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Military technology’s environmental impact: A bird’s nest made of fibre-optic cable

July 9, 2026 admin

A researcher shows a bird’s nest containing fragments of fibre-optic cable collected near the front line during Russia’s war against Ukraine, in Kyiv. | Photo Credit: Reuters cienceA bird’s nest found near Ukraine’s front line has caught the attention of researchers, not because of the bird that built it but because of what it was…

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Indian lab designs quantum algorithm to beat classical computers

July 8, 2026 admin

Ask Indrakshi Raychowdhury what a quantum computer is bad at, and she points to arithmetic. “If you try to add two numbers, a classical calculator does it easily, whereas doing it on a quantum computer is incredibly difficult,” she said in a conversation with The Hindu. “But simulating a highly complex, interacting quantum system (where…

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The quantum computing age will only begin when we silence the noise

July 8, 2026 admin

In a paper published in the Journal of Statistical Physics in 1980, the American physicist Paul Benioff described what is now called the quantum Turing machine: a model of a computer that operated according to the laws of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour of matter and light…

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One body, multiple pathways: where India is going wrong in regulating pesticide exposure

July 8, 2026 admin

Pesticide residues do not arrive as a single dose. They arrive in a vegetable, a glass of water, and the air of a home, often on the same day, and none of India’s three major monitoring systems is built to add them up. In 2008, in the Orissa village of Sindhikela, village residents used pesticides…

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How the amino acid leucine helps our cells produce energy

July 8, 2026 admin

Mitochondria are responsible for maintaining the cell’s supply of energy. | Photo Credit: Image created with AI Proteins in the cells in our body perform functions of value to the sustenance and growth of organs. There are more than 20 amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, and the sequence of these amino…

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Celluloid story: An action-packed invention

July 7, 2026 admin

There’s no doubting that the human species is now the most dominant one on planet Earth. That said, it does not go without saying that we shoulder that dominance responsibly. In fact, there’s growing evidence to the contrary. The debate as to whether it was humans or climate change that led to the extinction of…

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When might life on the earth end?

July 7, 2026 admin

Plants need at least around 10 ppm of carbon dioxide in the air to survive. | Photo Credit: Mick Haupt/Unsplash Researchers from the U.S. have estimated how long photosynthetic life will last on the earth. As the sun ages, it also becomes brighter, eventually emitting a colour too hot for plants to survive. Previous studies…

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Finerenone helps slow kidney disease in patients without diabetes

July 7, 2026 admin

In chronic kidney disease, the kidneys gradually lose their ability to filter waste from the blood. While diabetes is one of its leading causes, many patients develop the condition because of high blood pressure, autoimmune disorders or other conditions that damage the kidney’s filtering units. Doctors can slow the disease using medicines that lower blood…

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Mission Drishti, a privately developed Earth observation satellite, loses communication after solar storm

July 7, 2026 admin

GalaxEye’s Mission Drishti, also described as the world’s first OptoSAR satellite combining optical cameras and all-weather radar, before its launch. | Photo Credit: File photo Mission Drishti, the world’s first OptoSAR satellite developed by Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye, which was launched in May, encountered an anomaly following a geomagnetic solar storm during the final stage…

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How fossil fuels built the modern world | The Scope

July 7, 2026 admin

How did prehistoric trees and microbes become jet fuel and smartphones? The Scope traces the history of energy extraction and how ‘ancient’ hydrocarbons are found in almost everything we touch. Source link

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