Category: Science

A significant chunk of the world’s agricultural productivity and nutritional security relies on small insect pollinators. More than 75% of food crops, fruits, and flowering plants need bees, wasps, beetles, flies, moths, and butterflies to yield successful harvests. This is why threats to insect pollinators, including pesticides, pollution, and climate change, endanger the economies of…

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Every ANN has three components: nodes, edges, and weights. | Photo Credit: 6690img/Unsplash Machine-learning models called artificial neural networks (ANNs) have taken the world by storm, transforming fields ranging from reviving endangered languages to accelerating drug discovery. Every ANN has three components: nodes, edges, and weights. Scientists originally designed ANNs to mimic the learning behaviour…

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Flooding from hurricanes Helene and Milton inflicted billions of dollars in damage across the Southeast U.S. in September and October 2024, pushing buildings off their foundations and undercutting roads and bridges. It also caused dozens of electric vehicles and other battery-powered objects, such as scooters and golf carts, to catch fire. According to one tally,…

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A new variant of human mpox has claimed the lives of approximately 5% of people with reported infections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2023, many of them children. Since then, it has spread to several other countries. In addition, a different but rarely fatal mpox variant was responsible for an outbreak that…

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Corneal blindness is a major cause of blindness in India The International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) marks every second Thursday of October, which falls on October 14 this year, as World Sight Day. The aim is to increase awareness and support efforts to ensure everyone across the world can benefit from vision. This…

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Doctors and paramedical professionals protesting at Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (IOG) and Government Hospital for Women and Children, Egmore in Chennai, on Thursday | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B In a tragic incident at a government hospital in Chennai on November 13, 2024, a doctor was repeatedly stabbed while performing his duties. This follows…

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Doctors and paramedical professionals protesting at Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (IOG) and Government Hospital for Women and Children, Egmore in Chennai, on Thursday. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam In a tragic incident at a government hospital in Chennai on November 13, 2024, a doctor was repeatedly stabbed while performing his duties. This follows…

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