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Questions: 1. If an octant is one-eighth, a quintant is one-fifth, and a trient is one-third, how much is a dodrant? 2. In the Indian numbering system and in the Urdu language, 1 followed by five zeroes is a lakh, seven zeroes is a crore, and nine zeroes is an arab. What is the name…
A capsule packed with electronics and genetically engineered living cells displayed by researchers at MIT. A smaller version of the capsule could eventually be used in humans to find signs of ulcers and inflammatory bowel disease. Image for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP The rising incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) across the…
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On the heels of recent news reports on how keratin-based hair-straightening products containing glycolic acid derivatives led to severe kidney injury in women, researchers from Kerala have reported a series of cases wherein, the use of fairness creams has been linked to nephrotic syndrome. (For top health news of the day, subscribe to our newsletter Health Matters) In…
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April 25, 2024 08:28 pm | Updated 08:53 pm IST – JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-18 spaceship blast off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, on April 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP China launched a three-member crew to…
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Venus 1 / 5 | Which planet has the longest rotation in the Solar System? It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun. That’s 243 Earth days to rotate once – the longest rotation of any planet in…
This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito. | Photo Credit: AP Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, five million more than in 2021. Africa suffers more than any other region from malaria,…
Blue whales are fascinating animals. At 24-30 metres in length (longer than a basketball court) they are the largest creatures on Earth. They are also among the rarest. Estimates suggest that there are only around 5,000 to 15,000 blue whales left in the world. Their populations experienced a 89-97% decline due to commercial whaling activities worldwide that started in…
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Flowering plants – from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse flower and voodoo lily – are cornerstones of Earth’s ecosystems and essential for humankind. | Photo Credit: Reuters Flowering plants – from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes…
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An artist’s impression of a type of neutron star called a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the universe. | Photo Credit: Reuters Magnetars are among the universe’s most extreme objects – a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic…
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For some people, snakes are exotic yet dangerous creatures of the wild; eerie but elusive, and not something to worry about in day-to-day life. For others, especially some farmers in India and Africa, they are a constant and terrifying threat to life. Venom from snake bites leads to more than 100,000 deaths every year, with…
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