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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Month: December 2015

HIV

Pre-exposure prophylaxis prevents HIV infection in gay men

Published in The Hindu on September 13, 2015 Daily HIV medication (tenofovir-emtricitabine) to HIV negative gay men who run a

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Alcohol

Alcohol consumers in India face higher health risk, mortality

Published in The Hindu on September 17, 2015 Alcohol use is responsible for about 4 per cent of global burden

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ISRO

ASTROSAT spots Crab Nebula, the brightest X-ray source

Published in The Hindu on October 18, 2015 On October 9, ASTROSAT, the first Indian space observatory, spotted the Crab

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ISRO

ASTROSAT, India’s unique space observatory

Published in The Hindu on September 27, 2015 The launch of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) ASTROSAT telescope today (September

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Health

Two objects fused to form Rosetta’s 67P comet

Published in The Hindu on October 4, 2015 The rubber-duck shaped comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) made up of a larger lobe

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NatureOpen AccessOpen access journalPredatory Journals

Fake journal publishing flourishes in India

A scam of the most scholarly kind on the Internet — publishing “scientific papers” in fake open access journals (also

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Communicable diseaseDiabetesMalariaPublic HealthStroke

‘There is an absence of political will to give primacy to health’

India has to not only increase resources for healthcare but also radically transform the architecture of the country’s healthcare delivery

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