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Image for representational purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Science Quiz appears thrice a week in the daily Science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper. Questions: 1. Malaria is caused by parasites transmitted through the bite of this female mosquito, discovered in 1897…
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Image for representational purpose only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Science Quiz appears thrice a week in the daily Science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper. Questions: 1. In India, 70% of cancer related deaths occur in the first year, with lung cancer being…
Questions: 1. The most common type of star in the universe is the main sequence star. The name comes from the fact that in a graph of a star’s brightness versus its colour, main sequence stars lie along a prominent diagonal band. What is this graph called? 2. The abundance of elements produced in a…
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Colours to dye threads which are used to make colourful threads for embroidering the Namda carpets. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmed/The Hindu Q: X is a dye named for a country, associated with the name of a revolt in that country in 1859, and whose colour is popularly associated today with denim jeans. Name X….
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