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Sci five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on bones 1 / 5 | The smallest bone in the human body is found in the ears. What is it called? The incus The stapes The malleus The pinna The stapes are the smallest bone in the human body. Along with the incus and the malleus all…
A smartphone with a Neuralink logo displayed is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on May 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to…
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A smartphone with a Neuralink logo displayed is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken on May 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to…
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Under the Gaganyaan programme, ISRO intends to carry out three un-crewed space missions and one crewed mission. The first un-crewed mission is scheduled to take place in 2024-25, and the first crewed mission is scheduled in 2025-27. | Photo Credit: File photo Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Australian Space Agency (ASA) have signed an…
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It all started with a snake bite back in 2005. Dr. P. Gowri Shankar was rescuing a king cobra when the ten-foot-long snake suddenly struck him. “You can die within 20 minutes if you get bitten,” says the founder-director of the Kālinga Foundation (kaalinga sarpa is Kannada for King Cobra) located in the Agumbe rainforests…
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The world’s population is growing and more people need more food. But indiscriminately expanding agricultural land and practice is not desirable. Cutting forests to plant more crops will only push already-fragile ecosystems over the edge. Dousing fields with pesticides is similarly toxic and depletes soils and groundwater. The genetically modified (GM) crops provide a way…
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Rescuers assist residents on a boat as they wade through a flooded road following heavy rains brought by Typhoon Gaemi, Marikina City, Philippines, July 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that…
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The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Indian Institute of Science researchers have devised a new language that encodes the shape and structure of nanopores in the form of a sequence of characters. This language devised by Ananth Govind Rajan’s lab and the study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society can be used…
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GUWAHATI A global project partnered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat refractive errors will soon be implemented in Assam. SPECS 2030 or Strengthening Provision of Eye Care Services project, the WHO’s first at a large scale in South Asia and Southeast Asia, aims to address the need to combat refractive errors, the leading…
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More than any organism, plants understand the significance of communication the best. They have a full, rich life of constant communication. While they don’t have a voice, plants do have their language through which they impart informations to others. So, how do they do it? Chemical warning Plants often stay alert of potential threats and…