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

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

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

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Colombian scientists develop supplement to protect bees from pesticides

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

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

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

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Major Boeing-made communications satellite disintegrates in orbit

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

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

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

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

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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When did the duplication of a gene responsible for breaking down complex carbohydrate starch in the mouth occur?

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When did the duplication of a gene responsible for breaking down complex carbohydrate starch in the mouth occur?

It has long been known that humans carry multiple copies of a gene that allows us to begin breaking down complex carbohydrate starch in the mouth, providing the first step in metabolizing starchy foods like bread and pasta. However, it has been notoriously difficult for researchers to determine how and when the number of these…

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