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Sun bears appear so human-like they are mistaken for people in suits – experts explain

August 21, 2023 admin

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a sun bear interacts with tourists at the Hangzhou Zoo in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. The zoo in eastern China is denying suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing like humans…

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Superconductivity: Stay in the flow

August 21, 2023 admin

Superconducting material hovering over a set of neodymium magnets. A property in the realm of materials science that has been the source of endless fascination for scientists is superconductivity. Materials possess an innate resistance to the flow of an electric current, which leads to a loss of electrical energy and heat. Most materials retain this…

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Explained | What the fate of Luna 25 means for Russia

August 21, 2023 admin

The story so far: On August 11, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, launched its Luna 25 spacecraft onboard a Soyuz 2 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Luna 25 consisted of a lander and its mission was to soft-land near the moon’s south pole, and there study the optical, physical, and chemical properties of moondust and…

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Watch | Data Point: How tough is it to land Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander on the moon?

August 21, 2023 admin

Watch | Data Point: How tough is it to land Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander on the moon? Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land on the moon on August 23. But space is hard. Data shows that moon missions are especially hard. After Chandrayaan-2’s failure, The Hindu looked at how successful past moon missions have been, to assess…

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Chandrayaan-3 | ISRO releases images of the far side area of the moon

August 21, 2023 admin

Lunar far side area as imaged from the Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera (LHDAC) onboard Chandrayaan-3 on August 19, 2023 Ahead of the scheduled landing of the Chandrayaan-3 Lander on the moon surface on August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday released images of the far side of the lunar surface….

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Data | India tops AI projects in GitHub

August 21, 2023 admin

Artificial intelligence looking at smart city, connected with planet through global mobile internet on phone. AI control city infrastructure, data traffic, ensure safety. World communication concept. | Photo Credit: iStock In 2022, software developers in India contributed to over 24% of AI related projects in GitHub, the most in the world, according to Stanford’s latest…

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Morning Digest | Pulses prices may spiral as deficient rain mars sowing; Kuki tribal body to re-impose blockade on NH-2, and more

August 21, 2023 admin

While pulses inflation hardened in July, other protein sources such as milk (8.6%) and meat and fish also reported higher inflation last month. Image for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Pulses prices may spiral as deficient rain mars sowing Tomato prices may be cooling from recent highs, but pulses could play…

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Chandrayaan-3 | How NASA, ESA will support ISRO during the Moon landing on August 23

August 20, 2023 admin

An illustration showing the soft-landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the surface of the Moon. The spacecraft is set to land on August 23, 2023 around 6.04 p.m. IST. Photo: Twitter/@isro via PTI Since the launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14, the ground stations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European…

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ISRO one step away from landing on Moon as Lander Module completes second deboost operation

August 20, 2023 admin

An illustration showing ISRO’s ‘Chandrayaan-3’ after the orbit of Landing Module (LM) was successfully reduced to 25 km x 134 km. | Photo Credit: PTI The Lander Module of India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 is set to touch down on the Moon on August 23 around 6.04 p.m. IST, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)…

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Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the Moon

August 20, 2023 admin

A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 during its flight to the moon shows the mission emblem and the bucket of the lunar manipulator complex on August 15, 2023. Photo: Roscosmos via Reuters Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, the country’s Roscosmos…

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