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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!) Until now, scientists believed that there was no binary star system near Sagittarius A*, which is a supermassive black hole located at the centre of our Milky Way. However, new…
Chinese astronauts for the Shenzhou-18 mission, from right, Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu wave as they attend a send-off ceremony for their manned space mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or…
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At the bottom of the oceans and seas lie more than 8,500 shipwrecks from two world wars. These wrecks have been estimated to contain as much as 6 billion gallons of oil, as well as munitions, toxic heavy metals and even chemical weapons. For decades, these wrecks have largely lain out of sight and out of mind. But all…
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This artist’s illustration shows the wayward interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah) racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. The object, heated by the Sun (lower right), is venting gaseous material from its surface, as a comet would. | Photo Credit: Reuters In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar…
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Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them as a philosophical reminder of the duality of life and death, good and evil. | Photo Credit: Tesla Monson/The Conversation Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and vitality, while others see them…
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Questions: 1. Fifty-five years ago on this day, the US Air Force concluded its 17-year investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the threat they posed to national security. What was the codename of this exercise? 2. On December 13, Larry Hogan, the governor of Maryland state in the USA, posted a video on a…
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If the aviation sector was a country, it would be among the world’s top 10 greenhouse-gas emitting nations. Air travel is one of the most polluting modes of travel for its relatively higher carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions and the effects of vapour trails and gases it deposits in the atmosphere. But even within…
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The kit consists of a trouser, pullover and a face-cover made of ‘oxime fabric’ that can chemically breakdown any of the common pesticides that get sprayed onto cloth or body during spraying operations. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Akin to the protective PPE kits that health workers don, scientists affiliated to the Department of Biotechnology…
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Representative image of a digital calculator. | Photo Credit: Doston Nabotov Q: Why are the rows on a calculator or number keypad arranged with the lowest numbers at the bottom when we normally read from top to bottom? And why are phone keypads arranged with the lowest numbers at the top? A: Mechanical adding machines,…
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Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday (December 17, 2024) that they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent problem of orbital congestion. Tokyo-based Orbital Lasers and Indian robotics company…
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