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NASA to launch mission on Oct. 10 to look for habitable spots on Europa moon

October 9, 2024 admin

A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990’s, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed…

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People with autism, ADHD likelier to have eating disorders: study

October 9, 2024 admin

More than 1.1 million Australians are estimated to be living with an eating disorder. Around one-third of these people are neurodivergent. So why are neurodivergent people, such as autistic people and those with ADHD, more likely to experience eating disorders than the broader population? And how does this impact their treatment? First, what is neurodivergence? Neurodivergence, or the state of being neurodivergent,…

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Here’s Why It Is A Big Deal

October 9, 2024 admin

Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) is the highest of its kind in the world Asia’s largest imaging Cherenkov telescope, located at an altitude of almost 4,300 metres, was inaugurated on Wednesday at Ladakh’s Hanle. The Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) observatory, the highest of its kind of telescope in the world, has been indigenously built…

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Limestone, iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Australia 100,000 years ago

October 8, 2024 admin

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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The darker side of human rights for great apes

October 8, 2024 admin

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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Madagascar mining rush caused no more deforestation than farming: study

October 3, 2024 admin

The rainforests are really important for biodiversity as they are home to many unique species at risk of extinction, including lemurs such as the indri and black and white ruffed lemur. | Photo Credit: Shutterstock If tens of thousands of miners turned up in the middle of a protected rainforest to mine for sapphires, you might…

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Ancient human DNA from a South African rock shelter sheds light on 10,000 years of history

October 3, 2024 admin

New technology is making it possible to keep learning more from previously discovered archaeological material. Oakhurst offered an opportunity to reconstruct the genomes of the site’s inhabitants through time, and to assess their genetic relationships to people living in the region today. | Photo Credit: Shutterstock Oakhurst rock shelter is an archaeological site near the town…

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Small rocky planet detected in orbit about nearby Barnard’s star

October 3, 2024 admin

An artist’s impression shows the sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest single star to our solar system, in this undated handout. | Photo Credit: Reuters Barnard’s star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 light years…

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Scientists map fruit fly brain in neurobiological milestone

October 3, 2024 admin

This undated handout image released on October 2, 2024 by FlyWire – Princeton University shows the largest neurons of the fruit fly brain connectome. An international team has managed to map all the neurons and connections in the brain of the fruit fly, a major advance for neuroscience, the results of which were published on…

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Elon Musk Shares Stunning Polaris Mission Video

September 28, 2024 admin

Cape Canaveral, Florida: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today shared a stunning high-definition video of the Polaris space mission around Earth. Sharing the video highlights, Mr Musk said, “Looks like CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), but it is real”. According to the mission’s official website, the Polaris space programme is a “first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight…

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