Science This Week | Success of NASA’s DART mission and more

This week has been filled with the most interesting discoveries. The success of NASA’s asteroid smashing mission NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at a spot between two boulders during last September’s first test of a planetary defence system, sending debris hurtling into space and changing the rocky oblong-shaped object’s path a bit more than previously calculated. Chennai, Kolkata, in India, at particular risk due to sea level rise A research team identified several Asian megacities that may face especially significant risks by 2100 if society continued to emit high levels of greenhouse gases: Chennai, Kolkata, Yangon, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila. An agreement to share the benefits of “marine genetic resources” used in industries like biotechnology also remained an area of contention until the end Rising cases of cough and fever linked to Influenza subtype A H3N2, says ICMR Rising cases of intense cough lasting for over a week coupled with fever, observed in most parts of the country, can be linked to Influenza A H3N2, a subtype of a virus that causes flu, said the Indian Council of Medical Research. First evidence for horseback riding dates back 5,000 years Archaeologists have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding in 5,000 year old human skeletons in central Europe.