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Trump’s Golden Dome looks for alternatives to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

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Trump’s Golden Dome looks for alternatives to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

The U.S. Trump administration is expanding its search for partners to build the Golden Dome missile defense system, courting Amazon.com’s Project Kuiper and big defence contractors as tensions with Elon Musk threaten SpaceX’s dominance in the program, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The shift marks a strategic pivot away from reliance on…

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A beetle-fungi combo threatens plantations in rubber capital Kerala

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A beetle-fungi combo threatens plantations in rubber capital Kerala

Rubber plantations in Kerala have been under threat since a beetle-fungus alliance has been attacking trees, causing severe leaf fall and rapid drying. Researchers at the Kerala Forest Research Institute in Thrissur recently identified the parasite to be the ambrosia beetle (Euplatypus parallelus). In their new study, published in Current Science, the beetle has been…

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Innovators come together in Bengaluru to find ways to ensure access to effective antibiotics 

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Innovators come together in Bengaluru to find ways to ensure access to effective antibiotics 

The workshop was organised by the Trinity Challenge, a charity supporting the creation of data-driven solutions to help protect against global health threats, and the One Health Trust to explore community access to effective antibiotics. | Photo Credit: Photo for representation only Healthcare leaders, researchers, tech specialists, and other experts came together at a workshop…

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Harnessing AI to generate patterns of antibiotic resistance in real time

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Harnessing AI to generate patterns of antibiotic resistance in real time

Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A team of researchers from IIIT- Delhi have come up with AI-powered data integration and predictive analytics tools, to understand the patterns of antibiotic resistance in real time, enabling various agencies to act on them speedily.   As part of a collaboration between Indraprastha…

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Only the second animal to find its way by polarised moonlight found

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Only the second animal to find its way by polarised moonlight found

Many nocturnal animals, including insects like ants and bees, follow the moon’s position to find their way when they go foraging. But the moon waxes and wanes in a cycle and can be obscured by clouds or overhanging tree canopies, so the animals can’t always directly track its position. Now, for the first time, scientists…

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Neither ecologically sustainable nor ethical, says study over translocation of African cheetahs to India

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Neither ecologically sustainable nor ethical, says study over translocation of African cheetahs to India

A file photo of cheetahs at Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district. | Photo Credit: PTI A new study by the Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS), which examines the ethical, ecological and welfare challenges associated with the translocation of African cheetahs to India, has expressed concern over the translocation of the animals…

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Anomaly found in the Pacific Ocean could be global ‘time marker’

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Anomaly found in the Pacific Ocean could be global ‘time marker’

The earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a strange increase in the radioactive isotope beryllium-10 during that time. This finding, now published in Nature Communications, opens new pathways for geologists to date past events gleaned from deep…

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A planet on the edge: are Saturn’s rings older than they look?

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A planet on the edge: are Saturn’s rings older than they look?

A debate about the age of Saturn’s resplendent rings has been raging for a few decades now, with no end in sight. A new study by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics has fresh spin to offer now that could recast the conversation. Saturn’s rings are an…

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Webb telescope observes violence around Milky Way’s central black hole

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Webb telescope observes violence around Milky Way’s central black hole

An artist’s concept shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas, in this undated illustration obtained by Reuters on February 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic…

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