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Archaeologists unearth 3,000-year-old priestly tomb in northern Peru

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Archaeologists unearth 3,000-year-old priestly tomb in northern Peru

Archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Venture stock items of pottery of a three,000-year-old tomb which they consider may have honoured an elite spiritual chief within the Andean nation some 3 millennia in the past, in Pacopampa, Peru August 26, 2023. | Photograph Credit score: Reuters Archaeologists in northern Peru have unearthed a three,000-year-old tomb which…

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Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

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Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

“You are more microbes than human.” It is possible you have had this factoid thrown at you, with the thrower claiming that the microbes in our bodies outnumber our own cells 10 to one. But according to an assessment published in Nature Microbiology, this is a myth. In a 2016 study the assessment’s authors cited,…

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The importance of states in space missions

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The importance of states in space missions

Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover roams around the ‘Shiv Shakti Point’, which is the Vikram’ lander’s touchdown spot, on the moon. | Photo Credit: PTI On August 23, with Chandrayaan-3’s lander module making a soft landing on the moon, India became only the fourth country after the erstwhile Soviet Union, the U.S., and China to accomplish this…

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After Chandrayaan-3, Space Physics Lab at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre prepares to study solar wind

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After Chandrayaan-3, Space Physics Lab at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre prepares to study solar wind

ISRO will use an XL variant of the PSLV to place the Aditya-L1 spacecraft in a low earth orbit. Photo: isro.gov.in Scientists at the Space Physics Laboratory (SPL) under the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here are getting ready to unravel the secrets of the solar wind as the Aditya-L1 mission, meant to study the…

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Science This Week | India becomes the first country to land on Moon’s south pole and more

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Science This Week | India becomes the first country to land on Moon’s south pole and more

This image from video provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation shows the surface of the moon as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft prepares for landing on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, which scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water. | Photo…

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 Science This Week | India becomes the first country to land on Moon in the south polar region and more

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 Science This Week | India becomes the first country to land on Moon in the south polar region and more

This image from video provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation shows the surface of the moon as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft prepares for landing on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, which scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water. | Photo…

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ISRO releases graph of temperature variation on lunar surface measured by Chandrayaan-3’s payload

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ISRO releases graph of temperature variation on lunar surface measured by Chandrayaan-3’s payload

The graph of temperature variation on lunar surface. Twitter/@isro ISRO on August 27 released a graph of the temperature variation on lunar surface with increase in depth measured by the ChaSTE payload onboard Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander module. According to the space agency, Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) measured the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil…

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Scientists abandon Twitter as the platform’s landscape changes

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Scientists abandon Twitter as the platform’s landscape changes

An illustrative photograph showing the new Twitter logo rebranded as X (L) and the previous bird logo reflected in smartphone screens, July 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP A survey conducted recently by the journal Nature found that researchers are leaving the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), a place they used frequently…

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Somatic genetic variants: A genomic revolution hiding inside our cells

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Somatic genetic variants: A genomic revolution hiding inside our cells

An abstract illustration. We can now sequence thousands of cells from a tissue at the same time, opening big windows into the functional diversity of cells in the human body. | Photo Credit: Shubham Dhage/Unsplash The human genome has 23 pairs of chromosomes, one inherited from each of our parents. The genome is the blueprint…

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