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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’…
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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Upper stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-37 (PSLV C-37 mission) re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on October 6, 2024. The impact point is in the North Atlantic Ocean. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) informed that the upper stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-37 (PSLV C-37 mission)…
In this Sept. 2, 2019 photo, a silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira walks in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. The Spanish government has announced plans to ban harmful experiments on great apes as part of a wider initiative to give them increased rights closer to the ones humans enjoy. | Photo Credit: AP The Spanish government has announced…
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s estimates of the burden of 36 cancers in 185 countries suggest one in five individuals have a lifetime risk of developing cancer. The Agency also estimated that one in nine males and one in 12 females will die of cancer. In all, the agency counted 20 million new…
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Image used for representative purpose only. A diet rich in advanced glycation end products (AGEs) – which includes ultra processed and fast foods – is among the leading cause of India being the world’s diabetic capital notes a first-of-its-kind clinical trial finding published in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, recently. The study…
A diet rich in advanced glycation end products (AGEs) – which includes ultra processed and fast foods – is among the leading cause of India being the world’s diabetic capital notes a first-of-its-kind clinical trial finding published in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, recently. The study was funded by the Department of…
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Victor Ambros (L) and Gary Ruvkun (R) were awarded the prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Photo; X/@NobelPrize Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday (October 7, 2024). They were awarded the…
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Play The Nobel Quiz Learn From the infographics The graphic below showcases all the winners of the Nobel Prize since it”s inception in 1901. The filters provided can be used to view the winners by gender and category. For example, you could select “Category” in the ‘group by’ filter and “Gender” in the ‘shade by’…