean that helps control temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and has implications…
Potential Dangers of Cannabis
The stigma encompassing marijuana has been steadily declining with states legalizing it for both medical and recreational use. On March…
Decline In CO2 Cooled Earth’s Climate Over 30 Million Years Ago, Scientists Find
Newswise — New research led by the University of Bristol demonstrates that a decline in the concentration of atmospheric CO2…
J&J’s COVID-19 Vaccine Works Well Against Delta Variant
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine helps prevent severe disease among those infected with the Delta variant, according to a trial…
What The Delta Variant Means For COVID-19 Spread And Vaccines
News wise — If you check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 data tracker, which tracks cases in each…
Back To School: FSU Center Offers Resources For Families To Help Young Learners
News wise — As children across the country prepare to go back to the classroom — some for the first…
When Will FDA Give Full Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine as Delta Variant Surges?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun accelerating the process to fully approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, facing pressure…
Moderna’s Vaccine Is 93% Effective After 6 Months
Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine remained 93% effective through six months after the second shot, as it reported second-quarter earnings…
Why WHO Wants The World To Hold Off On Booster Dose?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called upon wealthy nations to halt their plans for administering booster doses till at…
Was US Money Used To Fund Risky Research Lab In China That Supposedly Is The Origin Of Coronavirus?
As the debate continues over the origins of the coronavirus, a heated political battle is taking place over virus research…
Ayurveda Tech Platform Nirogstreet Secures Funding Of $2.5 Million
NirogStreet, India’s first technology-led Ayurveda doctor platform, has secured $2.5 million in Series A funding from a series of investors…
Immunovant Receives $200 Million Strategic Investment from Roivant Sciences Proceeds will fund continued development of IMVT-1401 in multiple indications
Immunovant, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMVT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on enabling normal lives for people with autoimmune diseases, today announced…
Next-Generation Antibodies Could Neutralize Any COVID-19 Variant And Help Prevent Future Pandemics
In late May, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to combat the COVID-19…
India, UK To Conduct Clinical Trials On ‘Ashwagandha’ For Covid Recovery
The Ayush ministry’s All India Institute of Ayurveda in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s London School of Hygiene and Tropical…
Climate Change Is Driving Deadly Weather Disasters From Arizona To Mumbai
Heat waves. Floods. Wildfires. It’s been a destructive summer so far, and forecasts for droughts, fires and hurricanes are looking…
6 Factors That Will Determine The Severity Of The COVID-19 Surge In The U.S This Fall
Here we go again. The United States is now experiencing a fourth wave of COVID-19, with very rapidly rising infections….
2 Doses Of Pfizer,Astrazeneca Vaccines Effective Against Delta Variant
A full course of two of the most widely available coronavirus vaccines is about as effective against the more contagious…
Why COVID-19’s Origins Must Be Investigated
The theories vary widely in credibility and likelihood, but no one is really sure how COVID-19 became the world’s worst…
Largest Known Comet Is Heading Close Enough To Us To Become Visible
Astronomers have discovered the largest known comet, and it’s about a thousand times more massive than others. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, so…
Indian Scientists In Antarctica Discover New Species
Biologists from the Central University of Punjab have discovered a new species of moss in Continental Antarctica. The species has…
A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells A Deep Story Of The Passage Of Time
The sequoia tree slab is an invitation to begin thinking about a vast timescale that includes everything from fossils of…
Tamil Nadu College Student’s Electric Cycle Offers 50 Kms Ride In Just Rs 1.50
When the fuel prices are at an all-time high, a Madurai college student, Dhanush Kumar has designed a unique solar-powered…
Heart Risk ‘Calculators’ Overlook Increased Risk For People Of South Asian Ancestry
Newswise — DALLAS, July 12, 2021 — People of South Asian ancestry have more than double the risk of developing…
How Does Our Immune System Reacts to COVID-19 Variants
Newswise — Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants…
Financial Literacy Movement Launched By Sal Khan & Others
A group of business, sports, entertainment and nonprofit leaders, including Khan Academy’s Indian American founder and chief executive officer Sal…
With 20% of Covid Cases, “Delta Variant Is Greatest Threat to US”
The Delta variant has emerged as the greatest threat to the efforts of combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S….
Making Seawater Drinkable In Minutes
Newswise — According to the World Health Organization, about 785 million people around the world lack a clean source of…
Does The Universe Expand?
Newswise — Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways to measure how fast this expansion is happening have…
Collisions Between Neutron Star And Black Hole Discovered
On Jan. 5, 2020, astrophysicists heard a chirp from a distant part of the cosmos, some 900 million light-years away….
Is One Vaccine Dose Enough If You’ve Had COVID?
Research shows that a previous coronavirus infection plus one dose of vaccine provides powerful protection — but concerns linger. Many…
Sumita Mitra Wins European Inventor Award 2021
Indian-American chemist SumitaMitra has won the European Inventor Award 2021, one of Europe’s most prestigious innovation prizes, in the “Non-European…
Longest Day In The Northern Hemisphere
Summer’s officially here! Longest day in the Northern Hemisphere is June 21st. Technically, the summer solstice occurs when the sun…
U.S. To Invest On Antiviral Pill to Fight COVID-19
We’re not going to vaccinate our way completely out of this pandemic. With epidemiologists around the world increasingly accepting the…
New Artificial Heart Shows Promising Results in ‘Auto-Mode’
Newswise — June 18, 2021 – An experimental artificial heart includes an autoregulation control mechanism, or Auto-Mode, that can adjust…
Underwater Robot Offers New Insight Into Mid-Ocean “Twilight Zone”
Newswise — Woods Hole, MA — An innovative underwater robot known as Mesobot is providing researchers with deeper insight into…
6 Things AboutCOVID-19 Vaccine Card
Social media has been flooded with images of people proudly displaying their COVID-19 vaccination cards—and the impetus for doing that…
Memories From Age 2.5 Can Be Recalled
Newswise — On average the earliest memories that people can recall point back to when they were just two-and-a-half years…
Are UFOs Real? Discussions Ongoing…
After 75 years of taboo and ridicule, serious people can finally discuss the mysterious flying objects, and even skeptics say…
NASA’s Stunning Image Of The Spiral Galaxy NGC 4680
NASA has shared an image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4680 in all its glory. The image has been taken…
US Approves New Alzheimer’s Drug
The first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease for nearly 20 years has been approved by regulators in the United States,…
The Mysterious Origin Of The Northern Lights Has Been Proven
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, could easily be described as Earth’s greatest light show. A phenomenon that’s exclusive to…
After 24,000 Years Frozen In Siberia, An Arctic Animal Just Came Back To Life
A microscopic multi-celled organism has returned to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia, according to new research….
Rising Global Temperatures ‘Inexorably Closer’ To Climate Tipping Point: UN
The WMO report predicts an increased chance of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, that Africa’s Sahel and Australia will…
40% Chance Earth To Be Hotter Than Paris Goal Soon
There’s a 40% chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily…
China Comes Under Scrutiny As Study Backs Lab Theory For Covid Origin
Amid calls for a fresh probe into the origins of Covid-19, a new study has claimed that Chinese scientists created…
Roots Of Major Depression Revealed In All Its Genetic Complexity
Newswise — A massive genome-wide association study (GWAS) of genetic and health records of 1.2 million people from four separate…
What Causes The Deep Earth’s Most Mysterious Earthquakes?
Newswise — Washington, DC– The cause of Earth’s deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a…
Will The Blind Be Able To See Again? There Is Hope For Millions
The darkness descends slowly for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects 2 million people worldwide….
AAPI’s Premier Academic Journal (JAAPI) Inaugurated By Dr. Susan R. Bailey, AMA President
Many years of meticulous planning, hard work and concerted efforts by several leaders have resulted in American Association of Physicians…
Study Finds, More Nurses Lead To Fewer Patient Deaths, Shorter Hospital Stays
A minimum ratio of one nurse to four patients for day shifts can successfully improve patient care, with a 7…
Treatments For Covid-19
The world remains in turmoil over SARS-CoV-2. But, ground-breaking progress in global vaccination has been made in India through Covishield…
NOAA’s Observed Warming Trend A Sign Of Global Climate Change
A new report released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the United States is…
Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise from Antarctic Melting is Possible with Severe Global Warming
Newswise — The Antarctic ice sheet is much less likely to become unstable and cause dramatic sea-level rise in upcoming…
Global Climate Trend Since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C Per Decade
Global Temperature Report: April 2021 (New Reference Base, 1991-2020) Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade…
While Harvard Introduces Covid-19 Vax Requirement For Students, Will Others Follow Soon?
Students at the Harvard University in the US will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at the start of…
Dalai Lama Holds Dialogue With Russian Scientists On Research Into Buddhist Thukdam Meditation
His Holiness the Dalai Lama last week conducted an in-depth online dialogue with Russian neuroscientists to discuss their ongoing research…
Sharks Use Earth’s Magnetic Fields To Find Their Way Home
Newswise — Each year, many shark species migrate hundreds of miles, traversing ocean waters to return to the same spot…
Pfizer Says, Covid Oral Pill Could Be Ready By Year-End
US-based pharmaceutical major Pfizer’s Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said that the company’s Covid-19 oral antiviral pill, which is in…
At ASEI’s 2021 AI Summit, AI For Social Good, Data & Ethics Highlighted
The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) convened an AI Summit with a number of researchers, authors, speakers…
Roivant Sciences & MAAC to Combine and Create Publicly Traded Leader in Biopharma and Health Technology
Roivant Sciences, a biopharmaceutical and healthcare technology company, and Montes Archimedes Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: MAAC), a special purpose acquisition company…
We Know More As To How The Vaccines Work
COVID-19 vaccines teach our immune systems how to recognize and fight the virus that causes COVID-19. It typically takes two…
CDC Panel Allows J&J Vaccine for COVID-19 To Resume
A committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has decided to lift the temporary hold on using the…
World Moving Towards a “Devastating Marriage” of Artificial Intelligence & Weapons of War
STOCKHOLM, Apr 16 2021 (IPS) – Landmines are among the most insidious and cruel weapons of all, because they do…
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Says, Additional Funds To Places Hit disproportionately by COVID-19
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has said the U.S. was increasing funding to areas that had been hit disproportionately by…
2020 Saw 1.2 Degrees Celsius Rise In Global Temperature
The global average temperature was about 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels despite the cooling effect of La Nina ocean-atmosphere…
First Ever Human-Monkey Embryos Created To Help Produce Organs For Transplants
Scientists have successfully created the first embryos containing both human and monkey cells, an important step in helping researchers find…
Google Earth’s New Timelapse Feature Shows Chilling Effect Of Climate Change
Google Earth users can now see the striking effect of climate change over the past four decades. Google’s latest feature,…
Molnupiravir New Drug Gives Hope In Trials Against Coronavirus
Over the last year, several drugs have either been developed or tested to treat coronavirus. Now there’s another that’s showing…
Sumit K. Chanda-Led Team Spots Genes That Fight Covid Infection
A team of US scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes…
Study Finds, Moderna Vax Has More Side Effects Than Pfizer/Biontech
In a first, a new study has pointed out that those taking the Moderna vaccine have reported more side effects…
A 3,000-Year-Old ‘Lost Golden City’ Has Been Unearthed In Egypt
A 3,000-year-old “lost golden city” has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, a discovery that could be the…
Does Moon Impact Your Sleep?
Irrespective of geography, bustle and light pollution, the coming of the full moon affects people in the same way, a…
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Shows ‘100% Efficacy’ In Adolescents
The COVID vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to work in children as young as 12 years old. That…
NASA Shares Data Of Mars Mission With India
The U.S. space agency NASA has exchanged data of its current Mars mission with its counterparts in China, India, the…
How Did Covid-19 Originate? WHO Has Possible Answers
Following a month-long fact-finding mission in China, a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic…
What happened to MARS’s water? Is It still trapped there?
Newswise — Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue; according to evidence still found on the…
A Mouse Embryo Grown In An Artificial Womb
Biologists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have grown a mouse embryo — complete with beating heart cells, a head,…
12 Indian Institutions Among Top 100 In World
This year, 12 Indian institutions have made it to the top 100 of the QS World University Rankings by Subject…
We Need To Foundationally Transform Cloud: Nadella
In order to herald the next generation of innovation in Cloud technology, tech companies need to foundationally transform how Cloud…
Earth Has Life Span Of Nearly 1bn Years More: Study
The future life span of Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere is approximately one billion years, a new study reveals. According to the…
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine Approved For Use
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers voted Sunday, Feb 28th to recommend the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine…