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Climate change intensified rain that caused Wayanad landslides: study

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Climate change intensified rain that caused Wayanad landslides: study

A damaged car at the landslide site in Wayanad following torrential downpours. | Photo Credit: National Disaster Response Force/AFP Heavy rain made about 10% stronger by human-caused climate change triggered the landslides that killed more than 200 people in India’s southern state of Kerala last month, a team of international scientists has concluded. The landslides…

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Melting polar ice due to climate change is making earth’s days longer

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Melting polar ice due to climate change is making earth’s days longer

The coastline of a small island off the coast of Antarctica, seen from a window on a commercial flight, February 8, 2017. After the previous ice age, a lot of ice melted from the northernmost and the southernmost parts of the earth, causing the planet to spin faster. | Photo Credit: Matt Palmer/Unsplash In yet…

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Nirmala Sitharaman: Wish I could bring taxes to almost nil but India needs to fund research

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Nirmala Sitharaman: Wish I could bring taxes to almost nil but India needs to fund research

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the officers of the Income Tax department from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh region, in Bhopal. | Photo Credit: ANI Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that she wished she could bring down the taxes in the country to “almost nil” but India’s challenges are severe and they…

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First vegetation map reveals a battle for Antarctica’s changing landscape 

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First vegetation map reveals a battle for Antarctica’s changing landscape 

A heatmap showing where vegetation occurs across the vast expense of the Antarctic continent. | Photo Credit: Andrew Gray/The Conversation A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It…

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Greenland ice found at risk of melting at CO2 levels lower than today’s

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Greenland ice found at risk of melting at CO2 levels lower than today’s

As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-coloured spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view. These were unmistakably the remains of an arctic tundra ecosystem…

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The tech that keeps our vehicles from bumping into each other | Explained

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The tech that keeps our vehicles from bumping into each other | Explained

Vehicular traffic is a mainstay of modern life. Either people want to get from one place to the next or they want to send things. As the demand for such transport has increased, so have the number of transport options people have invented and the number of places to deploy them in. Today, thus, we…

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Huge underground reservoir of liquid water on Mars, seismic data indicates

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Huge underground reservoir of liquid water on Mars, seismic data indicates

This image provided by NASA shows the InSight Mars lander in a selfie photo composite on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. | Photo Credit: AP An immense reservoir of liquid water may reside deep under the surface of Mars within fractured igneous rocks, holding enough to fill an…

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Daily Quiz, August 12, 2024: On Vikram Sarabhai’s life beyond ISRO

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Daily Quiz, August 12, 2024: On Vikram Sarabhai’s life beyond ISRO

Updated – August 13, 2024 05:25 pm IST Published – August 12, 2024 05:00 pm IST Daily Quiz: On Vikram Sarabhai’s life beyond ISRO A view of the Halcyon Castle, the place where Vikram Sarabhai died. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Name the national research institute Sarabhai founded in November 1947. In its…

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U.S. FDA approves first nasal spray to treat dangerous allergic reactions

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U.S. FDA approves first nasal spray to treat dangerous allergic reactions

 Products like the EpiPen auto-injector, approved in 1987, were authorized based on chemistry and manufacturing data and were not required to prove safety and efficacy. File photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: AP U.S. health officials on Friday, August 9, 2024, approved a nasal spray to treat severe allergic reactions, the first…

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Scientists brace for a ’flood of junk’ papers written with AI help

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Scientists brace for a ’flood of junk’ papers written with AI help

An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. Another showing human legs with way too many bones. An introduction that starts: “Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic”. These are a few of the most egregious examples of artificial intelligence that have recently made their way into scientific journals, shining a…

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