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Elon Musk’s Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial

A smartphone with a Neuralink logo displayed is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on May 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to…

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial

A smartphone with a Neuralink logo displayed is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on May 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to…

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ISRO signs implementing agreement with Australian Space Agency for Gaganyaan mission

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ISRO signs implementing agreement with Australian Space Agency for Gaganyaan mission

Under the Gaganyaan programme, ISRO intends to carry out three un-crewed space missions and one crewed mission. The first un-crewed mission is scheduled to take place in 2024-25, and the first crewed mission is scheduled in 2025-27. | Photo Credit: File photo Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Australian Space Agency (ASA) have signed an…

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‘I wanted every Kannadiga to feel proud of the king cobra’

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‘I wanted every Kannadiga to feel proud of the king cobra’

It all started with a snake bite back in 2005. Dr. P. Gowri Shankar was rescuing a king cobra when the ten-foot-long snake suddenly struck him. “You can die within 20 minutes if you get bitten,” says the founder-director of the Kālinga Foundation (kaalinga sarpa is Kannada for King Cobra) located in the Agumbe rainforests…

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GM crops can help fight hunger — depending on how they are farmed

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GM crops can help fight hunger — depending on how they are farmed

The world’s population is growing and more people need more food. But indiscriminately expanding agricultural land and practice is not desirable. Cutting forests to plant more crops will only push already-fragile ecosystems over the edge. Dousing fields with pesticides is similarly toxic and depletes soils and groundwater. The genetically modified (GM) crops provide a way…

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Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it’s unclear

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Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it’s unclear

Rescuers assist residents on a boat as they wade through a flooded road following heavy rains brought by Typhoon Gaemi, Marikina City, Philippines, July 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that…

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IISc researchers devise a new language for ML models

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IISc researchers devise a new language for ML models

The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Indian Institute of Science researchers have devised a new language that encodes the shape and structure of nanopores in the form of a sequence of characters. This language devised by Ananth Govind Rajan’s lab and the study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society can be used…

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Major WHO-partnered eye care project in Assam soon

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Major WHO-partnered eye care project in Assam soon

GUWAHATI A global project partnered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat refractive errors will soon be implemented in Assam. SPECS 2030 or Strengthening Provision of Eye Care Services project, the WHO’s first at a large scale in South Asia and Southeast Asia, aims to address the need to combat refractive errors, the leading…

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SpaceX’s Starship launches 6th Flight; first ever payload was a stuffed banana

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SpaceX’s Starship launches 6th Flight; first ever payload was a stuffed banana

SpaceX employees erupted in cheers during a live feed watched by nearly nine million viewers [File] | Photo Credit: Reuters Flight six of Starship was seen as a test of whether SpaceX’s first booster catch was pure precision or relied on a stroke of luck after Musk – perhaps inadvertently – disclosed how close the…

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