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Does scientific jargon confuse, confound you? It does the same to scientists

As citations are often viewed as a metric of academic success, jargon has a negative effect on a paper.

Greta Thunberg will skip COP26 unless all countries have equal access to vaccines

“Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis,” she said on Twitter on Friday

COVID-19 side effects: What is thrombocytopenia, that's being linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine?

Naturally occurring thrombocytopenia affects about one in 30,000 adults a year in the United States.

Two cosmonauts, one astronaut arrive at the International Space Station

For a brief period, the strength at the ISS is 10, but three astronauts will return home, reducing the number to seven again.

Smartphone-based tool MFine Pulse can monitor blood oxygen using just a finger and a flash

Apps like MFine’s are looking to boost health awareness, empower its users to track conditions that require medical devices to help manage.

NASA shares Perseverance rover's selfie with its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars

The Ingenuity helicopter is only 1.8 kg in weight can be seen at a distance of four metres from the rover in the selfie

Chemical fingerprint of Osiris reveals that it formed far away from its star

Osiris is about two-thirds the size of Jupiter is the first exoplanet that is known to have an atmosphere.

Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine gets expert panel nod for emergency use in India

Dr Reddy's conducted the bridge trials in India and will distribute some 100 million doses of the vaccine in India.

NASA postpones Ingenuity helicopter's first flight due to tech issues with its rotor

Flight is a true challenge on Mar because the air is so thin and it has to spin its rotor blades much faster than it does on Earth

China considering mixing different COVID-19 vaccines to improve efficacy of jabs, says top health official

Authorities have to "consider ways to solve the issue that efficacy rates of existing vaccines are not high", Chinese media outlet The Paper reported, citing Gao Fu, the head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention

In Beloved Beasts, Michelle Nijhuis shows that history can help contextualise and guide modern conservation

Through the eyes and actions of individuals, Beloved Beasts portrays the evolution of the surprisingly young field from a pursuit almost solely of the privileged Western elite to “a movement that is shaped by many people, many places, and many species.”

IMF, World Bank roll out debt relief plans for low-income nations in green investments push

Low-income countries face a twin crisis, under pressure to pay down their debt while also confronting emerging environmental issues.

Hundreds of space tourists in training to experience minutes of weightlessness in space

National Aerospace Training and Research Center conducts training program that lasts two days and includes classroom instruction and tests in a centrifuge.

Breakthrough discovery of misbehaving muon challenges known laws of the physical universe

Physicists say the anomaly has given hundreds of scientists new ideas for how to look for new particles in the universe.

South African COVID-19 variant can better bypass Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine: Israeli study

The South African variant accounted for less than one percent of coronavirus cases in Israel.

Inspiration4: All-civilian crew on SpaceX's first privately-funded flight to orbit, revealed

The two new passengers are Sian Proctor, a community college educator and Chris Sembroski, a former Air Force missile man.

Govt says five states account for over 70 percent of India’s active COVID-19 cases

Maharashtra alone accounts for 48.57 percent of the total active caseload of the country, the ministry said.

Third of Antarctic ice shelf at risk of collapsing due to global warming

Larsen C, Shackleton, Pine Island and Wilkins ice shelves are at risk under four degrees Celsius of warming.

ISRO, NASA join hands for NISAR satellite to track disasters, impact of climate change

It is being assembled in a NASA clean room, after which it will be sent to India to prep it for launch at UR Rao Space Centre.

A 400-year-old botched nose job shows how little feelings, perceptions about transplants have changed

21st-century transplant doctors and patients continue to grapple with the ethics and practicalities of altering the body.

WHO COVID-19 origins report: Bats or pangolins may have been source of virus in Wuhan

The main takeaway from this report is that more analysis should be conducted in order to get to the bottom of this.

WHO COVID-19 origins report: What are WHO's four theories on the emergence of SARS-CoV-2?

A joint statement by 14 countries states that they don't believe the conditions under which the report was written was "independent and objective".

COVID-19 origins still obscure, what are the next steps for WHO's experts?

The group of scientists wants a new inquiry to include biosecurity and biosafety experts to investigate the origins of COVID-19.

Amid blood clot scares, COVAX says it backs AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine

Covax's first wave intended to distribute some 238.2 mn doses to 142 countries, out of which 237 mn were AstraZeneca doses.

Nearly 300 biodiversity 'hot spots' at risk of extinction due to global warming: Study

So-called endemic species — plants and animals found exclusively in a specific area — will be hit hardest in a warming world.

Lull in shipping activity gives scientists chance to listen to sounds of the ocean

They will capture signals from marine life that use sound and natural sonar to navigate and communicate across the oceans.

Gorillas' chest thumping allows females, rivals know their size without seeing them

Earlier research showed that bigger males are more dominant, have higher reproductive success than smaller ones.

Raindrop size can help identify habitable planets beyond the solar system: Study

The shape of raindrops helps in determining the falling speed which varies depending on the thickness of surrounding air and gravity.

Dry winters, climate change causes Nepal to experience worst wildfires in a decade

More than 2,700 wildfires have been reported in Nepal since November, 14 times higher than in the same period last year.

LOFAR telescope detects stars being born in far off galaxies in the ancient Universe

Researchers said that we are seeing galaxies as they were billions of years ago, back when they were forming most of their stars