Vitamin deficiency widespread among healthy looking urban Indians
New Delhi, 27 March (India Science Wire) :A large number of healthy looking urban Indians are suffering from vitamin deficiency, a new study has revealed.
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विटामिन की कमी से ग्रस्त हैं स्वस्थ दिखने वाले शहरी लोग
नई दिल्ली, 27 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर): एक नए अध्ययन से पता चला है कि भारत में स्वस्थ दिखने वाले अधिकतर शहरी लोग विटामिन की कमी से ग्रस्त हैं।
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Study finds gaps in conservation efforts in Western Ghats
Jammu, 27 March (India Science Wire) :A new study has found that expansion of protected areas in the Western Ghats has not helped the lot of Dhole, commonly known as the Asiatic wild dog, even while enabling the recovery of populations of tigers and other big carnivores.
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Giant LEAP to view materials - one atom at a time
Faridabad, 26 March (India Science Wire): India is a leading player in nanotechnology research globally. To facilitate research in this sector, a national facility for Atom Probe Tomography has been established at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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More nitrogen may help offset effect of climate change on wheat : study
Jammu, 26 March (India Science Wire) : Increasing concentration of carbon dioxide and the associated rise in temperatures is affecting life on earth at different scales.
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New technique can make flexible electronics self-repairing too
New Delhi, 25 March (India Science Wire): Flexible electronics is making possible tiny gadgets for a variety of applications such as wearable devices and strip thermometers.
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देश की नदी घाटियों में नहीं है सूखे से उबरने की क्षमता
नई दिल्ली, 25 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर) : तापमान, वर्षा और मिट्टी की नमी जैसे जलवायु कारकों में बदलाव का असर वनस्पतियों के फैलाव और उनकी वृद्धि पर पड़ता है।
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Watch this season of IPL with a dash of data science from IIT
New Delhi, 22 March (India Science Wire):The performance of players and match analysis of the upcoming season of Indian Premier League (IPL) will be based on new metrics that uses data science to analyze cricket.
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कर्नाटक में मिले ऐतिहासिक सुपरनोवा के अभिलेख
बंगलूरू, 22 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर) :यदि काली अंधेरी रात में टिमटिमाते तारों से भरे आकाश के बीच आपको कोई नया चमकदार पिंड दिखाई दे जो कल उस स्थान पर नहीं था तो आप शायद सोचेंगे कि वह या तो शुक्र ग्रह है या कोई नया धूमकेतु।
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Records of historical supernova found in Karnataka
Bangalore, 22 March (India Science Wire):Imagine walking at dusk under a blue sky that is gradually turning black. Twinkling stars are beginning to appear here and there.
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New discovery paves way for ‘silicon of the future’
New Delhi, 19 March (India Science Wire) :Just imagine taking two extremely ultra-thin materials with different properties and placing one on top of the other, and obtaining a new a material with hybrid properties.
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in river water
New Delhi, 18 March (India Science Wire): Antibiotic resistance appears to be spreading in the environment. A new study has found a large number of bacteria which are resistant to commonly used antibiotics in stretches of river Ganga.
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Fishing and coral reef degradation threaten parrotfish in Andaman: study
New Delhi, 18 March (India Science Wire) :Protection of coral cover along the existing protected marine areas in the Andaman and Nicobar islands is necessary for conservation of the endangered bumphead parrotfish, a new study has suggested.
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Palm fossils suggest Tibet had high mountains and deep valleys
New Delhi, 15 March (India Science Wire): Tibetan plateau is believed to have been formed due to the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 50 million years ago.
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IIT Kharagpur gets new high power computing facility
New Delhi, 14 March (India Science Wire) :Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is all set to ramp up its research and development activities with the acquisition of a 1.3 petaflop high power computing facility and a data centre under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
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Climate vulnerability maps developed for Himalayan states
New Delhi, 14 March (India Science Wire): Receding apple lines, changing cropping patterns, more disasters like landslides and floods, drying springs in hills, spread of vector-borne diseases and so on.
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किडनी रोगों के नियंत्रण के लिए समग्र नीति जरूरी
नई दिल्ली, 14 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर) : भारत में स्वास्थ्य संबंधी समस्याओं में किडनी रोग मुख्य रूप से शामिल हैं। किडनी रोगों के बढ़ते बोझ से निपटने के लिए एक समग्र नीति की जरूरत है
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Scientists solve genetic puzzle surrounding Mundas
New Delhi, 12 March (India Science Wire): Genetic studies, in recent years, have traced the origins of majority of population groups in the Indian sub-continent to two ancestral populations– Ancestral North Indian and Ancestral South Indian.
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सात करोड़ वर्ष पहले पूर्वजों से अलग हो गई थी मेंढक की यह प्रजाति
नई दिल्ली, 12 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर) : भारतीय शोधकर्ताओं ने पश्चिमी घाट में मेंढक की एक नई प्रजाति का पता लगाया है। पीढ़ी दर पीढ़ी अनुवांशिक लक्षणों में होने वाले बदलावों और जैविक विकास के क्रम में मेंढक की यह प्रजाति करीब छह से सात करोड़ वर्ष पहले अपने पूर्वजों से अलग हो गई थी।
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