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A herd of wildebeest kicking up dust as it runs across a field in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, October 29, 2021. | Photo Credit: Hari Nandakumar/Unsplash Q: Where does dust come from and why does it reappear so soon after we dust? — Ramajayam D. A: Terrestrial dust is mostly tiny fragments abraded…
Solar cells. India has the world’s fifth-largest installed solar power capacity of 84 GW and aims to ramp up to 280 GW by 2030. With land for solar energy parks increasingly becoming a constraint, Solex Energy Limited announced that it plans to manufacture India’s first “rectangular” solar cells. | Photo Credit: REUTERS With land for solar…
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Record-breaking heat waves scorching cities, landslides and floods sweeping away whole towns — the world is currently in the grip of a climate emergency. More than 2,300 local governments in more than 40 countries around the world have declared it. At this time, when climate change is affecting the earth in unprecedented ways, climate scientists…
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Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In 2023, the government did away with a bevy of awards conferred to scientists by the science ministries and their various institutes and departments. The decision was polarising but many, including outside the government, argued in favour of the move saying there were just too many awards…
Mount Everest is the earth’s tallest mountain – towering 8.85 km above sea level – and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an inexorable uplift that dates back to their birth roughly 50 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent collided with Eurasia, Everest is growing more…
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A file photo of a glider deployed in INCOIS in Arabian Sea. | Photo Credit: Handle @ESSO_INCOIS on X Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) together with the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) will be launching a glider near the country’s research station ‘Bharati’ at Antarctica to study the sea…
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Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: Reuters Effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on Earth may have reached the Moon, as lunar temperatures were found to have abnormally dipped during April-May 2020, according to a study. Maximum temperatures on the Earth’s natural satellite fell in this period, while nights were found to be cooler…
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On August 28, two members of an experiment at conferences in Chicago and São Paulo had an announcement to make. They were representing about 200 of their colleagues involved in the design, building, and operation of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment located 1.5 km below the earth’s surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South…
Read More “Not just nothing, dark matter quests close in on dire ‘neutrino fog’” »
An image of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) captured in North Bengaluru early on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Deepak Choudhary Over the last couple of days, the Bengaluru skies have been witnessing a rare celestial event as a non-periodic comet has been visible in the early hours of the day. The comet which has been spotted…
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An artist’s impression shows a rocky planet orbiting a stellar remnant called a white dwarf roughly 4,200 light years from Earth in this undated illustration. | Photo Credit: Reuters The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned-out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions…
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