The recent mucormycosis storm over Indian sky

Recent Advances in the Treatment of Mucormycosis

In recent years, substantial advances have been achieved in the treatment of mucormycosis. It is now clear that early initiation of therapy results in substantially better outcomes, underscoring the need to maintain a high index of suspicion and aggressively biopsy potential lesions. Increasing data support the need for surgical excision of infected and/or necrosed tissue whenever feasible. Bas...

Book Review: Storm over the Constitution

Night sky at the Indian Astronomical Observatory during 2000 − 2008

This paper presents an analysis of the optical night sky brightness and extinction coefficient measurements in UBVRI at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), Hanle, during the period 2003−2008. They are obtained from an analysis of CCD images acquired at the 2 m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) at IAO. Night sky brightness was estimated using 210 HFOSC images obtained on 47 nights and cov...

Meteor Storm Evidence against the Recent Formation of Lunar Crater

It has been suggested that the formation of 22 km diameter lunar crater Giordano Bruno was witnessed in June 1178 AD [1]. To date, this hypothesis has not been well tested. Such an impact on the Earth would be “civilization threatening.” Previous studies have shown that the formation of Giordano Bruno would lead to the arrival of 10 million tonnes of ejecta in the Earth’s atmosphere in the foll...

The Analysis of Monthly moisture advection changes in Iran’s atmosphere over the recent half-century