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WE LOVE SCIENCE HERE BECAUSE IT IS A MANY SPLENDOURED THING

THIS IS A WAR ZONE WHERE SCIENCE FIGHTS WITH NONSENSE AND WINS

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

"Being a scientist is a state of mind, not a profession!"

"Science, when it's done right, can yield amazing things".

The Reach of Scientific Research From Labs to Laymen

The aim of science is not only to open a door to infinite knowledge and wisdom but to set a limit to infinite error.

"Knowledge is a Superpower but the irony is you cannot get enough of it with ever increasing data base unless you try to keep up with it constantly and in the right way!" The best education comes from learning from people who know what they are exactly talking about.

Science is this glorious adventure into the unknown, the opportunity to discover things that nobody knew before. And that’s just an experience that’s not to be missed. But it’s also a motivated effort to try to help humankind. And maybe that’s just by increasing human knowledge—because that’s a way to make us a nobler species.

If you are scientifically literate the world looks very different to you.

We do science and science communication not because they are easy but because they are difficult!

“Science is not a subject you studied in school. It’s life. We 're brought into existence by it!"

Links to some important articles :

1. Interactive science series...

a. how-to-do-research-and-write-research-papers-part 13

b. Some Qs people asked me on science and my replies to them...

Part 6, part-10, part-11, part-12, part 14 , part- 8,

part- 1, part-2, part-4, part-5, part-16, part-17, part-18 , part-19 , part-20

part-21 , part-22, part-23, part-24, part-25, part-26, part-27 , part-28

part-29, part-30, part-31, part-32, part-33, part-34, part-35, part-36, part-37,

part-38, part-40, part-41, part-42, part-43, part-44, part-45, part-46, part-47

Part 48, part49, Critical thinking -part 50 , part -51, part-52, part-53

part-54, part-55, part-57, part-58, part-59, part-60, part-61, part-62, part-63

part 64, part-65, part-66, part-67, part-68, part 69, part-70 part-71, part-73 ...

.......306

BP variations during pregnancy part-72

who is responsible for the gender of their children - a man or a woman -part-56

c. some-questions-people-asked-me-on-science-based-on-my-art-and-poems -part-7

d. science-s-rules-are-unyielding-they-will-not-be-bent-for-anybody-part-3-

e. debate-between-scientists-and-people-who-practice-and-propagate-pseudo-science - part -9

f. why astrology is pseudo-science part 15

g. How Science is demolishing patriarchal ideas - part-39

2. in-defence-of-mangalyaan-why-even-developing-countries-like-india need space research programmes

3. Science communication series:

a. science-communication - part 1

b. how-scienitsts-should-communicate-with-laymen - part 2

c. main-challenges-of-science-communication-and-how-to-overcome-them - part 3

d. the-importance-of-science-communication-through-art- part 4

e. why-science-communication-is-geting worse - part 5

f. why-science-journalism-is-not-taken-seriously-in-this-part-of-the-world - part 6

g. blogs-the-best-bet-to-communicate-science-by-scientists- part 7

h. why-it-is-difficult-for-scientists-to-debate-controversial-issues - part 8

i. science-writers-and-communicators-where-are-you - part 9

j. shooting-the-messengers-for-a-different-reason-for-conveying-the- part 10

k. why-is-science-journalism-different-from-other-forms-of-journalism - part 11

l. golden-rules-of-science-communication- Part 12

m. science-writers-should-develop-a-broader-view-to-put-things-in-th - part 13

n. an-informed-patient-is-the-most-cooperative-one -part 14

o. the-risks-scientists-will-have-to-face-while-communicating-science - part 15

p. the-most-difficult-part-of-science-communication - part 16

q. clarity-on-who-you-are-writing-for-is-important-before-sitting-to write a science story - part 17

r. science-communicators-get-thick-skinned-to-communicate-science-wi thout-any-bias - part 18

s. is-post-truth-another-name-for-science-communication-failure?

t. why-is-it-difficult-for-scientists-to-have-high-eqs

u. art-and-literature-as-effective-aids-in-science-communication-and teaching

v.* some-qs-people-asked-me-on-science communication-and-my-replies-to-them

** qs-people-asked-me-on-science-and-my-replies-to-them-part-173

w. why-motivated-perception-influences-your-understanding-of-science

x. science-communication-in-uncertain-times

y. sci-com: why-keep-a-dog-and-bark-yourself

z. How to deal with sci com dilemmas?

A+. sci-com-what-makes-a-story-news-worthy-in-science

B+. is-a-perfect-language-important-in-writing-science-stories

C+. sci-com-how-much-entertainment-is-too-much-while-communicating-sc

D+. sci-com-why-can-t-everybody-understand-science-in-the-same-way

E+. how-to-successfully-negotiate-the-science-communication-maze

4. Health related topics:

a. why-antibiotic-resistance-is-increasing-and-how-scientists-are-tr

b. what-might-happen-when-you-take-lots-of-medicines

c. know-your-cesarean-facts-ladies

d. right-facts-about-menstruation

e. answer-to-the-question-why-on-big-c

f. how-scientists-are-identifying-new-preventive-measures-and-cures-

g. what-if-little-creatures-high-jack-your-brain-and-try-to-control-

h. who-knows-better?

i. mycotoxicoses

j. immunotherapy

k. can-rust-from-old-drinking-water-pipes-cause-health-problems

l. pvc-and-cpvc-pipes-should-not-be-used-for-drinking-water-supply

m. melioidosis

n.vaccine-woes

o. desensitization-and-transplant-success-story

p. do-you-think-the-medicines-you-are-taking-are-perfectly-alright-then revisit your position!

q. swine-flu-the-difficlulties-we-still-face-while-tackling-the-outb

r. dump-this-useless-information-into-a-garbage-bin-if-you-really-ca re about evidence based medicine

s. don-t-ignore-these-head-injuries

t. the-detoxification-scam

u. allergic- agony-caused-by-caterpillars-and-moths

General science:

a.why-do-water-bodies-suddenly-change-colour

b. don-t-knock-down-your-own-life-line

c. the-most-menacing-animal-in-the-world

d. how-exo-planets-are-detected

e. the-importance-of-earth-s-magnetic-field

f. saving-tigers-from-extinction-is-still-a-travail

g. the-importance-of-snakes-in-our-eco-systems

h. understanding-reverse-osmosis

i. the-importance-of-microbiomes

j. crispr-cas9-gene-editing-technique-a-boon-to-fixing-defective-gen

k. biomimicry-a-solution-to-some-of-our-problems

5. the-dilemmas-scientists-face

6. why-we-get-contradictory-reports-in-science

7. be-alert-pseudo-science-and-anti-science-are-on-prowl

8. science-will-answer-your-questions-and-solve-your-problems

9. how-science-debunks-baseless-beliefs

10. climate-science-and-its-relevance

11. the-road-to-a-healthy-life

12. relative-truth-about-gm-crops-and-foods

13. intuition-based-work-is-bad-science

14. how-science-explains-near-death-experiences

15. just-studies-are-different-from-thorough-scientific-research

16. lab-scientists-versus-internet-scientists

17. can-you-challenge-science?

18. the-myth-of-ritual-working

19.science-and-superstitions-how-rational-thinking-can-make-you-work -better

20. comets-are-not-harmful-or-bad-omens-so-enjoy-the-clestial-shows

21. explanation-of-mysterious-lights-during-earthquakes

22. science-can-tell-what-constitutes-the-beauty-of-a-rose

23. what-lessons-can-science-learn-from-tragedies-like-these

24. the-specific-traits-of-a-scientific-mind

25. science-and-the-paranormal

26. are-these-inventions-and-discoveries-really-accidental-and-intuitive like the journalists say?

27. how-the-brain-of-a-polymath-copes-with-all-the-things-it-does

28. how-to-make-scientific-research-in-india-a-success-story

29. getting-rid-of-plastic-the-natural-way

30. why-some-interesting-things-happen-in-nature

31. real-life-stories-that-proves-how-science-helps-you

32. Science and trust series:

a. how-to-trust-science-stories-a-guide-for-common-man

b. trust-in-science-what-makes-people-waver

c. standing-up-for-science-showing-reasons-why-science-should-be-trusted

You will find the entire list of discussions here: http://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 28, 2020 at 7:00am: Tightening up facial biometrics

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-05-tightening-facial-biometrics.ht...

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https://theconversation.com/are-thermal-cameras-a-magic-bullet-for-...

Evidence suggests thermal cameras are far from a perfect solution, offering limited accuracy if set up incorrectly, and raising data privacy concerns.

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https://theconversation.com/a-disease-that-breeds-disease-why-is-ty...

A disease that breeds disease: why is type 2 diabetes linked to increased risk of cancer and dementia?

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** https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/researchers-fi...

corona virus in waste water

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https://www.sciencealert.com/we-are-on-our-way-to-annihilating-50-b...

Humans Are on Their Way to Annihilating 50 Billion Years of Evolutionary History

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https://www.sciencealert.com/does-exercise-produce-the-same-mental-...

Replacing coffee with a single bout of aerobic exercise could not only provide a cognitive boost similar to coffee but may also provide other health benefits that come along with exercise.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/the-cdc-is-warning-people-about-an-inc...

A Warning About Aggressive Rat Behaviour Due to The Pandemic: Rats are growing increasingly aggressive in their hunt for food as restaurants across the world remain shuttered to slow the spread of the coronavirus

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 28, 2020 at 6:31am: "We know from measurements of the Big Bang how much matter there was in the beginning of the universe," he said. "But when we looked out into the present universe, we couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment. Intergalactic space is very sparse. The missing matter was equivalent to only one or two atoms in a room the size of an average office. So it was very hard to detect this matter using traditional techniques and telescopes."

The researchers were able to directly detect the missing matter using the phenomenon of fast radio bursts—brief flashes of energy that appear to come from random directions in the sky and last for just milliseconds. Scientists don't yet know what causes them, but it must involve incredible energy, equivalent to the amount released by the sun in 80 years. They have been difficult to detect as astronomers don't know when and where to look for them.

Associate Professor Macquart said the team detected the missing matter by using fast radio bursts as "cosmic weigh stations."

"The radiation from fast radio bursts gets spread out by the missing matter in the same way that you see the colours of sunlight being separated in a prism," he said. "We've now been able to measure the distances to enough fast radio bursts to determine the density of the universe. We only needed six to find this missing matter."

The missing matter in this case is baryonic, or 'normal' matter—like the protons and neutrons that make up stars, planets and humans. It's different from dark matter, which remains elusive and accounts for about 85% of the total matter in the universe.

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-cosmic-unveil-universe.html?utm_sourc...

Cosmic bursts unveil universe's missing matter

A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2300-2, www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2300-2

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https://theconversation.com/half-the-matter-in-the-universe-was-mis...

Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 28, 2020 at 6:00am: Extraction of skin interstitial fluid using microneedle patches

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-skin-interstitial-fluid-microneedle-p...

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-coupled-electronic-structural-magneti...

New type of coupled electronic-structural waves discovered in magnetite

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-mathematics-sea.html?utm_source=nwlet...

Mathematics can save lives at sea

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-potential-explanation-urban-smog-aero...

A potential explanation for urban smog: Aerosol particle growth higher in cold climates

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** https://phys.org/news/2020-05-asteroid-climate-responsible-mass-ext...

Asteroid, climate change not responsible for mass extinction 215 million years ago

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-cosmic-unveil-universe.html?utm_sourc...

Cosmic bursts unveil universe's missing matter

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-terrestrial-bacteria-nutrients-space....

Terrestrial bacteria can grow on nutrients from space

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 28, 2020 at 5:46am: Heat now more lethal than cold for people with respiratory diseases

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-lethal-cold-people-respiratory-diseas...

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-scientists-reveal-fundamental-princip...

Scientists reveal new fundamental principles governing diving in animals

Writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists say their findings constitute a new fundamental principle of evolutionary physiology, showing that the same 'rules' govern the evolution of diving in animals as different as water beetles and walruses.

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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-exposure-good-bacteria-pregn...

Exposure to 'good bacteria' during pregnancy buffers risk of autism-like syndrome

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Researchers discover key player in hepatitis A virus infection

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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-prevalence-silent-covid-infe...

Prevalence of 'silent' COVID-19 infection may be much higher than thought

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https://techxplore.com/news/2020-05-breach-users-rarely-passwords-t...

After a breach, users rarely change their passwords, and when they do, they're often weaker

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 28, 2020 at 5:44am: Scientists unravel secrets from the faults in our genes

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-scientists-unravel-secrets-f...

More information: The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2308-7, www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2308-7

Evaluating drug targets through human loss-of-function genetic variation, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2267-z , www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2267-z

A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2267-z , www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2287-8

Transcript expression-aware annotation improves rare variant interpretation, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2267-z , www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2329-2

The effect of LRRK2 loss-of-function variants in humans, Nature (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2267-z , www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0893-5

Journal information: Nature , Nature Communications , Nature Medicine

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 28, 2020 at 5:39am: Study shows erosion of ozone layer responsible for mass extinction event

There have been a number of mass extinction in the geological past. Only one was caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth, which was 66 million years ago when the dinosaurs became extinct. Three of the others, including the end Permian Great Dying, 252 million years ago, were caused by huge continental scale volcanic eruptions that destabilised the Earth's atmospheres and oceans.

Now, scientists have found evidence showing it was high levels of UV radiation which collapsed forest ecosystems and killed off many species of fish and tetrapods (our four limbed ancestors) at the end of the Devonian geological period, 359 million years ago. This damaging burst of UV radiation occurred as part of one of the Earth's climate cycles, rather than being caused by a huge volcanic eruption.

The ozone collapse occurred as the climate rapidly warmed following an intense ice age and the researchers suggest that the Earth today could reach comparable temperatures, possibly triggering a similar event. Their findings are pu blished in the journal Science Advances.

J.E.A. Marshall el al., "UV-B radiation was the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary terrestrial extinction kill mechanism," Science Advances (2020). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0768 , advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/22/eaba0768

Journal information: Science Advances

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-erosion-ozone-layer-responsible-mass....

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 27, 2020 at 8:21am: Why myth busting backfires ...

https://theconversation.com/seeing-is-believing-how-media-mythbusti...

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https://www.the-scientist.com/reading-frames/where-do-our-memories-...

Where Do Our Memories Live?

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https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-why-were-using-llamas-to-he...

why we’re using llamas to help fight the pandemic

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-nature-antifreeze-formula-durable-con...

Nature's antifreeze' provides formula for more durable concrete

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-physicists-short-lived-radioactive-mo...

Physicists measure a short-lived radioactive molecule for first time

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-clues-deep-earthquake-mystery.html?ut...

New clues to deep earthquake mystery

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 27, 2020 at 5:46am: Critical transition theory shows flickering in heart before atrial fibrillation

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-critical-transition-theory-flickering...

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https://techxplore.com/news/2020-05-method-hydrogen-vivo-photosynth...

A method to produce hydrogen in vivo photosynthetically

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New jailbreak tool unlocks almost all iPhones

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https://techxplore.com/news/2020-05-coronavirus-pandemic-life-onlin...

The coronavirus pandemic moved life online – a surge in website defacing followed

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https://techxplore.com/news/2020-05-high-security-identification-co...

High-security identification that cannot be counterfeited

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01506-2?utm_source=Natur...

‘Medications should be prescribed by doctors, not the president’: leading Brazilian scientist discusses the pandemic

Scientists across the country are battling anti-science sentiment alongside a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases.

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https://theconversation.com/climate-explained-why-countries-dont-co...

Climate explained: why countries don’t count emissions from goods they import

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 26, 2020 at 9:37am: Even natural products may pose potential risk to unborn child

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200525/Even-natural-products-ma...

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University of Bern

Journal reference:

Ganal-Vonarburg, S.C., et al. (2020) Microbial–host molecular exchange and its functional consequences in early mammalian life. Science. doi.org/10.1126/science.aba0478.

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https://theconversation.com/the-world-needs-pharmaceuticals-from-ch...

The world needs pharmaceuticals from China and India to beat coronavirus

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-physicist-state-room.html?utm_source=...

Physicist creates fifth state of matter from the living room

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-astrophysicists-capture-class-transie...

Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects

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https://theconversation.com/why-astronomers-now-doubt-there-is-an-u...

Why astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 26, 2020 at 9:03am: --
Whispering Gallery and sound wave communication
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Can We Really Get to Alpha Centauri? The Breakthrough Starshot Mission Explained
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-interstellar-probes-starshot.html?utm...

How will we receive signals from interstellar probes like Starshot?