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For approximately 80% of the world’s population, the first stop after catching a cold or breaking a bone isn’t the hospital — maybe because there isn’t one nearby, or they can’t afford it. Instead, the first step is consulting traditional medicine, which cultures around the world have been using for thousands of years. Traditional medicine encompasses the…
Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut feeling. These are all phrases many people use to describe fear and anxiety. You have likely felt anxiety inside your chest or stomach, and your brain usually doesn’t hurt when you’re scared. Many cultures tie cowardice and bravery more to the heart or the guts than to the…
In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they’ve been offset by increased demand for energy. That’s why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake – an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but…
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Illustration of all five Lagrange points of Sun-Earth system. ISRO’s solar mission, Aditya-L1, will be placed around Lagrange point L1. | Photo Credit: ANI While Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Aditya-L1 spacecraft is on its way towards the Sun-Earth Lagrange’s Point 1 (L1), the space agency has done assessment of the space situation around L1…
Small chunks of ice float on the water near Fournier Bay, Antarctica, February 3, 2020. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sea ice that packs the ocean around Antarctica hit record low levels this winter, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said on September 25, adding to scientists’ fears that the impact of climate…
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ISRO has successfully completed the CE20 E13 engine hot test for the Gaganyaan qualification and 22-tonne thrust qualification. | Photo Credit: PTI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully completed the CE20 E13 engine hot test for the Gaganyaan qualification and 22-tonne thrust qualification. The engine was tested at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri…
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Geospatial intelligence has offered valuable insights to help governments and organizations protect communities. | Photo Credit: AP With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has presented a range of threats to the safety of the majority of Americans. The good news, through all…
The story so far: September 27 will mark the beginning of a historic legal battle in the climate action movement. The stage: European Court of Human Rights in France’s Strasbourg. The actors in question: 32 European governments (including the U.K., Russia and Turkey) and six young people from Portugal, aged 11 to 24. The plaintiffs…
The Milky Way. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Like the earth’s oceans at their shores, the universe’s galaxies also experience tides, but on a much larger scale. Galactic tides are caused by gravitational forces within a galaxy, arising in the interactions between celestial objects like stars and gas clouds. These tidal forces influence various aspects…
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A seven-year space voyage comes to its climactic end September 24 when a NASA capsule lands in the desert in the U.S. state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system…
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