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Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly awards. First up, as usual, is the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology, which will be announced Monday by a panel…
When the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event’s YouTube live-stream – a record for the site. The landing was a win for India’s low-cost space engineering, and science, as well as a quiet initiative to rebrand India’s 54-year-old space agency…
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Some of the most amazing phenomena in nature, from electromagnetic radiation and infrared vision to subatomic particles and cosmic rays, are invisible, and we get to know them only through their various applications. This is true of Lagrange points as well – points in space between celestial bodies where a spacecraft stays more or less stationary, as if…
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Ranga Dias, March 2023. | Photo Credit: Screengrab from University of Rochester video/YouTube Controversial University of Rochester physicist Ranga P. Dias face a potential third retraction of a paper related to his work on room-temperature superconductors in a year, after the co-authors of a study published in March 2023 have asked for it to be…
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A view shows fossil cells, in Bogota, Colombia, in this image taken in 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Remnants of DNA have been discovered in fossilised remains dating to 6 million years ago of a sea turtle closely related to today’s Kemp’s ridley and olive ridley turtles, marking one of the rare times genetic material…
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Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, U.S. | Photo Credit: www.berkeley.edu.in Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA will be awarded with the 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for his outstanding contributions in mathematics. The annual cash prize of USD 10,000 will be given at an international conference in Number Theory during…
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At Rajiv Sinha’s laboratory in IIT Kanpur lie soil, sand, and rocks drilled out from across thousands of metres under the Karnali, Ganga, and Kosi rivers. Each sample, called a “sedimentary core” is held in a container 7.6 cm wide; together, they create snapshots of the rivers’ ancient history. Every centimetre of these cores reveals…
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had shared a video of the Pragyan rover being rotated on the surface of the moon that was captured by a Lander Image Camera. The rover was put into sleep mode on September 2. | Photo Credit: ANI Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) S. Somanath on Thursday…
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Q: When did chickens first get domesticated? Domestication probably occurred 7,000-10,000 years ago in Southeast Asia and Oceana. Distribution of Chickens occurred rapidly and was widespread because of their ability to provide meat and eggs without being competitive for human food sources. 4,000 years ago 7,000-10,000 years ago 15,000-12,000 years ago 16,000 years ago A:…
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Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona’s University, during a research project “Surfing for Science” to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. (Image for Representation) | Photo Credit: Reuters Researchers in Japan have confirmed microplastics are present in clouds,…
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