Category: Science

Logs tagged for export are lined up along the Suriname River near Asidonhopo, Suriname, July 14, 1995. | Photo Credit: AP Suriname’s government has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its tropical forests, a move conservationists say is among the most ambitious commitments to climate and biodiversity ever made by an Amazonian nation. The announcement…

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Maize (Zea mays) has long stood at the intersection of human culture and the natural world. Originating from teosinte, a wild grass domesticated in Mesoamerica over 9,000 years ago, it was gradually transformed through centuries of selective breeding by Indigenous farmers. From a small-eared plant with a handful of hard kernels, maize thus evolved into…

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The Astrosat spacecraft is seen before launch | Photo Credit: ISRO Multi-messenger astronomy is a relatively new way to study the universe by using more than one kind of “messenger” from space. For a long time, astronomy was almost entirely based on light, i.e. what we see through telescopes, across the spectrum from radio waves…

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Battery energy storage systems are key to balancing India’s growing renewable power. But limited manufacturing, high costs, and lithium import dependence raise big questions about India’s clean energy future. Source link

Between 2000 and 2015, the world’s fight against malaria made remarkable progress, with millions of lives saved through better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Of late, however, that momentum has slowed. In 2023 alone, malaria claimed nearly 6 lakh lives, with 95% of those deaths occurring in the African region. India has made dramatic progress too, with…

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An acronym that stayed… Late in the 1940s, following the end of World War II, a small number of visionary scientists – including Danish physicists Niels Bohr and French physicist Louis de Broglie – became aware of the need for Europe to have a world-class physics research centre. By December 1951, with some assistance from…

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