The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers prepare for future missions there. NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile ...
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Viral Videos Today: Trump to MS Dhoni videos
Here are today’s viral videos and the one-year-old video of faceoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Tawang border is trending. See them here: https://youtube.com/shorts/6gE–usZAKY?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/S5M8UVX4VOg?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/5YWxh6oa8Xc?feature=share
Read More »Subcutaneous fat emerges as a protector of Womans’ brains
Womans’ propensity to deposit more fat in places like their hips, buttocks and the backs of their arms, so-called subcutaneous fat, is protective against brain inflammation, which can result in problems like dementia and stroke, at least until menopause, scientists report. Males of essentially any age have a greater propensity to deposit fat around the major organs in their abdominal ...
Read More »Researchers uncover factors linked to optimal aging
What are the keys to “successful” or optimal aging? A new study followed more than 7000 middle aged and older Canadians for approximately three years to identify the factors linked to well-being as we age. They found that those who were female, married, physically active and not obese and those who had never smoked, had higher incomes, and who did ...
Read More »Earth’s inner core may be oxygen-rich
Oxygen is the key substance for life and one of the most abundant elements in the Earth. However, it’s still unknown whether oxygen is present and in which form in the inner core with extreme high pressure and temperature conditions, and almost composed of pure iron. Scientists co-led by Dr. Jin Liu from HPSTAR (the Center for High Pressure Science ...
Read More »Watching water droplets merge on the International Space Station
Understanding how water droplets spread and coalesce is essential for scenarios in everyday life, such as raindrops falling off cars, planes, and roofs, and for applications in energy generation, aerospace engineering, and microscale cell adhesion. However, these phenomena are difficult to model and challenging to observe experimentally. In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Cornell University and Clemson University designed ...
Read More »Bharat Jodo Yatra: Why Raghuram Rajan singled out for joining Yatra
Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi in Rajasthan on Wednesday as many celebrities have joined the 3,500-km long Yatra in the course of last 98 days. But Rajan was singled out first time when BJP’s IT Cell chief Amit Malviya said the former RBI governor “fancies” himself as the next Manmohan Singh. Raghuram ...
Read More »College girls clash to bully getting it back: Today’s Viral videos [Watch]
Here’s a video that is going viral today on Twitter by Bahar Ke Kalesh that has garnered over 4.7 million views with over hundreds of likes. It shows how a girl in a white t-shirt is seen interacting with another and the second girl blows a punch on her face. Annoyed, the girl turned violent and started hitting the other ...
Read More »Missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 ‘deliberately crashed’ in 2014, shows new evidence
The sudden disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014 was a deliberate attempt to crash the plane, said a report by The Independent, citing the discovery of a landing gear door of the ill-fated plane by a Madagascar fisherman. It further, suggested that the pilot “deliberately downed” the aircraft resulting in the loss of lives of ...
Read More »UN chief calls for de-escalation of India-China border tensions
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for de-escalating the India-China border tensions after reports of army clashes in Arunachal Pradesh. His spokesperson Stephane Guterres said: “We call for de-escalation to ensure that the tensions along the border in that area do not grow.” India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that on Friday a physical scuffle took place between ...
Read More »Tawang Border Clash with China: US says closely monitoring situation
Following border clashes between India and China at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, the US said that it “strongly opposes” any unilateral attempt to advance territorial claims. US State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at the daily briefing that the US is “closely” monitoring the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the aftermath of clashes and is ...
Read More »Update on MBBS & PG seats in Indian Medical Colleges
The update shows that there is 67% increase in Medical Colleges from 387 to 648 or 87% increase in MBBS seats from 51,348 to 96,077 and 105% increase in PG seats from 31,185 to 64,059. Currently, there are 22 AIIMS approved with 19 AIIMS of them having undergraduate courses. A total of 96,077 MBBS seats are available in the country out ...
Read More »China building towns along Arunachal border, show satellite images
Amid border incursions with the Chinese soldiers coming with barbed sticks near the LAC on December 9, satellite images show that China has built villages on their side. As per a bilateral pact, weapons are not to be borne by soldiers on the border. Along the India-China border abutting Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang, the PLA army has also constructed a road, ...
Read More »Delhi Govt kicks off ‘Rain Basera’ for homeless and poor people as harsh winter sets in
As the winter is setting in, the Delhi government is taking up the Winter Action Plan to rescue the homeless from the chill and provide them accommodation and food in ‘Rain Baseras’. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday reviewed the plan with senior officials of various departments concerned. The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DSUIB) has set up ...
Read More »Bengaluru to miss spectacular view of Geminid meteor shower tonight
Sky watchers can witness a meteor shower peaking between Tuesday night and well into the early hours of Wednesday, Dec 12-13 night as the Geminid meteor shower comes around this time of the year when several meteoroids, left behind by ‘rock comet’ 3200 Phaethon, enter the earth’s atmosphere. While Bengaluru-based Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium is organising an event to watch the ...
Read More »Pune up in arms, holds protests over slurs on Chhatrapati Shivaji
In a massive show of anger, more than 80 political parties and social organisations staged a silent march in Pune on Tuesday to protest the repeated slurs on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Several major areas of the city, including wholesale markets observed a shutdown and more than two lakh protesters joined the march sporting saffron flags, black banners and posts, demanding ...
Read More »Cisco joins Big Tech Layoff, begins firing 4,000 Employees
Joining the Big Tech layoff season, networking major Cisco has reportedly started laying off 5 per cent of its workforce, which is more than 4,000 employees as a part of its “rebalancing” act and “rightsizing certain businesses”. Silicon Valley Business Journal reported that many workers took to TheLayoff.com and Blind portal to post about the job cuts at the company. ...
Read More »Edward Stone: 50 Years at NASA ends, but his brainchild Voyager’s Project goes on
Stone’s remarkable tenure on NASA’s longest-operating mission spans decades of historic discoveries and firsts. Edward Stone has retired as the project scientist for NASA’s Voyager mission a half-century after taking on the role. Stone accepted scientific leadership of the historic mission in 1972, five years before the launch of its two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Under his guidance, the Voyagers explored the four ...
Read More »Webb offers never-before-seen details of early universe, distant galaxy MACS0647-JD
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was specially designed to detect the faint infrared light from very distant galaxies and give astronomers a glimpse at the early universe. The nature of galaxies during this early period of our universe is not well known nor understood. But with the help of gravitational lensing by a cluster of galaxies in the foreground, faint ...
Read More »Using chirality for faster, smaller, and more efficient data storage devices
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are pursuing a completely new and unconventional strategy to improve the way data can be processed and – in particular – stored. The team members, based in Mainz and Jerusalem, have come up with the idea of bringing together two different forms of chirality to develop new data storage systems that are faster, ...
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