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The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified Thursday (September 19, 2024) that the sub had malfunctioned just before the fatal dive. Appearing before a U.S. Coast Guard panel, Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the…
A handout illustration shows the newly identified Jurassic Period flying reptile, or pterosaur, called ‘Dearc sgiathanach’, whose fossil was found on a rocky beach at Scotland’s Isle of Skye, flying alongside a large meat-eating dinosaur. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a…
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One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world’s largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Antimatter The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel is pictured during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Who predicted the existence of antimatter in 1928? Albert Einstein Paul Dirac Niels Bohr Enrico…
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This artist’s concept shows a galaxy with a brilliant quasar, a very bright, distant and active supermassive black hole that is millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, at its center, seen in this undated handout picture. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite…
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Francesca Gino’s reputation precedes her in the behavioural science community. Once touted as an expert on dishonesty and negotiation, she has been at the centre of an academic misconduct scandal for the past few years. In a nutshell, independent researchers Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons, and Uri Simonsohn identified inconsistencies and data manipulation associated with at…
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Dr. Philippe Baptiste, Chairman and CEO of Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), interacting with The Hindu, during the 8th edition of Bengaluru Space Expo 2024 (BSX), a Biennial International Exhibition, by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in association with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), on Tumkuru road…
Philippe Baptiste, Chairman and CEO of Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), during the 8th edition of Bengaluru Space Expo 2024 (BSX), a biennial international exhibition by the CII in association with ISRO, Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, September 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K Philippe Baptiste, President of the French Space Agency, Centre National…
Bengaluru-based space startup Bellatrix Aerospace | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Bengaluru-based space startup Bellatrix Aerospace on Wednesday (September 18, 2024) unveiled Project 200, an innovative satellite designed to operate at an Ultra-Low Earth Orbit (180 km-250 km) on the inaugural day of the Bengaluru Space Expo 2024. The startup said that this orbit transforms today’s…
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File photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: AFP More than 3,600 chemicals used in food packaging or preparation have been detected in human bodies, some of which are hazardous to health, while little is known about others, a study published on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, said. Around 100 of these chemicals are…
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