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Solar Electric Vehicle Championship from March 27-31 in Manipal

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Solar Electric Vehicle Championship from March 27-31 in Manipal

A file photo of a student at an Solar Electric Vehicle Championship. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), a constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, will organise Solar Electric Vehicle Championship (SEVC) 2024, in collaboration with Coimbatore Society of Racing Minds, from March 27 t0 31 in Manipal. The…

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Fighting every wildfire makes bigger fires more extreme, study says

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Fighting every wildfire makes bigger fires more extreme, study says

A soldier works to contain wildfires in Nogales, in the High Mountains area of Veracruz state, Mexico, Monday, March 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires…

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50,000-year-old magnetic fossils found in the Bay of Bengal

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50,000-year-old magnetic fossils found in the Bay of Bengal

Needle, spindle, bullet and spearhead shape-magnetofossils. | Photo Credit: Kadam, N et al/Nature In the depths of the Bay of Bengal, scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old sediment — a giant magnetofossil and one of the youngest to be found yet.  What are magentofossils? Magnetofossils are the fossilised remains of magnetic particles created by magnetotactic bacteria, also…

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Goa scientists find 50,000-year-old magnetic fossils in Bay of Bengal

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Goa scientists find 50,000-year-old magnetic fossils in Bay of Bengal

Needle, spindle, bullet and spearhead shape-magnetofossils. | Photo Credit: Kadam, N et al/Nature In the depths of the Bay of Bengal, scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old sediment — a giant magnetofossil and one of the youngest to be found yet.  What are magentofossils? Magnetofossils are the fossilised remains of magnetic particles created by magnetotactic bacteria, also…

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ISRO’s POEM-3 mission accomplishes zero orbital debris mission

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ISRO’s POEM-3 mission accomplishes zero orbital debris mission

The milestone was achieved on March 21, 2024, the ISRO said. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on March 25 said that it has achieved another milestone as the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module-3 (POEM-3) met its fiery end through a re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.   The ISRO said that milestone…

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Why do so many contemporary vaccines have low durability? | Explained

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Why do so many contemporary vaccines have low durability? | Explained

Once an individual has received a measles jab, they are usually considered protected against measles disease for their entire life. The measles vaccine is one of the most potent vaccines in our armamentarium today. But this is not the case with most other vaccines. One needs to take several boosters for a long protection. Why…

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Dogs understand more than they let on, create mental images of known words: Study

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Dogs understand more than they let on, create mental images of known words: Study

Photo used for representation purpose only | Photo Credit: V. Raju Known to respond to command words such as “sit”, dogs have now been found to conjure up mental representations when they hear known words referring to objects such as a ball, according to a new research that analysed their brain activity. The researchers said…

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How are semiconductors fabricated? | Explained

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How are semiconductors fabricated? | Explained

While the physical realm of human activity contains an array of languages, the digital realm is founded on just one fundamental binary language: the 1s and 0s, also called the bits of data. Computers represent these bits as electrical signals and this forms the foundation of modern computing, communication, social media, robotics, and artificial intelligence….

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Can ‘good sounds’ help coral islands recover from bleaching?

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Can ‘good sounds’ help coral islands recover from bleaching?

Staghorn corals seen in the waters off Man Nai Island, near Rayong province, Thailand, February 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Climate change is the most serious environmental problem facing the world today. One of the main reasons for this is the global warming caused by the extraction of coal and oil, which have been…

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IAU approves ‘Statio Shiv Shakti’ as name for Chandrayaan-3 landing site

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IAU approves ‘Statio Shiv Shakti’ as name for Chandrayaan-3 landing site

An image of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander, clicked through a Pragyan rover’s navigation camera, and released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). | Photo Credit: ANI The International Astronomical Union (IAU) working group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved the name Statio Shiv Shakti for the landing site of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander. The approval was given…

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