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How are hydrocarbons extracted from under the ground? | Explained

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How are hydrocarbons extracted from under the ground? | Explained

Over millennia, mighty geological processes in the earth’s crust heated and compressed together pieces of life-forms that had been dead for a while. Eventually, this mulch of organic matter accumulated as hydrocarbons inside rock formations. The two Industrial Revolutions were the result mainly of people finding a way to extract these hydrocarbons and using them…

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How fast is the universe expanding? New data keeps mystery open

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How fast is the universe expanding? New data keeps mystery open

A big open problem in cosmology is the Hubble tension. There are two equally valid ways to measure how fast the universe is expanding, but they have yielded two very different estimates. No amount of rechecking and refining calculations has made this tension go away. In a study published recently in Monthly Notices of The…

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Entrepreneur and pilot, Gopichand Thotakura is aiming for a place in Indian space history

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Entrepreneur and pilot, Gopichand Thotakura is aiming for a place in Indian space history

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist. Photo: X/@blueorigin via PTI Earlier this month, Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin announced six crew members who would be part of a forthcoming commercial flight to space. Of interest to India is one participant, Gopichand…

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Geroscience: the science related to aging

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Geroscience: the science related to aging

Benefits: Senior citizens will greatly benefit from exercise and thus inhibit the aging-associated enzyme (gerozyme) | Photo Credit: Getty Images Dr Daniel Belsky, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, New York (my Alma Mater), has coined the term ‘geroscience’, meaning geriatric, or related to age. Here, he has devised a novel blood test which determines the…

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Concurrent heatwaves, sea level rises pose a threat to coastlines

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Concurrent heatwaves, sea level rises pose a threat to coastlines

Concurrent occurrences of heatwaves and extreme short-term sea level rise at the same coastal locations significantly increased between 1998 and 2017 when compared to the preceding twenty years, as per a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The study also suggests that these events may be five times more likely to occur between 2025…

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Blood bank study reveals true incidence of Long COVID

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Blood bank study reveals true incidence of Long COVID

The pandemic has claimed over seven million lives officially, but the actual death toll is believed to be much higher. Among COVID-19 survivors, a significant number develop long-term health problems. The World Health Organization uses the term Long COVID for individuals experiencing such symptoms for over three months without another explanation. Unfortunately, measuring chronic illness…

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Is there any evidence that eyes have evolved several times independently of one another?

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Is there any evidence that eyes have evolved several times independently of one another?

Scientists have discovered a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses. The Vanadis bristle worm, also known as polychaetes which are nocturnal, has eyes as big as millstones, relatively speaking. As a set, the worm’s eyes weigh about twenty times as much as the rest of the…

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First Indian space tourist to fly on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission

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First Indian space tourist to fly on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission

Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos crew mates after they flew on Blue Origin’s inaugural flight to the edge of space in 2021. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s…

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European court ruling puts cautious Swiss in climate bind

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European court ruling puts cautious Swiss in climate bind

Rosmarie Wydler-Walti and Anne Mahrer, of the Swiss elderly women group Senior Women for Climate Protection, attend the hearing of the court for the ruling in the climate case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France April 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Switzerland…

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