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A selfie taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in 2025 shows the Cheyava Falls rock to the rover’s left. The rock has features that may bear on the question of whether the red planet was long ago home to microscopic life. | Photo Credit: NASA In a new study in Science Advances, an international team…
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Two years ago, Mundakkai and Churalmala in Kerala experienced powerful landslides that killed hundreds of people. Last year, a large village in Dharali, Uttarakhand, was washed away following heavy rains. In the monsoon season of 2025, the States in Northeast India were devastated by frequent floods. More than a hundred people lost their lives after…
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The most significant factor which decides your height is genes — the basic and functional unit of heredity itself. They play an important role in determining physical traits, i.e., whether you have curly or straight hair, long or short legs, or even what your smile might look like. Scientists have identified over 700 different genetic…
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The margay is a small wild cat native to South America. A few years back, biologists noticed a strange behaviour being displayed by this tree-dwelling animal. They found out the feline was imitating the call of a baby monkey. They conducted some studies and found out that the margay’s imitation game was a clever ploy…
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IIT-Delhi researchers have found that the Klemens model has ‘important limitations when applied to metals’. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When a team at IIT-Delhi recently compared the members of a family of minerals called rutile oxides, they found a significant difference between metals and insulators that a well-known mathematical model could not explain. Understanding…
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‘Journalism done properly can exact a particular psychological toll. Just the developments pouring in from different parts of the world add to the ordinary unhappiness of the human condition’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto In an episode of the TV show Elementary, a surgeon prepares to perform a surgery. After he dons his gloves and mask,…
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At the Bonn climate talks in Germany on June 8-18, alongside the usual laundry list of contested themes like climate finance, tipping points became an unexpected source of debate and controversy. According to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, India urged care and clarity in using terms like “tipping points”, which it said would present challenges around…
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Paper is made primarily from wood pulp. | Photo Credit: Céline/Pexels As the southwest monsoon sweeps over India, people brace for storms, floods, and the occasional sight of a damaged bookstore or library. What makes the last a particularly sad sight is that paper tears easily when it’s wet. Paper is made primarily from wood…