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Britain is to rejoin the Horizon Europe science research programme under a new bespoke deal, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office and the EU said on September 7. | Photo Credit: Reuters Britain is to rejoin the Horizon Europe science research programme under a new bespoke deal, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office and the EU said…
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Britain is to rejoin the Horizon Europe science research programme under a new bespoke deal, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office and the EU said on September 7. | Photo Credit: Reuters Britain is rejoining the European Union’s $100 billion science-sharing program Horizon Europe, the two sides announced on September 7, more than two years after…
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A reconstruction of the bird-like dinosaur Fujianvenator prodigiosus. | Photo Credit: Reuters About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling anatomy suggesting it either was a fast runner or lived a lifestyle like a modern…
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File picture of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023. This monumental achievement firmly cemented India’s position as one major players in the space community. Since then Chandrayaan-3 has found sulphur, a temperature difference of 50°C between the surface and 10…
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Chandrayaan-3 lander is in the centre of the image. Its dark shadow is visible against the bright halo surrounding the vehicle. The image is 1,738 meters wide; frame No. M1447750764LR. | Photo Credit: LROC National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has spotted the Chandrayaan-3 Lander Module landing site on the surface…
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Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and even the fruitfulness of livelihoods. | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj B/The Hindu Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for…
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Q: A logic gate is a device that performs a logical operation on the inputs it receives. E.g., the value of 1 OR 0 is 1 and the value of 1 AND 0 is 0. Name the branch of algebra that deals with such combinations and their underlying theory. A: Boolean algebra Q: Very large…
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Point plotting on Cartesian plane. A coordinate system is a set of numbers that allows you to specify the location of a point in some space. The Cartesian coordinates is one such system, which uses a set of three numbers to specify the distance of a point from three perpendicular planes. In general, this system…
Daily Quiz | On scales that measure hurricanes Representational image of waves crashing into a sea wall in England START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Name the wind-speed scale first developed in 1969, with modifications bringing it into its modern form in 1971, to assess the likely impact on low-cost housing of a storm…
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In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. On close inspection, the rocks turned out to be from outer space: lumps of rubble billions of years old, left over from the dawn of the Solar System….
