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How anaesthetic drugs work in the brain has largely remained a mystery since it was introduced into medicine over 180 years ago. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general…
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Last month, the leaders of the G7 declared their commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Closer to home, the Albanese government recently introduced legislation to establish a Net Zero Economy Authority, promising it will catalyse investment in clean energy technologies in the push to reach net zero. Pledges to achieve net zero emissions…
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Last month, the leaders of the G7 declared their commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. Closer to home, the Albanese government recently introduced legislation to establish a Net Zero Economy Authority, promising it will catalyse investment in clean energy technologies in the push to reach net zero. Pledges to achieve net zero emissions…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On first human to enter space The world’s first manned spaceship is put on public display for first time on April 29, 1965. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Who was the first person to enter outer space? Yuri Artyukhin Ivan Anikeyev Yuri Gagarin Yuri Baturin Yuri Gagarin…
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Silkworm are seen at a farm in Matanzas, Cuba, May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Cuban biochemist Dayron Martin, dressed in a white lab coat and jeans, looks over a table swarming with silkworms with the admiration of a proud father. Hundreds of the cream-coloured caterpillars squiggle across a bed of dark green mulberry…
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The sun sets over the mountains, as a geomagnetic storm continues hitting the Earth, in Ronda, Spain, May 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters New research indicates the sun’s magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought, a finding that could help predict periods of extreme solar storms like the ones that…
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Coconut trees (like many other plants) get water from the ground through their roots. | Photo Credit: Freepik Water is a fundamental element for the sustenance of life, and in the case of coconuts, it plays a vital role in their growth and development. Anatomy of coconut Designed to thrive in harsh environments, the coconut…
Questions: 1. Name the assistant in Humphrey Davy’s lab who, in 1823, liquefied all the gases known at the time excluding hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. In the post-industrial era, Davy was among the first scientists to deduce atoms were not indivisible by observing the physical properties of matter. 2. In 1900, German physicist ____ _____…
In 1961, Mary Frances Lyon argued that one of the X chromosomes in females is randomly inactivated during early embryonic development to prevent the overexpression of X-linked genes. Representative illustration. | Photo Credit: BlackJack3D/Getty Images In mammals, the females have two copies of the X chromosome while the males carry a single copy. The X…
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The interior of Singapore Airline flight SQ321 is pictured after an emergency landing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand, May 21, 2024. One passenger died and 30 others were injured after the plane hit severe turbulence. | Photo Credit: Reuters Turbulence-related incidents are common, but fatal incidents are rare. What should you do when there…
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