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New science research board ‘takes effect’, Science Minister

February 6, 2024 admin

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh in Parliament on February 06, 2024. The Centre on Monday said that provisions of the newly constituted research board, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), had come into effect and announced the appointment of Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), as interim CEO…

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Scientists move forward with plans for giant new atom-smasher to begin operating by 2040

February 6, 2024 admin

A general view of the LHC experiment during a media visit at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, July 23, 2014. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher expressed confidence Monday about moving forward with a multibillion-euro project to build a larger and more powerful particle collider that could help unlock more mysteries…

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Dial it up to Category 6? As warming stokes storms, some want a bigger hurricane category

February 6, 2024 admin

This GOES-West GeoColor composite satellite image provided by The National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a storm moving over California and the Western U.S. on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of…

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How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile’s

February 6, 2024 admin

Residents evacuate on a motorcycle amid wildfires into Vina del Mar, Chile, Feb. 3, 2024. Scientists say climate change creates conditions that make the drought and wildfires now hitting South America more likely. | Photo Credit: AP At least 123 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile, leading its president to declare two…

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Telenor opens world’s southernmost mobile phone station in Antarctica

February 6, 2024 admin

Norway’s Telenor said it had opened the world’s southernmost mobile phone base station in Antarctica, bringing regular cellphone services to a corner of the frozen continent for the first time. | Photo Credit: Reuters Norway’s Telenor said on Monday it had opened the world’s southernmost mobile phone base station in Antarctica, bringing regular cellphone services…

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Russian cosmonaut sets record for most time in space – more than 878 days

February 6, 2024 admin

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, a crew member of the next mission to the International Space Station, attends a news conference at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. The Russian space agency says one of its cosmonauts has broken the world record for the most time spent in space. Oleg Kononenko, who’s 59 has made five…

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Ergosphere: Making a rotating black hole work

February 6, 2024 admin

Rotating black holes (a.k.a. Kerr black holes) have a unique feature: a region outside their outer event horizon called the ergosphere. A black hole is formed when a really massive star runs out of fuel to fuse, blows up, leaving its core to implode under its weight to form a black hole. The centre of…

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In Frames | Starling murmurations

February 4, 2024 admin

The Danish photographer Søren Solkær released his photographic monograph Starling on December 26, 2023. It is an exploration of starlings, which are passerine (perching) birds belonging to the family Sturnidae. A starling is a fairly unremarkable bird in isolation, but when starlings swarm, thousands of them come together to form a swirling, undulating cloud –…

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Getting a closer look at Pluto

February 3, 2024 admin

The most detailed view up till 2010 of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003 and released on February 4, 2010. | Photo Credit: HO Come February 18, and it will be 94 years since we’ve known of the…

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Reducing ammonia emissions through targeted fertilizer management

February 3, 2024 admin

Based on machine learning, researchers have come up with detailed estimates of ammonia emissions from rice, wheat and maize crops. The dataset enabled a cropland-specific assessment of the potential for emission reductions, which indicates that effective management of fertilizer in the growing of these crops could lower atmospheric ammonia emissions from farming by up to…

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