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A car burns during a wildfire in Meda, Portugal, August 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters This year is set to be the world’s second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024’s record-breaking heat, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on December 9. The data is the latest from C3S…
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Elon Musk had said in 2020 that SpaceX planned to list Starlink several years in the future once its revenue growth became “smooth & predictable” [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Elon Musk’s SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion and target…
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Science quiz: Fighting back against diseases This 2019 illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) bacteria. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | This ailment is also called Hansen’s disease. One of the main symptoms of a long-term infection of its causative pathogen is the body’s sensory nervous…
ISRO captures the signatures of the solar eruptive events from Earth, Sun-Earth L1 Point, and the Moon. File photo India’s first solar observatory Aditya-L1, along with six U.S. satellites, in a major breakthrough, has revealed why the May 2024 solar storm also known as Gannon’s storm behaved so unusually. In May 2024, the Earth faced…
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“You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in/His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed; His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake; And when you think he’s half asleep,…
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Light that’s too bright can damage the retina. | Photo Credit: Bacila Vlad/Unsplash You’re standing on your balcony in the noon sun. It’s bright. After a moment, you step back into a darker room, and for a few moments you’re unable to see clearly. This is because your eyes need time to adjust. The eyes…
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Static electricity with hair and a balloon. | Photo Credit: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS To put it simply, static electricity is the small buildup of electrical charge on the surface of an object. It occurs when materials rub against each other and the friction often comes with a transfer of electrons, leading to an imbalance of charges….
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama announces the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative at the White House in Washington on April 2, 2013. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: The brain remains humanity’s final frontier. In the decades ahead, neurotechnology will stretch the boundaries of what it means to understand, and…
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The Allen Forest Zoo in Kanpur is one of India’s largest zoological parks. Located in the middle of the city, it’s a vast expanse of fresh air, tall trees, and animals and birds of all shapes and sizes, and these early winter months are the best time to soak in the filtered sun when you…
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Mosquitoes have followed humanity to every corner of the world, acquiring a reputation for being one of our least welcome companions. They are carriers of some of the deadliest diseases on the planet, including malaria, dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and West Nile virus, which together claim over a million lives each year. For their ubiquity,…
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