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NASA to launch mission on Oct. 10 to look for habitable spots on Europa moon

October 9, 2024 admin

A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990’s, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed…

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People with autism, ADHD likelier to have eating disorders: study

October 9, 2024 admin

More than 1.1 million Australians are estimated to be living with an eating disorder. Around one-third of these people are neurodivergent. So why are neurodivergent people, such as autistic people and those with ADHD, more likely to experience eating disorders than the broader population? And how does this impact their treatment? First, what is neurodivergence? Neurodivergence, or the state of being neurodivergent,…

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 awarded to David Baker, along with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper

October 9, 2024 admin

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2024 was shared by David Baker “for computational…

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Australia, New Zealand brace for looming bird flu threat

October 9, 2024 admin

A test tube labelled “Bird Flu” and eggs are seen in this picture illustration, January 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating vulnerable species and war-gaming response plans. Oceania is…

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2024 physics Nobel for work on artificial neural networks | Explained

October 9, 2024 admin

Representative illustration. | Photo Credit: Growtika/Unsplash The story so far: On October 8, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize for physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. Their work lies at the roots of a large tree of work, the newest branches of which…

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Study uncovers surprising new ‘spatial grammar’ of gene expression

October 9, 2024 admin

In his quest to understand how each cell of an organism interprets the same genome in a different way, researcher Sascha Duttke wondered whether there might be any undiscovered rules of biology. The human genome contains information about our development, functioning, growth, and reproduction, and all of it takes up only about 2 MB of…

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 awarded to John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton

October 8, 2024 admin

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. Photo: www.nobelprize.org The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on…

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Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires

October 8, 2024 admin

SpaceX has launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a “rescue mission” to bring back two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since June. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams travelled to the space station on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was on its first mission with a human crew. But several engines malfunctioned once in space and the vehicle was found…

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Why don’t ants get hurt when they fall down?

October 8, 2024 admin

Representative image of an ant. | Photo Credit: David Higgins/Unsplash Q: Ants don’t get hurt when they fall. Why? A: The fall of a body is controlled mainly by the gravitational attraction of the earth. The strength of the gravitational force depends on the mass of the falling object. A heavier object is thus ‘attracted’…

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Limestone, iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Australia 100,000 years ago

October 8, 2024 admin

Almost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years. | Photo Credit: Matej Lipar/The Conversation Almost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface…

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