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Edible palm weevil larvae (Rhynchophorus phoenicis) at a traditional food market in Puerto Francisco de Orellana, Ecuador. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto We depend on insects in many ways for producing food for the world’s population. They pollinate our crop plants, break down decaying plant and animal matter, and are natural pest controllers. We also…
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Nearly 80% of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday (October . “No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air…
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Manishka Dubey is known for having won The Inventor Challenge on Colors Infinity TV, for her ‘Child Safety Band’, a creation that was made to help children when they get lost and can’t find their parents. Her great passion towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and strong desire to help others have led her…
Fortune must have had a pretty good time when the solar nebula exploded, tossed, roared, and turned around 4.6 billion years ago. If the slightest something hadn’t gone the way it did, we wouldn’t be here writing and studying the ‘what ifs’ and ‘what is’ of our universe. One night, like our good old Galileo,…
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A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Starry starry night! Although we depict sunlight as yellow, and it is classified as a ‘yellow-dwarf’ star, what colour is the…
An artist’s depiction of earth’s magnetic field deflecting high-energy protons from the sun. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Researchers analysed data from the European Space Agency’s ‘Swarm’ mission and recently reported that the South Atlantic Anomaly, the region of weakest intensity in the earth’s magnetic field, has expanded since 2014. Today, according to the data, it…
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Science quiz: When physics steps outside its comfort zones Visual: This German physician described a law for the process of _________. When this process didn’t follow his law, it was called ‘anomalous.’ Fill in the blank. START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | This German physician described a law for the process of _________. When…
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A bright band of diffuse gamma ray glow along the map’s center, which marks the central plane of the Milky Way galaxy, is seen in an undated image based on five years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark…
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This is a rare instance of AI being used in the process of scientific discovery to design practical drug candidates. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Opening a portal to a new approach to drug discovery, Google unveiled a family of Artificial Intelligence tools that proposed a drug combination for detecting cancer that human experts did…
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India’s biotech surge has been nothing short of extraordinary over the past several years. From a modest count of roughly 500 startups in 2018, the number has soared to over 10,000 in 2025. This rapid expansion is supported by a network of 94 incubators across 25 States, fuelling innovation that’s transforming healthcare and the life…
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