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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Snow Leopards 1 / 5 | What is the scientific name of the snow leopard? Panthera leo Panthera onca Panthera uncia Panthera tigris Snow Leopard also called Panthera uncia is a big cat in the genus Panthera native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. Next 2 /…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, Head of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Yuri Borisov visit the centre of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energia” in Korolyov outside Moscow, Russia, October 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the first…
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This artist’s reconstruction depicts North Dakota in the first months following the impact of an asteroid off Mexico’s coast 66 million years ago, showing a dark, dusty and cold world in which the last non-avian dinosaurs, illustrated by the species Dakotaraptor steini, were on the edge of extinction in this undated handout. | Photo Credit:…
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The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this undated NASA handout photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program in 1972. | Photo Credit: Reuters During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 – the last time people walked on the moon…
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The planet Mars is shown in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope view taken May 12, 2016. | Photo Credit: Reuters Seismic waves generated by a meteorite impact on the other side of Mars from where NASA’s InSight lander sits have provided new clues about the Red Planet’s deep interior, prompting scientists to reappraise the anatomy…
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This artist’s impression, not to scale, illustrates the path of a fast radio burst from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms, in this handout picture obtained on October 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Every day and night, hundreds of thousands…
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Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of these organisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are collectively known as the gut microbiome. Increasingly the gut microbiome is recognised as playing a large part in health and disease, particularly relating…
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A model of the lunar rover in HAKUTO-R lunar exploration program by “ispace” is pictured at a venue to monitor its landing on the Moon, in Tokyo, Japan, April 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan will provide a subsidy of up to 12 billion yen ($80 million) to moon exploration startup ispace (9348.T) as part of…
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The planet Mars is shown in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope view taken May 12, 2016. | Photo Credit: Reuters On May 4, 2022, NASA’s InSight lander detected the largest quake yet recorded on Mars, one with a 4.7 magnitude – fairly modest by Earth standards but strong for our planetary neighbour. Given Mars lacks…
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One way physicists seek clues to unravel the mysteries of the universe is by smashing matter together and inspecting the debris. But these types of destructive experiments, while incredibly informative, have limits. We are two scientists who study nuclear and particle physics using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. Working with an international group of nuclear and particle…
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