Scott Edwards paused his cross-country bike trip when he spotted a flash of black, white and red. It was a red-headed woodpecker. “I got my first good look today,” he said. He was phoning from his tent in Illinois later that night. He had seen their distinctive black and white wings while riding. “But I
Poliomyelitis, often identified as polio, is a crippling disease that remains preventable but entirely incurable around the globe. Till date, the only two vaccines available to the world for prevention against the wild virus are oral polio vaccines (OPVs) and inactivated polio vaccines (IPVs). While some positive cases remain asymptomatic, others have reported fevers, stomach
The moon lacks the bodies of liquid water that are a hallmark of Earth but scientists said on Monday lunar water is more widespread than previously known, with water molecules trapped within mineral grains on the surface and more water perhaps hidden in ice patches residing in permanent shadows. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted the discovery and
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A pioneering technique which captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped to solve a long-standing scientific enigma. The dramatic effect rainfall has on the evolution of mountainous landscapes is widely debated among geologists, but new research led by the University of Bristol and published today in Science Advances, clearly calculates its
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MOSCOW: A trio of space travellers safely returned to Earth after a six-month mission on the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-16 capsule carrying US astronaut Chris Cassidy, as well as Russians Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. After a brief medical checkup, the
