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What is the One Nation One Subscription explained

November 26, 2024 admin

Image used for representation only. | Photo Credit: ANI The story so far: The Union Cabinet on Monday, November 25, 2024, approved the ‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) initiative for centralised access to research articles and journal publication for government higher education institutions and research and development (R&D) laboratories of the central government. The central…

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Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

October 16, 2024 admin

Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and operation. For instance, the nucleus stores genetic material, and mitochondria produce energy. Another essential part of a cell is the membrane that encloses it. Proteins embedded on the surface of…

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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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Sunflowers ‘dance’ to get more sunlight, scientists find

September 18, 2024 admin

Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, Charles Darwin lay ill in bed, with nothing to do but watch his plants so closely that he could…

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Research rewrites where, when humans first domesticated horses

September 11, 2024 admin

Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons, and used their bones for early tools. During…

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How was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist explains

July 3, 2024 admin

You can imagine that popping maize kernels was first discovered by accident. Some maize probably fell into a cooking fire, and whoever was nearby figured out that this was a handy new way of preparing the food. | Photo Credit: pexels.com You have to wonder how people originally figured out how to eat some foods…

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The mysterious fate of the Neanderthal Y chromosome

June 21, 2024 admin

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between modern humans and these long-gone relatives – most recently that a rush of interbreeding between our species occurred in a relatively short burst of…

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How clothed pig carcasses are revealing the secrets of mummification

May 28, 2024 admin

It was the kind of task any competent seamstress has completed hundreds of times before: altering denim jeans and jerseys. But there was something different about this piece of work. Though our team of scientists were paying for it, we weren’t her ultimate customers – the clothes were to be worn by dead pigs. The…

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Study reveals history and oceanic voyages of remarkable baobab tree

May 17, 2024 admin

A motorcycle drives between baobab trees at baobab alley near the city of Morondava, Madagascar, August 30, 2019. | Photo Credit: Reuters The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. When its contorted branches are leafless during the dry season, they resemble jumbled roots emanating from a thick trunk, making it appear as…

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More than a third of urban Chinese living in sinking cities, study finds

May 14, 2024 admin

People walk on an overpass past office towers in the Lujiazui financial district of Shanghai, China October 17, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Across the world, many cities are slowly sinking. Most are on the coast, including tropical megacities like Jakarta in Indonesia or Manila in the Philippines, or places like New Orleans, Vancouver or…

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