Science Notebook | Malaria vaccine trials confirm high efficacy, Russia and India sign a new protocol for Kudankulam plant nuclear reactors, and the alarming news that the earth may have already crossed the 1.5°C warming level

Science Notebook | Malaria vaccine trials confirm high efficacy, Russia and India sign a new protocol for Kudankulam plant nuclear reactors, and the alarming news that the earth may have already crossed the 1.5°C warming level

MALARIA is the largest cause of death in young African children, and the disease claims over 6,00,000 lives globally each year. Now, results are out of the phase 3 trial data of the R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University and Serum Institute of India. The double-blinded, randomised trials, conducted among 4,800 children in the …

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How Megalosaurus, The First-Ever Dinosaur, Was Discovered And Named 200 Years Ago

How Megalosaurus, The First-Ever Dinosaur, Was Discovered And Named 200 Years Ago

Large fossilized bones discovered in Oxfordshire’s slate quarries in the late 1600s posed an immediate mystery in a world unfamiliar with concepts of evolution and extinction. Seeking an explanation, experts speculate they might belong to a Roman war elephant or a colossal human. It wasn’t until 1824 that William Buckland, Oxford University’s inaugural geology professor, …

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Fossilized Stomach Contents Reveal What Young Tyrannosaurs Ate

Fossilized Stomach Contents Reveal What Young Tyrannosaurs Ate

Paleontologists in Canada have found a 75-million-year-old skeleton of a juvenile of the tyrannosaurid dinosaur Gorgosaurus libratus with the remains of two young individuals of the small dinosaur Citipes elegans in its abdominal cavity. A juvenile of Gorgosaurus libratus feeding on Citipes elegans. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi / Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology / University …

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