Science
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When women, literally, aren’t recognized
By Ekaterina Pesheva The Harvard Gazette Our ability to recognize faces is a complex interplay of environment, neurobiology, and contextual…
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Indian-origin researcher turns banana plant into packaging material
Sydney–An Indian-origin researcher-led team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on Friday announced it has discovered a novel…
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Are we alone? Study refines search for habitable planets
New York– A team of US researchers has redefined the conditions that make a planet habitable by taking the star’s radiation…
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Elon Musk scouting for potential Mars landing sites
Washington– Elon Musk is serious about colonizing Mars and his aerospace company SpaceX has requested NASA to provide it with…
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Climate change could pose danger for Muslim pilgrimage
CAMBRIDGE, MA– For the world’s estimated 1.8 billion Muslims — roughly one-quarter of the world population — making a pilgrimage…
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Microgravity used to create cells with stem cell properties
Chennai– Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have found that subjecting cancer cells to microgravity results in the…
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An asteroid will hit Earth and we’ll have no defence: Musk
San Francisco– A huge asteroid will eventually hit the humanity and there will be no way out, SpaceX CEO Elon…
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Czech scientists find way to extract water from air
Prague– A team of scientists from the Technical University in Prague have said they found a method of extracting water…
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Building city on Mars could cost up to $10 trillion: Elon Musk
San Francisco– SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has not stopped at lofty talks of colonising Mars. He has even estimated the…
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Opinion: Political Gamesmanship and the 30 Meter Telescope on Manua Kea Mountain in Hawaii
By Devendra Dubey BOSTON–When the mountain Manua Kea was selected by a team of eminent astronomers, as the site for…
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