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From - The Nobel Prize Edited by - Amal Udawatta, It's an image of vitamin C, taken with polarised light. Vitamin C is essential for collagen formation and wound healing and a lack of it can lead to scurvy. Its study led to the awarding of both the medicine and chemistry prizes in 1937: the first to Albert von Szent-Györgyi who first isolated the vitamin, and the second to Norman Haworth for determining its molecular structure. More about the 1937 medicine prize: https://bit.ly/2QcpJGC More about the 1937 chemistry prize: https://bit.ly/2U4IxbI

From BBC World News, Edited by -Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, INDIAN NAVY Image caption, Vikrant is India's first indigenously-built aircraft carrier On Friday, India will commission its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, Vikrant, at a ceremony in the southern state of Kerala. The BBC's Jugal Purohit took a tour of the vessel ahead of its induction into the Indian navy. It is a moment that was 13 years in the making. On Friday morning, the 45,000-tonne Vikrant will get the prefix INS (Indian Naval Ship) after a formal commissioning ceremony, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The vessel - 262m (860ft) long and almost 60m (197ft) tall - is the first aircraft carrier India has designed and built on its own. It has the capacity to hold 30 fighter planes and helicopters. India's other aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, can carry more than 30 aircraft. The UK Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth can carry about 40 and the US Navy's Nimitz class carriers can ac

  From - Knowable Magazine By -  Kurt Kleiner,     Edited by -Amal Udawatta , Researchers are developing novel computers made from soft, organic materials (right) that can operate like biological nerve cells (left). These new materials may someday be able to interact with real nerve cells, opening the door to better control of prosthetic limbs, among other uses. ( CREDIT: W. XU  ET AL / SCIENCE ADVANCES  2016) The human brain is an amazing computing machine. Weighing only three pounds or so, it can process information a thousand times faster than the fastest supercomputer, store a thousand times more information than a powerful laptop, and do it all using no more energy than a 20-watt lightbulb. Researchers are trying to replicate this success using soft, flexible organic materials that can operate like biological neurons and someday might even be able to interconnect with them. Eventually, soft “neuromorphic” computer chips could be implanted directly into the brain, allowing people t

  By Philippa Roxby Health reporter (BBC), Edited by Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, AMADEI AND HANDFORD Image caption, The synthetic embryo shows comparable brain and heart formation, scientists say Scientists in Cambridge have created synthetic mouse embryos in a lab, without using eggs or sperm, which show evidence of a brain and beating heart. The mouse embryos, developed using stem cells, only lasted for eight days. But the research team say it could improve understanding of the earliest stages of organ development - and why some pregnancies fail. Other scientists caution that while the technique is promising there are still many hurdles to overcome. The researchers from the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are the latest to publish their results in the  journal Nature . Researchers from Israel also published similar findings  recently. The Cambridge team has been studying the early stages of pregnancy for the past decade but so much of it