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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
New piece from CERN in the matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzle ON March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference in Italy, the international LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a finding that could be rightly termed as a new milestone in the understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
Cheap nanosensor for early detection of pancreatic cancer
ACCORDING to data, about 0.5 million people have died globally due to pancreatic cancer. This cancer starts in the pancreatic duct, which secretes digestive enzymes. However, detectable symptoms do not show up until the cancer reaches the metastasis stage, when treatment options become limited.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
US FDA issues nationwide ban on use of the dye Red No. 3 in food and ingested drugs On January 15, following a petition in US courts by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and 23 other organisations, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked its 1969 authorisation for the use of the colour dye called FD&C Red No. 3—the chemical name of erythrosine, or E127 (C20 H6 O5 I4 Na2)—in the food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industry due to the mounting medical evidence that...
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thewire.in | R. Ramachandran
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services developmentStore and/or access information on a deviceYou can choose how your personal data is used.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
Good news about Antarctic’s ozone holeEVEN as the goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5° C by the turn of the century does not seem achievable, there is some news to cheer about.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
100-year-old rule in organic chemistry broken Chemists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have just found that a fundamental rule of organic chemistry that has been around for 100 years is not true. It is time to rewrite the textbooks, they say. Organic molecules are made primarily of carbon and have specific shapes and arrangements of atoms. Molecules known as olefins, or alkenes, have double bonds between two carbon atoms.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R. Ramachandran |Saba Naqvi |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Prathyush Parasuraman
Gaza’s kids get oral polio vaccine“A RARE positive story from Gaza: the first round of the polio vaccination campaign ended successfully,” posted Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on his official X account on September 16. According to his post, UNRWA and partners vaccinated hundreds of thousands of children, reaching 90 per cent coverage.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R. Ramachandran |J. Devika |Vaishna Roy |Aparna Eswaran
Acute encephalitis outbreak in India linked to Chandipura virusBETWEEN early June and August 15, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported 245 cases of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) with 82 deaths (a case fatality rate, or CFR, of 33 per cent), the WHO reported. Chandipura virus (CHPV) infection has been confirmed in 64 of the 245 cases, 61 of them from Gujarat and 3 from Rajasthan. To date, no human-to-human transmission has been reported.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Thulasi K. Raj |Subha Rao |Ayesha Minhaz |R. Ramachandran
The Hema Committee report has caused a whirlwind in Malayalam cinema and society, but if the report is to bring about lasting change, it must be seen as something more than an exposé on the industry. One must look at the report as an opportunity to create conditions that will make the industry more inclusive of women and prevent workplace harassment. After the release of the report, public discussions have mainly focused on sexual violence and criminal proceedings.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
Detecting dementia through brain patternsAN analysis of 49,482 brain scans has revealed five dominant patterns of wasting, or atrophy, of regions in the brain that can be linked to ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. This international study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Christos Davatzikos, a biomedical-imaging specialist at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of the paper on the work that was published in Nature Medicine.
