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A test tube labelled “Bird Flu” and eggs are seen in this picture illustration, January 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating vulnerable species and war-gaming response plans. Oceania is…
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Representative illustration. | Photo Credit: Growtika/Unsplash The story so far: On October 8, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize for physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. Their work lies at the roots of a large tree of work, the newest branches of which…
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In his quest to understand how each cell of an organism interprets the same genome in a different way, researcher Sascha Duttke wondered whether there might be any undiscovered rules of biology. The human genome contains information about our development, functioning, growth, and reproduction, and all of it takes up only about 2 MB of…
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John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. Photo: www.nobelprize.org The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on…
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SpaceX has launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a “rescue mission” to bring back two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since June. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams travelled to the space station on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was on its first mission with a human crew. But several engines malfunctioned once in space and the vehicle was found…
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Representative image of an ant. | Photo Credit: David Higgins/Unsplash Q: Ants don’t get hurt when they fall. Why? A: The fall of a body is controlled mainly by the gravitational attraction of the earth. The strength of the gravitational force depends on the mass of the falling object. A heavier object is thus ‘attracted’…
Almost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years. | Photo Credit: Matej Lipar/The Conversation Almost one-sixth of Earth’s land surface…
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Upper stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-37 (PSLV C-37 mission) re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on October 6, 2024. The impact point is in the North Atlantic Ocean. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) informed that the upper stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-37 (PSLV C-37 mission)…
In this Sept. 2, 2019 photo, a silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira walks in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. The Spanish government has announced plans to ban harmful experiments on great apes as part of a wider initiative to give them increased rights closer to the ones humans enjoy. | Photo Credit: AP The Spanish government has announced…
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s estimates of the burden of 36 cancers in 185 countries suggest one in five individuals have a lifetime risk of developing cancer. The Agency also estimated that one in nine males and one in 12 females will die of cancer. In all, the agency counted 20 million new…
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