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The Karman Project is a global non-profit foundation that promotes peace and security in space through international cooperation. How sustainable is space science? This was the subject of a debate at the Karman Week 2025, hosted by SatSure, an earth observation data refinery platform, on Thursday here. “It is time that we mitigate space debris,” said Susmita Mohanty, head of…
Offshore wind energy is on track to triple globally by 2030, offering a rare climate success story amid global energy uncertainty, according to a new report by Ember, an energy and climate think tank based in the U.K., in collaboration with the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA). Released on October 30, ahead of the United Nations…
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Finance is a significant issue in climate negotiations, as developing countries insist that developed countries pay the costs of adaptation (to deal with climate change impacts). File | Photo Credit: AP To adapt to climate change, developing countries will require anywhere from $310-365 billion (at least ₹27 lakh crore) annually by 2035, according to a…
The objectives of CALIBRE include establishing state-of-the-art infrastructure to harness the power of AI to transform biology research, developing advanced AI tools for basic, applied, and translational biology research, providing education and training to young Indian researchers to apply AI tools in biological research. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The National Centre for Biological Sciences…
The Huntington’s Disease Society of India (HDSI) hosted its second annual meeting at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, in August this year, bringing together patients, caregivers, researchers, and clinicians working on Huntington’s disease (HD). “Working on laboratory models of HD doesn’t give the full picture, but meeting patients has been eye-opening for me and my students,” Sheeba Vasu,…
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Imagine a tsunami, a colossal wave capable of traveling across entire oceans and causing immense destruction. Now, picture another special kind of wave, known as a soliton. Unlike a regular wave that spreads out and loses energy, a soliton is a solitary wave that holds its shape and speed over incredibly long distances. These powerful…
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Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 296 kmph winds on October 28, was a beast that stood out as extreme even in a record number of monster storms spawned over the last decade in a superheated Atlantic Ocean. Melissa somehow shook off at least three different meteorological conditions that normally weaken major hurricanes and…
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Cyclone Mocha and Tropical Disturbance 10, which would later become Fabien, on both sides of the equatorial Indian Ocean on May 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: NOAA The story so far: If you think of a cyclone as a machine, it would be an incredibly powerful entity — an engine that draws heat from the…
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Science quiz | Isomers: same formula, different persona Visual: Name this compound. It can exist in three forms, or isomers, as shown here, differing by the relative position of the two methyl groups (-CH3) attached to it. START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | Visual: Name this compound. It can exist in three forms, or…
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Coding, also known as computer programming, is the process of translating human instructions into a language that tells machines what, how, and when to perform those tasks. When instructing a computer, you use programming languages such as Python, C, JavaScript, and Java. These languages enable you to create websites, apps, games, and nearly every other…