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The coastline of a small island off the coast of Antarctica, seen from a window on a commercial flight, February 8, 2017. After the previous ice age, a lot of ice melted from the northernmost and the southernmost parts of the earth, causing the planet to spin faster. | Photo Credit: Matt Palmer/Unsplash In yet…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the officers of the Income Tax department from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh region, in Bhopal. | Photo Credit: ANI Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday that she wished she could bring down the taxes in the country to “almost nil” but India’s challenges are severe and they…
A heatmap showing where vegetation occurs across the vast expense of the Antarctic continent. | Photo Credit: Andrew Gray/The Conversation A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It…
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As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-coloured spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view. These were unmistakably the remains of an arctic tundra ecosystem…
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Vehicular traffic is a mainstay of modern life. Either people want to get from one place to the next or they want to send things. As the demand for such transport has increased, so have the number of transport options people have invented and the number of places to deploy them in. Today, thus, we…
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This image provided by NASA shows the InSight Mars lander in a selfie photo composite on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. | Photo Credit: AP An immense reservoir of liquid water may reside deep under the surface of Mars within fractured igneous rocks, holding enough to fill an…
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Updated – August 13, 2024 05:25 pm IST Published – August 12, 2024 05:00 pm IST Daily Quiz: On Vikram Sarabhai’s life beyond ISRO A view of the Halcyon Castle, the place where Vikram Sarabhai died. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Name the national research institute Sarabhai founded in November 1947. In its…
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Products like the EpiPen auto-injector, approved in 1987, were authorized based on chemistry and manufacturing data and were not required to prove safety and efficacy. File photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: AP U.S. health officials on Friday, August 9, 2024, approved a nasal spray to treat severe allergic reactions, the first…
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An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. Another showing human legs with way too many bones. An introduction that starts: “Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic”. These are a few of the most egregious examples of artificial intelligence that have recently made their way into scientific journals, shining a…
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Plastic bags floating in a water body. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists in Germany have identified plastic-eating fungi that could offer a glimmer of hope in tackling the problem of millions of tonnes of waste polluting the world’s oceans every year. But they warn that their work is likely to be only a small…
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