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A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist’s concept of a black widow pulsar. The pulsar heats the facing side of its stellar partner to temperatures twice as hot as the sun’s surface and slowly evaporates it. | Photo Credit: Reuters How fast can a…
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The study found that lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the last 40 years. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Pexels.com You’re not just getting older. Song lyrics really are becoming simpler and more repetitive, according to a study published on Thursday. Lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the…
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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the centre of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a…
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Cosmologist and astrophysicist Royal Martin Rees at the Commonwealth Science Conference in Bengaluru on November 26, 2014. Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash/The Hindu | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash/The Hindu Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as effectively was a waste of public money, and…
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About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded and sent elements representing the building blocks of life racing through space. Image for Represented. | Photo Credit: Reuters About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded and sent elements representing…
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Anger is a common emotion with potentially destructive consequences. From physical confrontations to road rage incidents, anger is widely seen as a problem and an emotion that people should try to rein in. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Some commonly recommended tactics for managing anger, including hitting a punching bag, jogging and cycling, aren’t effective at…
Spiral galaxy NGC 1512, located 30 million light-years away from Earth, is seen in an undated image from the James Webb Space Telescope. | Photo Credit: Reuters Stars are born from huge clouds of mostly hydrogen gas floating in space. Astronomers like me study this gas because it helps us understand how stars and galaxies…
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Needle, spindle, bullet and spearhead shape-magnetofossils. | Photo Credit: Kadam, N et al/Nature In the depths of the Bay of Bengal, scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old sediment — a giant magnetofossil and one of the youngest to be found yet. What are magentofossils? Magnetofossils are the fossilised remains of magnetic particles created by magnetotactic bacteria, also…
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Needle, spindle, bullet and spearhead shape-magnetofossils. | Photo Credit: Kadam, N et al/Nature In the depths of the Bay of Bengal, scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old sediment — a giant magnetofossil and one of the youngest to be found yet. What are magentofossils? Magnetofossils are the fossilised remains of magnetic particles created by magnetotactic bacteria, also…
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Three killer whales surface through a breathing hole in the ice of Hudson Bay near the community of Inukjuak, Quebec January 9, 2013. | Photo Credit: Reuters Menopause is a rare trait among Earth’s species, known to exist in only a few. Humans are one. Killer whales and four other toothed whales are the others….
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