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At a ceremony during an official visit to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, on February 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed the names of the four astronaut-candidates for the first human spaceflight mission, a.k.a. Gaganyaan, of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). They are group captains Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan, and…
Striped marlin are some of the fastest animals on the planet and one of the ocean’s top predators. When hunting in groups, individual marlin will take turns attacking schools of prey fish one at a time. Now a new study (Current Biology) explains how they might coordinate this turn-taking style of attack on their prey to avoid injuring…
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The proposed Pennar-Palar-Cauvery link canal connects the Mahanadi and Godavari rivers with the deficit rivers further south These days, the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. The public has come to view it with mixed perceptions. On one side, it is a problem-solver: AI has helped in monitoring heart problems and eye conditions…
The article on high-risk pregnancies in The Hindu on February 17 astutely drew public attention to a matter of great concern to the obstetrics and gynaecology community, but often overlooked by the rest of the country. India has great strides in decreasing maternal mortality — from an MMR of 130/100,000 live births in 2016-2018 to a MMR…
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The Science Quiz appears thrice a week in the daily Science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper. Questions: 1. ______ is the strongest muscle in the human body relative to its size and is located in the jaw. What is the name of this powerful jaw muscle?…
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This image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon. File. | Photo Credit: AP Japan’s Moon lander has been put back to sleep…
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1. It is common knowledge that there are 365 days in a calendar year. However, 365 days is an approximation: the earth actually takes 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds to go around the Sun once in its orbit. What is the latter length of time called? 2. Over four years or…
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Woodpeckers 1 / 5 | What is a group of woodpeckers called? A murder A bevvy A descent A kettle Many different types of birds have their names when it comes to a group, or flock, of them. A group of woodpeckers is called a “descent”. Next 2…
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A photograph of Melanochlamys droupadi, a head-shield sea slug with ruby red spot. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Zoological Survey of India named a new marine species of head-shield sea slug with ruby red spot which was discovered from West Bengal and Odisha coast after President of India Droupadi Murmu. This species belonging to Melanochlamys…
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Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Two new studies from the Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, explore how closely attention and eye movements are linked and unveil how the brain coordinates the two processes. According to IISc, attention is a unique phenomenon that allows us to focus on a specific object in our visual…
