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A bed of rock showing chunks of ripped up seafloor as debris from a tsunami that followed a huge meteorite impact on Earth dating back to about 3.26 billion years ago, seen in a region called the Barberton Greenstone Belt in northeastern South Africa in this undated photograph. | Photo Credit: Reuters The space rock…
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A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our planet’s neighbourhood. The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary orbit around…
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Since NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) almost three years ago, astronomers have been actively searching for clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe. This universe was a dark place: there is no light from this period to tell us how the first stars and galaxies formed, yet uncovering these processes…
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AI systems may not be plotting to incinerate humanity, but they are mushrooming at a time when globalisation has withered, and corporations, not countries, are poised to control technological advances and neural networks Source link
Watch: Nobel prize science winners 2024 | All you need to know The 2024 Nobel Prizes in the sciences have recognised groundbreaking research spanning artificial intelligence, gene regulation, and protein structures. In this video, we will look at the recipients and their contributions. Script: Arkatapa Basu Production: Yuvasree S Visuals: AFP, Getty images and nobelprize.org Published…
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Déjà vu is a French term that means “already seen.” It describes the strange feeling that you’re repeating a moment, even though it’s happening for the first time. It’s like your mind plays a trick, making you feel as if you’ve been in that exact situation before, even though you haven’t. Why does it happen?…
It has long been known that humans carry multiple copies of a gene that allows us to begin breaking down complex carbohydrate starch in the mouth, providing the first step in metabolizing starchy foods like bread and pasta. However, it has been notoriously difficult for researchers to determine how and when the number of these…
India consumes 540,000 metric tonnes of tea each year Tea plants came to India from China and Southeastern Asia about three centuries ago, brought here by India by the British colonialists. While experimenting to introduce tea in India, they noticed that tea plants with thicker leaves also grew in Assam, and these, when planted in…
Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the darkness in a perpetual rhythm. Yet, how single-celled phytoplankton, most of which have no appendages to help them swim, make this pilgrimage has remained a mystery. In a paper published in the journal Current…
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TB remains a major public health problem in India with an estimated three million new patients with TB and 3,00,000 TB deaths every year. The recent announcement by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of doubling the direct benefit transfer from ₹500 to ₹1,000 per month in the Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) for the…
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