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Sri Lanka's invite to Dalai Lama has led to an evil Chinese curse falling
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to The Sunday Times, it is understandable that China should tremble with even a distant prospect of living incarnate of Tibet's religious oppression visiting a foreign country as it resurrects China's invasion and occupation of the once free mountainous Buddhist Kingdom on the 'roo
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Free and independent media under Taliban is a distant dream: Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Afghan media is struggling to survive under Taliban as numerous radio and TV stations, as well as news agencies, have closed and as per estimates more than 6,000 journalists have lost their jobs, Afghan-based news agency Khaama Press reported.
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China to strengthen diplomatic, economic ties with 140 partner nations thr
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Media reports say that since the rise of China, its broader and integrative geo-economic agenda is seeking to enhance its reach into distant markets and trade enterprises. The ultimate objective is to provide a non-US alternative for the world's countries.
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light-years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million
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Study sheds light on how the brain stores remote fear memory
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past, a few months to decades ago. A University of California, Riverside, mouse study published in Nature Neuroscience has now spelt out the fundamental mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear me
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TN: Storm Warning Cage 3 mounted at Pamban port to warn of impending dange
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
To warn of the danger of distant storms, 'Storm Warning Cage 3' was mounted at Pamban port in Rameswaram on Monday.
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Study finds remote fear memories stored in memory neurons in brain
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A remote fear memory is a recollection of painful experiences that took place in the far past, from a few months to decades. The underlying mechanisms by which the brain consolidates distant terror memories have now been clarified by a University of California, Riverside mouse study that was
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Webb telescope 'Pearls' project brings exquisite views of distant galaxies
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
For decades, the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes have provided us with spectacular images of galaxies. This all changed when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched in December 2021 and successfully completed commissioning during the first half of 2022. For astro
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Scientists discover rare red spiral galaxy population from early universe
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Spiral galaxies represent one of the most spectacular features in our universe. Among them, spiral galaxies in the distant universe contain significant information about their origin and evolution. However, we have had a limited understanding of these galaxies due to them being too distant t
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Researchers reveal that meteorites could have given Earth building blocks
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is that meteorites delivered amino acids life's building blocks to our planet. Now, researchers h
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This tiny, hidden galaxy provides a peek into the past
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Peeking out from behind the glare of a bright foreground star, astronomers have uncovered the most extraordinary example yet of a nearby galaxy with characteristics that are more like galaxies in the distant, early universe. Only 1,200 light-years across, the tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131-31 has
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Astronomers observe intra-group light, an elusive glow between distant gal
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto a group of galaxies and the faint light between them known as 'intra-group light' to characterise the stars that dwell there.
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