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Lectures in bars? Pint of View Hyderabad is making it popular – NSP NEWS

Estimated read time 4 min read

Imagine listening to lectures on string theory, biodiversity or geopolitics — at a bar. That is the premise of Pint of View (PoV), whose Hyderabad [more…]

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Enhanced CAR-T therapy clears solid tumours by finding ‘faint’ targets – NSP NEWS

Estimated read time 6 min read

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, an approach that modifies a patient’s own immune cells to hunt down cancer, has transformed treatment for blood cancers [more…]

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NASA’s Artemis II moonship returns home to its launch site after historic voyage – NSP NEWS

Estimated read time 7 min read

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — on the first lunar flyby in more than 50 years. Seen [more…]

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A short video helps science reporting, but not India’s newsroom realities – NSP NEWS

Estimated read time 8 min read

Lara Marie Berger, Anna Kerkhof, and Nikola Noske, ‘Improving science literacy in the newsroom: Experimental evidence’, PNAS Nexus Science journalism is an endlessly fascinating enterprise. [more…]

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Science Quiz on explorers who undertook ‘impossible’ expeditions – NSP NEWS

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Name this Norwegian adventurer, who set out on April 28, 1947, on the infamous Kon-Tiki expedition, since considered to be racially motivated, to the Polynesian [more…]

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Critically endangered Peacock Tarantula in spotlight after Pawan Kalyan post – NSP NEWS

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A striking, electric-blue spider from the Eastern Ghats has spun its way into public conversation after Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan shared a [more…]

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India heatwave: What it takes to move heat action plans from advisories to mandates – NSP NEWS

Estimated read time 6 min read

Large commercial complexes, textile shops, and jewellery showrooms blast cold air onto the high street in T. Nagar, Chennai, where the average summer temperature is [more…]