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In this photo provided by Chip Michalove, LeeBeth, a white shark, is tagged on Dec. 8, 2023, off Hilton Head Island, S.C. Scientists say the animal has been tracked further into the Gulf of Mexico than any white shark they’ve ever tagged before. | Photo Credit: AP As sharks go, LeeBeth is something like a…
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In a new study involving a group of polyglots, the brain activity of the participants was monitored using a method called functional magnetic resonance imaging as they listened to passages read in various languages. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are proficient…
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Intelligence is the capacity of living beings to apply what they know to solve problems. ‘Artificial intelligence’ (AI) is intelligence in a machine. There is currently no one definition of AI. A simple place to begin is with AI’s materiality, as a machine-software combination. What does the machine do? A simple example-problem in AI is…
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The image of Earth captured by INSAT-3DS on March 7, 2024. ISRO’s meteorological satellite, INSAT-3DS, has initiated Earth imaging operations with the meteorological payloads (6-channel Imager and 19-channel Sounder) capturing the first set of images on March 7. The INSAT-3DS satellite was launched on February 17. After completing orbit-raising operations, it reached the designated geostationary…
A file photo of Agni 5 missile. | Photo Credit: The Hindu In a major technological breakthrough and building in redundancy into the country’s nuclear weapons programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 11 announced the successful test firing of Agni-V ballistic missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology by the Defence Research…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a roller-coaster for vaccinology — from a rare show of truly global collaboration between governments, multilateral agencies, the scientific community, and industry to huge public demand for rapid vaccine development against the new virus that had brought the world to its knees to sudden concerns of “too rapid” development when…
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The fruit-fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has been among the favourite organisms of genetics researchers for more than a hundred years. Many years of intense research with these diminutive creatures have led to many breakthroughs in our understanding of biology and evolution. Recently, researchers from Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology reported yet another such…
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Now, the first study of how climate change affects rhinos in southern Africa has found that they will cease to exist in the region’s national parks by 2085 if the world takes the worst-case scenario climate change pathway. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Southern Africa is home to 22,137 of the world’s 23,432 white and black African rhinos….
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The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) has been among the favourite organisms of genetics researchers for more than a hundred years. Many years of intense research with these diminutive creatures have led to many breakthroughs in our understanding of biology and evolution. Recently, researchers from Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology reported yet another…
Read More “Scientists genetically modify ‘sexual’ fruit fly to reproduce asexually” »
Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju said India’s deep-ocean submersible Matsya6000 was “well on course” and could be tested by the “end of this year”. File | Photo Credit: PTI India should be able to send its scientists to study the deep ocean 6 km under the sea surface in its own Samudrayaan by the end…
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