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Face masks and Covid-19 prevention
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington (US), January 12 (ANI): Researchers reviewing evidence for the effectiveness of mask usage in preventing Covid-19 transmission, have found that in conjunction with hygiene, distancing, and contact tracing, mask-wearing, particularly by infectious individuals, can substantially red
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Short-term episodes of diarrhea could lead to long-term nutritional proble
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 13 (ANI): A study published in proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the toxin produced by the Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacterium which causes diarrhoea could lead to long-term nutritional problems.
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Ultraviolet light strongly associated with low growth of COVID-19, says st
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Connecticut [US], October 14 (ANI): High levels of ultraviolent light is "most strongly" associated with reduced Covid-19 growth, says a new study where scientists looked at statistical models of the link between weather and the maximum growth rate of the virus globally.
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Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits Russia's Kuril Islands
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kuril Islands [Russia], Jan 28 (Sputnik/ANI): A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck on Tuesday near the southern Kuril Islands, the Sakhalin branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik.
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No sleep indicates no reward despite working hard
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 19 (ANI): A new research suggests that a person's hard work will only bring fruit if he or she gets enough sleep at the end of the day.
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Earthquake of 5.5 magnitude hits Russia Far East
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kozlov Cape [Russia], Dec 31 (Sputnik/ANI): A 5.5 magnitude earthquake was registered on Tuesday near Kozlov Cape of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik.
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Just 15 years of post-Paris Agreement emissions to lock in 20 cm of sea-le
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], Nov 5 (ANI): Unless governments significantly scale up their emission reduction efforts, the 15 years' worth of emissions released under their current Paris Agreement pledges alone would cause 20 cm of sea-level rise over the longer term, according to new research publishe
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Russia: Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Kamchatka Peninsula
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Kamchatka [Russia], Oct 30 (Sputnik/ANI): A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East on Wednesday, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik.
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About 100 species of microorganisms living on ISS, eroding spacecraft
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 24 (ANI/Sputnik): About 100 species of various microorganisms live aboard the International Space Station (ISS), degrading plastic and metal the spacecraft is made from and endangering the crew's health, Valery Bogomolov, deputy director of the Institute for Biomedical
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5.7 magnitude earthquake hits Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky [Russia], Oct 4 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday, the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) said.
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Three recipients named for Nobel Prize in Physics
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], Oct 02 (ANI): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2018, will be shared among three scientists, one each from United States of America (USA), Canada and France, for "groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser phy
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Twin navigation satellites launched in China
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Mar 30 (ANI): China on Friday successfully launched twin satellites via a single carrier rocket in Xichang of southwest China's Sichuan province.
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