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We know that all matter is composed of atoms, and atoms are made of protons and neutrons inside the nucleus and electrons outside. But unlike electrons, protons and neutrons are composite particles because they are further made up of quarks. Quarks can’t exist in isolation. They can only be found in groups of two or…
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Activist Dianne Peterson places a sign on an art installation outside a United Nations conference on plastics, April 23, 2024, in Ottawa, Ontario. File photo | Photo Credit: AP Activist and environmentalist groups have termed the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations that concluded in Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday as “disappointing”. Nearly 192 member countries deliberated for…
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A woman covers her head for protection against the scorching sun on a hot summer day, in Kolkata, on May 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The searing April temperatures were the highest over eastern and northeastern (E&NE) India and the second highest over south India since 1901, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in…
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While moving in its orbit roughly once a month, the moon will occasionally occult, or hide, bright stars that are behind, and sometimes, even planets. | Photo Credit: AP The Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has filmed the passing of the moon in front of Antares, a bright red star. The moon passed in…
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This picture, taken by Chandrayaan-1’s Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on November 15, 2008, shows many large and small craters on the polar region of the Moon. | Photo Credit: File photo A study carried out by Indian space scientists has found evidence of enhanced possibility of water ice occurrence in the polar craters of the…
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A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this decade to 2040. The mission would be the first to try to return rock samples…
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For the last three years, Naveen Chandra has been spending most of his days running simulations at the Research Institute for Global Change in Japan. He is trying to recreate the last 50 years of the earth’s atmosphere on a supercomputer roughly the size of an auditorium. Dr. Chandra has been trying to answer a…
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This photograph taken on April 14, 2024 shows Alok Shukla, an activist, taking photos of the Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB) coal mine site in Surguja district, in India’s state of Chhattisgarh. Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of India’s conglomerates — including one operated by Adani Group, helmed by Asia’s second-richest…
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The more gender equal a society is, the more similar men and women will be, adopting more similar interests, personality traits and behavioural patterns. Or so many people seem to believe. Statements like this might sound like truisms, but science shows reality may be more complicated. Several studies have found that some psychological sex differences, such as those…
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Image for Representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: imagine…
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