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What is aircraft turbulence and how common is it? | Explainer

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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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Brazil’s Amazon fires off to record 2024 start as green union blames firefighting budget cut

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Smoke from burning vegetation rises in a rainforest in Yanomami Indigenous land, Roraima state, Brazil, March 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has experienced its largest blazes on record in the first four months of the year, with the environmental workers union on Monday placing partial blame on lower government spending on…

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New plant species discovered from Edamalayar forest range

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Emblica chakrabartyi, the new plant species discovered from the Edamalayar forest range of Kerala | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Scientists from SNM College Maliankara, Ernakulam, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, and King Fahd University, UAE, have reported the discovery of a new plant species Emblica chakrabartyi from Adichilthotti within the Edamalayar forest range of Kerala….

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Balancing two forms of SNCA protein could help manage Parkinson’s, study finds

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Synuclein alpha (SNCA) is a mysterious protein. It’s present in healthy cells but we don’t know what it does there. It is notorious for its involvement in age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Twenty-seven years ago, researchers first associated SNCA with Parkinson’s disease. People with this disease lose neurons that communicate with each other using dopamine as a…

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America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 60 years later on Bezos rocket

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A general view of the Blue Origin site near Van Horn, Texas, U.S.. | Photo Credit: Reuters America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on May 19. Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate…

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When Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet

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It’s funny when you think about the fact that the Halley’s Comet is named after an English astronomer who lived in the 17th-18th Centuries, despite having been spotted and observed for over two millennia. In fact, this astronomer is considered the discoverer of the comet, even though he certainly wasn’t the first human to take…

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