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As of December 2, Cyclone Fengal was still alive and kicking, and was predicted to soak parts of north Kerala and south Karnataka (including Bengaluru) in the following days. It appeared to have retained its identity in the forecasts as it crossed peninsular India en route to the Arabian Sea. It may not reorganise into…
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A computer-generated 3D model of Venus’s surface provided by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the volcano Sif Mons exhibiting signs of ongoing activity, in this undated handout image. | Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Reuters Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth’s twin…
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The story so far: The Union Cabinet approved the Indian government’s ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ (ONOS) scheme on November 25. The ONOS promises to provide equitable access to scholarly journals in all public institutions. What does the ONOS entail? First mooted around 2018-2019, the scheme’s ambitious rollout comes with a substantial financial outlay of ₹6,000…
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The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is a government laboratory in Hyderabad. It provides DNA-based investigative services to the police, the judiciary, and to hospitals that offer organ transplant procedures. Recently, the CDFD handled the case of a family in which the father offered to donate an organ to his ailing son. CDFD…
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Daily quiz: in honour of the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor, on its birth anniversary 1 / 5 | Though X described the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor as a “crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers”, Chicago Pile-1 was actually quite safe — a reputation it had acquired from X himself, a uniquely…
A photo taken on July 5, 2024, by the New Zealand Department of Conservation shows rangers walking beside what appears to be the carcass of a rare spade-toothed whale after it was discovered washed ashore on a beach near Taieri Mouth, New Zealand. | Photo Credit: AFP It is the world’s rarest whale, with only…
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A man with gears inside head illustration From cherished family moments to critical academic concepts, memory shapes who we are and what we can become. At its core, memory is what enables us to truly live. As we grow, we’re like blank canvases, absorbing knowledge that shapes our future. Learning is a lifelong journey, but…
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The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said. A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination in late October determined that urgent action was necessary and…
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An SR-71 Blackbird takes off from the Dryden Flight Research Centre, California, on March 9, 1993. Shock diamonds are visible in its exhaust. | Photo Credit: NASA Sometimes when a rocket or a jet takes off, its exhaust has an alternating pattern of light and dark patches (see image). The bright patches in this formation…
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Paradoxes An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in Moscow, Idaho. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | What is Olbers’ paradox? It’s about the sky It’s about solar eclipses It’s about lunar eclipses It’s…
