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View of a vial of Indias COVAXIN vaccine against COVID-19. (AFP)

COVAXIN effective against multiple variants of SARS-COV-2, double...

This development comes amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic being witnessed across the country

21 April 2021 1:47 PM IST

A staff member of the Rajawadi Hospital holds a vial of Covishield, AstraZenecas Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine made by Indias Serum Institute, in Mumbai. (AFP)

DCGI extends shelf life of Covishield from 6 to 9 months

In a letter to the Serum Institute, DCGI said it is permitted to apply the shelf life of nine months to unlabelled vials...

31 March 2021 12:25 PM IST

$Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint news conference at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is \extremely unlikely,\ according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. (AP)$ Science

Leaked WHO report says COVID likely passed from bats to humans through...

The researchers listed four scenarios in order of likelihood for the emergence of the virus named SARS-CoV-2

29 March 2021 1:39 PM IST

Motorists drive past a coronavirus-themed globe kept at a traffic junction during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. PTI Photo

COVID-19 double mutant variant detected in India

Officials said the new 'Indian strain' does not match any previously catalogued Variants of Concerns (VOC)

25 March 2021 7:36 AM IST

Using state-of-the-art space technologies, DMSat-1 will monitor, collect and analyse environmental data as well as measure air pollutants and greenhouse gases. (Image credit: Twitter/@MBRSpaceCentre)

Dubai to launch environmental nanometric satellite

The launch is part of a high-technology project undertaken to develop solutions to environmental challenges and address...

11 March 2021 10:56 AM IST

While the rats, mice, rabbits and Syrian hamsters were lab-bred, the rhesus macaques that were used in testing Covaxin candidates were caught in the wild in Maharashtra. (Representational Image/AFP)

Rats, mice, rabbits, hamsters and monkeys - The true heroes in...

The lakhs of people receiving Covaxin to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in India and elsewhere have much to thank...

4 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

Lift-off images of PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 Mission. (Image by arrangement)

ISRO launches 19 satellites under new business unit

Seventeen minutes after the launch, the rocket injected Amazonia-1 into its intended orbit

1 March 2021 7:35 AM IST

This combination of images from video made available by NASA shows steps in the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on February 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA releases Mars landing video: 'Stuff of our dreams'

The Perseverance rover landed last Thursday near an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient...

23 Feb 2021 11:49 AM IST

This illustration provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover, bottom, landing on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars, will search for signs of life

The touchdown of the rover marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth,...

19 Feb 2021 1:24 PM IST

The other candidate is a monster black hole -- 1,500 times more massive even than Sag A* -- in an elliptical galaxy known as M87. (Representative image | Pixabay)

Indian astronomers detect huge optical flare in one of the oldest...

The data collected from the flare observed will help calculation of the black hole mass, size of emission region, and...

13 Feb 2021 6:54 PM IST

A 3D medical illustration of 2019 Novel Coronavirus, derived from a CDC released image. The cross-section shows the inner components of the virus. (Photo | Creative Commons - Scientificanimations.com)

Scientists decode how air conditioning spreads coronavirus aerosols

According to the researchers, the current study is the first realistic case modelled and linked directly with the...

10 Feb 2021 12:56 PM IST

In this handout photograph released on July 20, 2020, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries an H-2A rocket carrying the Hope Probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in UAE to explore Mars, blasts off from Tanegashima Space Centre in southwestern Japan. (Photo by Handout / Mitsubishi Heavy Industries / AFP)

Arab spacecraft closes in on Mars on historic flight

For the UAE, it was the country's first venture beyond Earth's orbit, making the flight a matter of intense national...

9 Feb 2021 12:25 PM IST