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Monarch butterflies gather on a shrub at Piedra Herrada sanctuary in the mountains near Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Wednesday, January 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the monarch butterfly as a threatened species on Tuesday (December 10, 2024), citing a significant decline in the iconic black and…
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(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) When some object stands in the path of light, the object casts a shadow behind it. It’s the place the light can’t reach because of the object. The question is…
Questions: 1. On December 10, 1907, the Brown Dog riots in London saw around a thousand medical students clash with police over what the students perceived to be a threat to their ability to conduct ____________, a procedure in which a live animal is dissected. Fill in the blank. 2. The Brown Dog riots were…
Genetic studies have painted a neat picture of human evolution and migration around the world. By studying how frequently DNA in the mitochondria (the cellular structure responsible for producing energy) mutates, scientists have found that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa for millennia, then emigrated to different parts of the world. Scientists mostly agree on this…
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‘There is likely to be strong private sector interest in India to take up contracts with the right incentives’ | Photo Credit: PTI India has set ambitious goals for its space programme in the next two decades. These goals hinge on powerful, reusable rockets such as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s upcoming Next Generation…
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Image for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Reuters Longevity has always been the Holy Grail of medicine, and extending life beyond its conceivable end has driven kings, researchers and pharma companies alike through a roller-coaster ride that invariably stops at ground level, no wonder the search continues. Now, it is an Indian group from…
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The Centre’s One-Nation-One-Subscription scheme will more than triple the number of State-affiliated colleges and individual beneficiaries who can access research papers – in the sciences and humanities. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar The Centre’s One-Nation-One-Subscription (ONOS) scheme will more than triple the number of State-affiliated colleges and individual beneficiaries who can…
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The first of three KLM passenger planes heading to New York takes off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday April 19, 2010. | Photo Credit: AP Amsterdam Schiphol airport’s total flight capacity will be lowered by 4% next year in an effort to cut noise pollution, the Dutch government said on Friday (December 6,…
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Spiral galaxy NGC 628, located 32 million light-years away from Earth, is seen in an undated image from the James Webb Space Telescope. | Photo Credit: Reuters Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause – perhaps some unknown factor involving the mysterious…
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One of the most astonishing facts about the natural world is the existence of antiparticles. Theorised by the English physicist Paul A.M. Dirac in 1928 and observed in cosmic rays by American physicist Carl Anderson in 1932, an antiparticle is a ‘partner’ of a particle type that has the same mass but opposite charge. For…
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