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The new paper said that in some cases, this will involve interplanting Tokyo cherries with alternative cherry species, such as hybrids. | Photo Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS Every spring, Japan is bathed in the pastel pink of cherry blossoms, attracting tourists and local people who celebrate the bloom and gather to take selfies under the trees. But…
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The Breakthrough Prize trophy. | Photo Credit: Breakthrough Prize The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced its 2026 laureates on April 18, awarding six prizes of $3 million each across life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics. The size of the total purse this year is $18.75 million. Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared one of the…
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What environmental conditions caused kangaroos to evolve hopping? Source link
Chronic pain patients who had recently developed depression paradoxically had enlarged hippocampi. | Photo Credit: Özge Karzan Imagine living with constant pain every day. You have to plan your day around your pain: which shoes you can wear, how long you can sit, whether you can commute. While the physical aspect of pain is palpable,…
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Civil service aspirants wait outside an examination centre as they arrive to appear for the UPSC preliminary exam, in Jammu, in March 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI For lakhs of young Indians, the national civil services examination is not just a test: it becomes part of who they are. More than 10 lakh aspirants take…
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A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is prepared for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., on April 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Blue Origin on Sunday (April 19, 2026) said its New Glenn rocket booster touched down after its launch, marking its first landing of a reused…
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How is global warming affecting sea breeze? Source link
Representative image of the Cas9 protein in complex with sgRNA and its target DNA. Cas9 is part of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool. Reseach has shown that CRISPR-based gene drives can spread through small laboratory cages of mosquitoes. | Photo Credit: Public domain For decades, malaria control has worked by reducing the number of mosquitoes and…
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Parliament in session. Representative image. | Photo Credit: File photo On April 16, the Indian government introduced three Bills in the Lok Sabha: the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, the Delimitation Bill, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill. The proposed laws would expand the size of the Lok Sabha from 543 seats to 850 seats,…
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The majority of higher education Science curricula still rely on dense, text-heavy formats developed for an earlier generation that had limited access to other means of information. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockPhotos Every year, as educators, we have ample reason to celebrate various breakthroughs in research, new technologies, and expanding frontiers of knowledge. However, we…
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