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What is geospatial intelligence? A geographer explains the powerful melding of maps and data

September 25, 2023 admin

Geospatial intelligence has offered valuable insights to help governments and organizations protect communities. | Photo Credit: AP With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has presented a range of threats to the safety of the majority of Americans. The good news, through all…

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Cloning

September 21, 2023 admin

Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer has died, the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh said Monday. He was 79. | Photo Credit: AP Q: Which organism was the first mammal to be successfully cloned? Dolly was a female Finn-Dorset sheep and the first mammal that was cloned from an adult somatic cell. Sheep Cat…

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Pollen in pee: fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments

September 19, 2023 admin

Pollen grains are incredibly durable because they are made of an organic substance (called sporopollenin) that is very resistant to decay. Pollen is released into the air, often in large quantities, and can settle on surfaces like lakes, and become preserved in sediment deposits over thousands, or even millions, of years. | Photo Credit: M….

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How microbiomes and the smells they produce help shape behaviour in bugs, birds, beasts and humans

September 11, 2023 admin

Microbes are an integral part of most, if not all multi-cellular organisms. In fact, these organisms are the way they are because of the tiny partners they house within and on them. These microbes constitute the microbiome: an “invisible organ” weighing approximately 2.5 to three kilograms in an adult human and much more in larger animals. This…

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Black hole is observed snacking on sun-like star, bite by bite

September 9, 2023 admin

The interaction between a supermassive black hole in a galaxy named 2MASX J02301709+2836050 and a star orbiting it is seen in this image captured by the Pan-STARRS telescope, in Hawaii, U.S., in an undated handout image provided by NASA. | Photo Credit: Reuters Black holes, celestial objects known for their gluttony, usually eat stars unlucky…

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Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered

September 8, 2023 admin

This handout photograph released by the CEA on September 7, 2023, shows a 3D representation of the galaxy “Bubble”, coloured in brown. The image shows the position of the Milky Way, with a small white dot located outside the bubble on the right, in a white cloud. The blue wisps represent the “cosmic web”, the…

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Horizon project: Which EU science schemes has Britain joined?

September 8, 2023 admin

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tests the contents of vaping products during a visit to Kent Scientific Services in West Malling, Kent, Britain May 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Britain on Thursday said it would join the European Union’s flagship Horizon science research programme and its Copernicus earth observation programme, but not the Euratom…

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Lab-grown human ‘embryo’ created without eggs or sperm

September 8, 2023 admin

PhD student, Mehmet Yunus Comar, looks at a model of an early-stage human embryo, created by Israeli scientists without using an egg, sperm or womb, offering a glimpse into the first weeks of embryonic development, in a laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel September 7, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists…

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Science Quiz | What computers need to compute: Logic gates

September 5, 2023 admin

Q: A logic gate is a device that performs a logical operation on the inputs it receives. E.g., the value of 1 OR 0 is 1 and the value of 1 AND 0 is 0. Name the branch of algebra that deals with such combinations and their underlying theory. A: Boolean algebra Q: Very large…

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Cartesian coordinates: a way to find your way

September 5, 2023 admin

Point plotting on Cartesian plane. A coordinate system is a set of numbers that allows you to specify the location of a point in some space. The Cartesian coordinates is one such system, which uses a set of three numbers to specify the distance of a point from three perpendicular planes. In general, this system…

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