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Is it possible to reduce the risk of depression?

September 16, 2023 admin

A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, healthy sleep and frequent social connection, while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behaviour, reduces the risk of depression, new research has found (Nature Mental Health). The researchers looked at a combination of factors including lifestyle factors, genetics, brain structure and…

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Over 75% of European bumblebee species threatened in the next 40-60 years

September 16, 2023 admin

More than 75% of European bumblebee species may be threatened in the next 40-60 years according to worst-case-scenario projections of bumblebee populations, according to a paper published in Nature. Degradation of habitats and alterations of climate due to human activity are identified as key drivers of these estimated population declines. The findings underscore the importance of…

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Why Nipah virus outbreaks are occurring only in Kerala

September 16, 2023 admin

Health workers wait to admit patients at a Nipah isolation ward at the Medical College, in Kozhikode on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI Since May 2018 when Kerala reported the first Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode district, there have been three more outbreaks of Nipah virus including the latest one in late-August 2023. For reasons still…

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The cosmological constant problem is one of the biggest crises in physics

September 15, 2023 admin

Supernova remnant SNR 0454-67.2 is likely the result of a Type Ia supernova explosion. In the late 1990s, scientists studied the light from such supernovae to find that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. | Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Can you get rid of all the energy in the room in which you are reading this?…

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Fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya-L1 mission performed successfully

September 15, 2023 admin

he fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya-L1 mission has been performed successfully in the early hours of September 15. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@isro The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya-L1 mission has been performed successfully in the early hours of September 15. “Aditya-L1 Mission: The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully. ISRO’s ground stations…

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IIT Guwahati researchers turn tea factory waste to pharma products

September 14, 2023 admin

Image used for representative purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images GUWAHATI A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed pharmaceutical and food products from tea factory wastes. Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages on the globe with the world tea consumption expected to rise…

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This week’s Sci-Five quiz is on famous mathematicians.

September 14, 2023 admin

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Mathematicians 1 / 5 | Who is often called the “Father of Geometry”? Galileo Galilei Euclid Pythagoras Archimedes Euclid, often called the father of geometry, changed the way we learn about shapes with his 13-book series, Euclid’s Elements. He used basic ideas called axioms or postulates to create…

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23 private companies in race for SSLV tech transfer from ISRO

September 14, 2023 admin

Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) Chairman Pawan Kumar Goenka with former ISRO chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar at the International Conference on Space 2023, in Bengaluru on September 14, 2023. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will facilitate transfer of technology (ToT) for the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to one private company. In…

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The Science Quiz | Make way for the railway technologies express

September 14, 2023 admin

Questions: 1. A German engineer built the first train powered by electricity in 1879. He also founded a company that is a major electrical engineering multinational corporation today, and his name has been adopted as the SI unit of __________ ___________. Name the engineer and fill in the blanks. 2. In April 1869, George Westinghouse,…

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Study traces Turkey quake to interrupted ‘chat’ between fault lines

September 13, 2023 admin

On February 6, 2023, a pair of powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, leaving destruction in their wake. The latest known death toll is 50,000; more than a lakh other people were injured in 11 provinces. At least 1.5 crore people and 40 lakh buildings were affected; some 3.45 lakh apartments were destroyed. The earthquakes…

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