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Scientists discover new fungus species in Thrissur

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Trichoglossum syamviswanathii. Photo: Special Arrangement Scientists have discovered a new fungus species, Trichoglossum syamviswanathii, from Kerala. Researchers from the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Botanical Survey of India, and the University of Hyderabad are behind the discovery of the new fungus species. The species Trichoglossum syamviswanathii is named after renowned scientist and former director of…

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Why now is the time to address humanity’s impact on the moon

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The Lunar Resources Registry, a private business that locates valuable resources on the moon and helps investors conduct the required exploration and extraction operations, notes: “The space race is evolving into space industrialization.” Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters Humans have always looked at the sky, using the stars as navigation guides or for spiritual…

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The Science Quiz | The Skylab ‘incident’

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released this reproduction of the emblem for the first Skylab mission. The Skylab is a 100-ton experimental space station including a laboratory for medical, scientific and technological experiments. The emblem, by artist Kelly Freas, shows the Skylab silhouetted against the earth’s globe, which in turn is eclipsing the…

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Earth-wide telescope confirms black hole shadow is ‘real’

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Scientists have unveiled new details of a colossal black hole 53 million lightyears away first photographed by the earth-wide Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2017. The feat provided the first visual evidence that black holes exist, confirming a fundamental prediction of general relativity. In a new paper published on January 18, EHT scientists have reported…

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With CRISPR poised to revolutionise therapy, a pause to consider ethical issues

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“We will each write a ghost story”, said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to. And so on a cold and rainy supposedly summer night in 1816, four friends inspired by German ghost stories, gathered to write one. Among them, a young Mary Shelley, consumed by the idea of creating a story that would “curdle…

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NASA climate satellite blasts off to survey oceans and atmosphere of a warming Earth

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo Credit: AP NASA’s newest climate satellite rocketed into orbit Thursday to survey the world’s oceans and atmosphere in never-before-seen detail. SpaceX…

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World breached 1.5° Celsius limit for entire year for first time: European climate agency

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Scientists attribute the exceptional warming to the combined effects of El Niño. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The world last month experienced the warmest January on record, with the global mean temperature for the past 12 months exceeding the 1.5° Celsius threshold, according to the European climate agency. However, this does not imply a…

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RRI researchers develop new algorithm which can produce better images to study ultracold atoms

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View of Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Sudhakara Jain A research group at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have designed a new image-correction technique capable of getting better images during the study of cold atoms or atoms at absolute zero temperature.   The technique can get rid of 50% unwanted interference fringes…

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