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New genus of jumping spiders ‘Tenkana’ discovered in south India

October 22, 2024 admin

The newly identified Tenkana jayamangali has been named after the Jayamangali river in Karnataka, where it was first seen | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A team of arachnologists has discovered a new genus of jumping spiders, ‘Tenkana’, found across southern India, encompassing two previously known species. It also introduced a new species, Tenkana jayamangali, from…

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New genus of jumping spiders ‘Tenkana’ discovered in south India

October 22, 2024 admin

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New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source

October 22, 2024 admin

Reporters gather around a piece of a meteorite, which according to local authorities and scientists was lifted from the bottom of the Chebarkul Lake, placed on display in a local museum in Chelyabinsk, October 18, 2013. Each year, roughly 17,000 of these fireballs not only enter Earth’s atmosphere, but survive the perilous journey to the surface. |…

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Colombian scientists develop supplement to protect bees from pesticides

October 22, 2024 admin

Scientists in Colombia say they have developed a novel food supplement that protects bees’ brains from pesticides, keeping the insects safe from neurological damage caused by agricultural chemicals. | Photo Credit: K K Mustafah/The Hindu Scientists in Colombia say they have developed a novel food supplement that protects bees’ brains from pesticides, keeping the insects…

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Ancient meteorite was ‘giant fertilizer bomb’ for life on Earth

October 22, 2024 admin

A bed of rock showing chunks of ripped up seafloor as debris from a tsunami that followed a huge meteorite impact on Earth dating back to about 3.26 billion years ago, seen in a region called the Barberton Greenstone Belt in northeastern South Africa in this undated photograph. | Photo Credit: Reuters The space rock…

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Major Boeing-made communications satellite disintegrates in orbit

October 22, 2024 admin

A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our planet’s neighbourhood. The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary orbit around…

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Black holes in Webb data allay threat to cosmology’s standard model

October 22, 2024 admin

Since NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) almost three years ago, astronomers have been actively searching for clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe. This universe was a dark place: there is no light from this period to tell us how the first stars and galaxies formed, yet uncovering these processes…

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AI’s Cassandra moment

October 21, 2024 admin

AI systems may not be plotting to incinerate humanity, but they are mushrooming at a time when globalisation has withered, and corporations, not countries, are poised to control technological advances and neural networks Source link

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Watch: Nobel prize science winners 2024 | All you need to know

October 21, 2024 admin

Watch: Nobel prize science winners 2024 | All you need to know The 2024 Nobel Prizes in the sciences have recognised groundbreaking research spanning artificial intelligence, gene regulation, and protein structures. In this video, we will look at the recipients and their contributions. Script: Arkatapa Basu Production: Yuvasree S Visuals: AFP, Getty images and nobelprize.org Published…

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The mystery of Déjà vu

October 20, 2024 admin

Déjà vu is a French term that means “already seen.” It describes the strange feeling that you’re repeating a moment, even though it’s happening for the first time. It’s like your mind plays a trick, making you feel as if you’ve been in that exact situation before, even though you haven’t. Why does it happen?…

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