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The H5N1 virus has had a single point of introduction in late 2023 and spread undetected among cattle in the U.S. What started as a mystery disease in one cattle herd in Texas in March and quickly confirmed as Avian Influenza A H5N1 has now quickly grown to 36 herds across nine states in the…
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Image for representational purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Science Quiz appears thrice a week in the daily Science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper. Questions: 1. Malaria is caused by parasites transmitted through the bite of this female mosquito, discovered in 1897…
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is rolled past a mural of itself on the side of the building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, before dawn, November 22, 2019. The spaceship is scheduled to fly on May 7 IST. | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: At 8.04 am IST on May 7,…
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File picture of the lunar lander of the Chang’e-4 probe in a photo taken in 2019. | Photo Credit: AP China on May 3 launched a lunar probe mission to collect samples for the first time from the far side of the moon and bring them to Earth for scientific studies. The Chang’e-6 mission is…
Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The country’s fossil fuel-based power generation capacity increased 2.44% to 243.22 GW in FY24 from 237.27 GW in March 2023, according to official figures. There was a 10.79% rise in non-fossil fuel based capacity (renewable energy sources) addition at 190.57 gigawatt (GW) in 2023-24…
A drone view shows a a centuries-old sunken town that reemerged amid extreme heat in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, May 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in northern Philippines, giving residents a rare spectacle and an extra source of income in a…
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A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus, with a facial wound below the right eye, is seen in the Suaq Balimbing research site, a protected rainforest area in Indonesia, two days before the orangutan administered wound self-treatment using a medicinal plant, in this handout picture taken June 23, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters An orangutan appeared…
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In the 17th century, a Dutch draper named Anton van Leeuwenhoek used a small handmade microscope to peer into a world previously unseen by the human eye. Thus he discovered microorganisms and gave rise to the field of microbiology. It offered solutions to challenges in healthcare that until then had seemed intractable. Today, we face…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science: On Bees 1 / 5 | Can all species of bees die after stinging? Yes No Not all the time Only the female bees die Only eight out of almost 21,000 bee species in the world die when they sting. Next 2 / 5 | What is a stinger? A…
Watch | Earth Day: wake-up call on climate change In this episode, we will be discussing Earth Day, which The Hindu covered with thematic articles on April 22. We look at multiple dimensions of climate change, beginning with the most recent Supreme Court ruling on climate change in terms of the rights of us citizens…
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